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.

[PurpleCow]

Lets say, i have my forums at http://forums.mydomain.com and want to install this hack in http://archive.mydomain.com . is it possible to do so ??

Thanks for any help.

Cheers

[slinky]

Originally Posted by PurpleCow

Lets say, i have my forums at http://forums.mydomain.com and want to install this hack in http://archive.mydomain.com . is it possible to do so ??

Thanks for any help.

Cheers

It's the same thing. A subdomain merely points to another directory on a server. The forums subdomain is probably a directory off of the domain -- I think of it like an alias. I'm waiting to get bashed for my simple definition.

[PurpleCow]

Okay - hope i get another opinion abt that !

This hack sounds very interesting than anyother similiar archiving hack, simply b'cos it doesn't have and url characters after a file extension like .php while other archiving hacks have directorues or files after a .php extension.

So, further to this...isn't it possible to have thread descriptions, posting date, number of posts and number of threads ( for forum home ) in the archive also. It would be much better.

Also, someone take a look at dbforums.com/archive. fastforward muct be coding a custom hack which is very very interesting. I wish, this particular hack also developes into one such !

Thanks much
Cheers

[vdich]

Hi

I have the same problem like many other peoples, but no hack work....

I have use perfect the vB Easy Archive FINAL before i change my Hoster.

Since 2 weeks i change my provider, but now only work the index-Site from http://www.informatikboard.ch/archive , the Sub-Forum dont work....

mod_mime is install:
LoadModule mime_module modules/mod_mime.so

PLEASE HELP ME !!!!

thanks.

[PhoenixBB]

This doesn't appear to have worked well for me, traffic-wise.

Everything installed fine and I first submitted to all the search engines in September. About a week later I did get a lot of bots online - most seemed to be Inktomi or AltaVista, I only saw Google a couple of times. I did notice that most of the time they didn't go into the archive even though I submitted that url (and have a link to it on my homepage and forum). However that was it really. I resubmitted over the next couple of months - and have just done so now - but only get a couple of bots (not google) come around.

I checked to find how many listings I got - a mere 32. This was about the same as I had before I installed this hack, and none are from the archive. Also like the guy above said, I have to type my url to get them. None of the keywords bring me up. If people know my url they ain't gonna look for me on the search engine, so I'm beginning to wonder what the point is.

On the rare occasions the bots appeared to look in the archive in the online.php I never saw a 'clean' url listed, but one with a session cookie in it. I thought it wasn't supposed to do that?

Anyway, it's been 3mths now and for whatever reason Google isn't archiving me. As my forum isn't doing brilliantly at the moment I was hoping for more traffic from the Search Engines, but that isn't happening. I've just submitted the archive url and the home page again, but I'm probably not gonna bother anymore.

Aside from the fact it got me no traffic, the archive is cool to read if my connection is ever sluggish.

Phoenix

[vdich]

I have the reason, my provider must change some things on my host.....

[n9com]

installed, thanks: http://www.talkxbox.com/forum/archive/

[vdich]

here too with header and footer

www.informatikboard.ch/archive

[Stephan Whelan]

Hi everyone - has anyone been able to code "What's New" not to display "Unknown" location whenever someone is looking at the archive?

[SkuZZy]

Just stopping in to say hi, long time since ive been here. Glad to see people are still installing this It's perfect for those people who decide to stick with vb2. Personally I am not too fond of vb3 yet, but im sure it will grow on me