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.

[hvacr]

Originally Posted by SkuZZy

I'll be releasing a version TODAY that doesn't require mod_rewrite and will have all the same features. It will be version 2.0!

It does however require .htaccess. But....... good news. 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

do you have a current google search hack?

Thanks

[Sal Collaziano]

This seems to be working for me but I get one of these at the top and bottom of the page:

Warning: main(): stream does not support seeking in......

[hvacr]

Ok, so you get 1 zillion spots on google, whats that
mean? abosoulely nothing.. sure I am indexed on
google and some others, so? so far, the only way
they can find me is if the EXACT domain name is
entered, then big deal, your listing will come up,
what does that mean? that means that everyone has to
already know your exact domain to pull your listing,
but if thats the case, why even search it at all,
i have tried countless words that surround my
domain name, NOTHING, pulls everything ones and
his brothers site, but not mine... unless you can get
number 1 in all engines, you are nothing on the net.

so how come i can find my site only pulling my
domain name, but not with keywords, if you
cant find my site with keywords then you will
never be found but by accident.

I have had 1 domain for years, and it is just
now being indexed by some of the engines, last
but not least, if you do not enter the exact
domain name, you will never find me.

so what if you are indexed 1 million times...
it really means nothing if you cant be
found by keywords...

[atomic fireball]

hvacr, what's your exact site and forum url?

Just because you can't find your site on google by doing keyword searches, doesn't mean others will have the same problem. There could be a few reasons:

1. You're not doing a proper keyword search
2. You're not giving google the proper amount of time to properly index your site

Again, post your site and forum, and let us see if we can get some searches to pop up on google.

[hvacr]

Originally Posted by atomic fireball

hvacr, what's your exact site and forum url?

Just because you can't find your site on google by doing keyword searches, doesn't mean others will have the same problem. There could be a few reasons:

Its from experiance, and knowing from being listed
for 2 years, and seeing only 5 vistors a month.

1. You're not doing a proper keyword search
2. You're not giving google the proper amount of time to properly index your site

Again, post your site and forum, and let us see if we can get some searches to pop up on google.

although, this is the newest site that i am
using with this script, the funny thing is
that one listing has shown for the actual
site itself, but not from the script...

http://www.forumschat.net

right now the only way that i have
found it is with direct domain search on google.

[atomic fireball]

hvacr, I just checked your site, and you have a total of 8 posts for your entire forum. That's the answer. I'm guessing you simply don't have enough content to have your actual forum pages show up in google.

Google may spider your pages, but they don't always include all pages in their index. Only google really knows the true criteria as to what they use to have pages show up. With only 8 posts on your forum, most of which have less than 30 words or so, google probably just doesn't feel that it adds to their engine to have your forum listed at this time.

[FlyBoy73]

I have been using SkuZZy's archive hack since March of this year and it has been wonderful.. BUT now I am getting worried.. What is going to happen to our links when we upgrade to vb3?

Please see and respond in this thread: (It may apply to all archive hacks)

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...353#post450353

[Freezerator]

They all will be renewed, because vb3 has his own archive wich can be spidered.

[FlyBoy73]

I understand that, but if the links in the archive are different at all, wouldn't the Search Engine drop the then dead links and start re-indexing the new?

Does SkuZZy's archive hack archive the exact same way as Teck's and what vb3 is using?

[slinky]

Originally Posted by Sal Collaziano

This seems to be working for me but I get one of these at the top and bottom of the page:

Warning: main(): stream does not support seeking in......

I have the same problem:

Warning: main(): stream does not support seeking in /home/mydomain/public_html/forums/archive/index.php on line 116

Has something to do with the inlcude files so I just put in the raw code for the header and footer and works fine without the header.php and footer.php. Small inconvenience.