vB Easy Archive FINAL - Search Engine Spiderable Hack! Get your posts listed @ google

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[high]HOW GOOD DOES THIS HACK WORK??? >>> [/high]Over 29,000 pages spidered since January 1st!!!!!!! Visit http://www3.google.com/search?hl=en&...e+SkuZZy+Xenon to see all the pages this script has helped get spidered into google!

Sub-Forums have been added!

Final Version Released - February 10th

I added sub-forums in this final version, one of the most requested features to be added... but, sad to say... this will be the final version. I never got a chance to add some of the cool features I said, but I feel this archive has served it's purpose and hopefully will continue to do so for all the die hard users who stick with vb 2.2.9. I decided to make this the final version because vb3 is coming out soon and I think this archive is the best archive currently out. Sure, there are more flashy ones, but this one gets the job done and gets results. Hopefully this hack will live on for a while.
Edit by Xenon: Whenever there is a problem, i'll take a look at it, and perhaps add a feature or two

About this hack

This hack will help get all your threads listed in google and other search engines and get your threads easily spidered! It works by creating an archive and turning all your posts into .html format. It doesn't actually create the .html files though, but google thinks they are real! It uses mod_Rewrite. If you don't have mod_Rewrite, you can't use the scripts (sorry).

What does it do?

The purpose of this hack are to get your keywords from your forums listed in google and get people visiting them! Since these are all pure text and don't use tables or excess font tags, they are very friendly on bandwidth! This will display all your files in a nice text format that google will absolutely love! Visit the online demo below to see it in action!

Online Demos

To view a demo of this script, visit some of the "live" demos at the following sites:

http://www.destee.com/forums/archives
http://www.thrillnetwork.com/boards/archive/
http://www.truecountry.com/forums/history/
http://www.strategy-forum.de/easy_archive/index.php
http://www.pimprig.com/forums/archive/
http://www.jokersrewards.com/forum/history/
http://board.midibuddy.net/archive2/
http://x-mencomics.com/xfan/forums/archive/
http://www.macfora.com/forums/archive/
http://www.rcgroups.com/archive/
http://www.codewebs.com/forums/archive/
http://www.lcdmod.com/forums/archive/
http://www.source-forums.org/vB/archive/
http://www.subduck.com/history/
http://www.thesistersthree.com/archive/
http://www.a51forums.com/archive/
http://www.yes-its-free.com/easyarchive/
http://www.wcgateway.com/forums/archive
http://www.toyotaimportsforum.co.uk/forum/archive/
http://www.prisontalk.com/forums/archive/
http://www.gamesites200.com/archive/
http://www.allthingsmoto.com/archive
http://www.2spoemas.com/foros/archive/
http://www.mysticwicks.com/archive/

Requirements

Apache
vBulletin 2.x
mod_mime installed
.htaccess
5 minutes of your time...


Known Problems/Confusion

Mod_mime - You will NEED mod_mime to run these scripts. Mod_mime is a free module which enables a directive called "ForceType". This allows you to use the .htaccess file included to force your files into php mode, which allows simple URL's, without .php in them. If you can see the front page of your archive, but get an error page when you click on any links then this is your problem. To fix it, you will need to install mod_mime, or ask your host to do it. It's a FREE module. For more information, visit http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_mime.html

Private forums - Private forums are NOT shown and they will NOT be spidered. Some people say the private forums show up, that is because you are logged in as the admin and the archive uses permissions. So anyone who has permission to view the private forums on your forums, will beable to view them on the archives also. But if you log out of your account OR log into an account that doesn't have access to them, then you won't beable to view them

Credits

Biggest credit goes to Xenon who originally coded the scripts. He is the man! Also thanks to everyone who tested it out for me and kept bugging me about releasing it (when I was too lazy to).

Agreement

By using these scripts & installing them, you agree to leave the small (virtually unnoticable) copyright text and links at the bottom of all pages. You also agree to leave jelsoft's copyright there as well. You can modify the scripts much as you want, but this portion must remain intact (links must stay) and visible. This is all we ask

Download Final

To install, just download the file below and open the "_readme.txt" file. All is explained there. Installation should only take a couple of minutes. If you have problems with this script, post them in this thread and I will try and get around to answering them.

[SkuZZy]

Just wanted to give a heads up to everyone. I'd recommend anyone planning on installing this hack does it immediately and puts a link to the archive on their main page (or a page that is frequently spidered by google) because... the google dance will be happening in the next 1-3 days. The "google dance" is when google updates all the links and adds new pages. So bottom line, if you get your archive up before the dance, then your archive pages will be in google NEXT dance (only 1 month) but if you miss this dance, then your archive pages might not be in google for 2 months.

[freeshares1]

i am getting the following error any idea's?

Warning: Unable to access ./admin/config.php in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/Jokersrewards.com/httpdocs/forum/global.php on line 129

line 129 is this part

// ###################### Start init #######################

unset($dbservertype);
unset($debug);
//load config
require('./admin/config.php');
if ($debug != 1) {
unset($showqueries);
unset($explain);
}

[thomas]

I installed the hack today, at the moment I'm literally invaded by Inktomi's spider (50 instances on Who's Online). How could I get rid of the "Unknown Location: /archive/topic/1250.html" messages displayed by online.php?

[David Bott]

LOL...I would love to do something like this, however, with 1.6 million posts on-line, it could become a server issue in directory storage. Meaning, number of files in one directory. Darn!

David
http://www.avsforum.com

[NTLDR]

It doesn't actually create a file for each thread, it just seems like there are

[SkuZZy]

yeah it doesn't actually create the files. However, your files would still be huge. I am working on releasing the ability to split pages in v3.0. IE: Only 250 threads would be displayed per page, because google only spiders the first 99kb of each page.

[juaniquillo]

Originally posted by SkuZZy
Tommorow, I will be releasing a version that doesn't require mod_rewrite OR .htaccess

The downside to that version will be that URL.s will look like http://www.whatever.com/archive/topic.php/400.html instead of just "topic/400.html". But it still works

Skuzzy & Xenon, thank you so very much for this hack.

Skuzzy, I remember reading somewhere that google doesn't like the slash + something else after a dynamic file extension... ie. slash after abc.php like "abc.php/abc.html"

As a matter of fact, that might be why v.3 new indexing system is not being pickedup by google now. Just thouhgt i'd let you know

Thanks again, this hack is awsome

[SkuZZy]

Originally posted by juaniquillo


Skuzzy & Xenon, thank you so very much for this hack.

Skuzzy, I remember reading somewhere that google doesn't like the slash + something else after a dynamic file extension... ie. slash after abc.php like "abc.php/abc.html"

As a matter of fact, that might be why v.3 new indexing system is not being pickedup by google now. Just thouhgt i'd let you know

Thanks again, this hack is awsome

Yeah, having .php in the URL affects how it's spidered I think. Once vb3 is released, i'll just use mod_rewrite to take the .php out of the vb3 archive, then I will strip the archive down and remove all the pointless javascript junk. Why waste bandwidth on an archive? ???

[subduck]

finally got it to work!
www.subduck.com/history

[SkuZZy]

Originally posted by subduck
finally got it to work!
www.subduck.com/history

Do you mind telling me what the problem was you were having? Other people might be having the same problem. Or if you don't feel like posting it in public, PM it to me