Board Optimization - PubSubHubBub for vBulletin 4.x - Realtime Indexation of New Threads!

PubSubHubBub for vB 4.x.x

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About PubSubHubBub (PuSH):
PubSubHubBub is a new protocol for realtime indexation of webpages. It works by pushing new content to a distributed network of PuSH compatible servers, rather than relying on a crawler hitting the board to find new content.


Is it similar to Ping-o-Matic?:
Similar yes, but PuSH works in a slightly different way, and is getting some heavyweight support from big players like wordpress who have included it on every wp.com blog.


Where can I learn More about PubSubHubBub?:
Try the official google documentation for full information.
Alternatively, watch this video by google.


How do I install it?
Simple, upload the files in the upload.zip to your forum root, and import the enclosed XML in the adminCP where you would normally import products.


A Word about Copyright:
The file push.php is NOT my copyright, it is infact copyright of InternetBrands Inc (the owners of vBulletin). It is mentioned in the file itself that it is not my copyright, and it is ONLY FOR USE BY ACTIVE LICENSE HOLDERS. I am distributing this with consent of both vBulletin and InternetBrands (see the next section for more details)


The History of This Plugin:
Its a plugin I was never going to release publicly, I use it on my seo forum and was quite happy leaving it at that. I experienced a measurable increase in spider activity, and time to indexing after getting it working for the first time.

However - D.Bradley @ Internet Brands got in touch and asked me to release it for the community.

I would also like to thank Fabian Schonholz of vBulletin.com for reviewing it and allowing the re-publication of the copyrighted material within push.php
- without those two people evangelising this plugin, I would not have released it publicly.


How do I tell if its working?
Thats proving to be a bit of a problem, the only testing tool that Im aware of for PuSH hasnt been giving stable results for the last few weeks, and other PuSH clients like the ones within wordpress.com blogs are also giving inconsistant results. I am however in touch with google who are reviewing the plugin.

In the meantime, I suggest you install the plugin, and keep an eye on two factors, 1) spider activity in google webmaster tools, and 2) time to indexation of new threads (by manual checks for now). As soon as I get some joy back from them I will update this post.


Can I remove the powered by.... accreditation link?
No. Doing so invalidates the license by which I am distributing this software.

If you must use a version without the accreditation link, I am selling this plugin in a GOLD version for just ?10 over at my plugin shop: http://seoforums.org/cart.php.

Please note, if you are using the GOLD version, you still need an active vb license to download the push.php file, which is only available on this page at vb.org.


A Word About Support:
I sometimes go a few weeks or more without coming back to vb.org so the best place to get in touch is either on http://twitter.com/seoforumsorg or on http://seoforums.org - and PM me on "MOGmartin".

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by combs

Slows down the quite a bit, had to uninstall, submitting posts took an extra 2 seconds each

Been wondering about this ....

Can anyone else confirm it?

Thanks ..

Regards,
Doug

[Videx]

Is that what the delay is? I don't really mind the delay, but why would this mod do that? Is it happening for all my members?

[The Rocketeer]

how well does this work on the latest vb and vbseo?
can anyone confirm its SEO capability or an increase

[DNN]

I'll hold off on this one until I learn more about it

[The Rocketeer]

seriously looking for some good input from the author.

How does this plugin help my content in google search engine. lets say I create an article based on a specific subject and title. Lets say its a recent news of some sort, but it takes hours for google to index it, sometimes even a day till I can find my site on google using the keywords.... So if I use this, will that get improve drastically..

like moments after I make the post I go on to google and search the keywords and select "latest"

[Mukashi]

Some time recently (if not today) the copyright footer of this addon appears to have been replaced with the following lines.

bring roger to Spain for a Mozcation.
C'mon Mozzers, you know spain is full of "increible!"

The word "Mozcation" was set to a specific URL.

I'm assuming this is something the author has done for personal SEO purposes (I understand there was some SEO competition related to this), but quite frankly I find it unacceptable. It's not only a breach of trust, it seems the way you've gone about this is a huge XSS security vulnerability for any site using this. It's pulling code from an external source without validation. You could've shoved practically anything at our users.

[BadgerDog]

Uninstalled. ...

Regards,
Doug

[Videx]

FYI: To uninstall you also want to delete the two files in upload.zip from your forum root - push.php and pushapi.php .

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by Videx

FYI: To uninstall you also want to delete the two files in upload.zip from your forum root - push.php and pushapi.php .

Thanks ... :up:

Regards,
Doug

[sportsfroma2]

Originally Posted by Mukashi

Some time recently (if not today) the copyright footer of this addon appears to have been replaced with the following lines.


The word "Mozcation" was set to a specific URL.

I'm assuming this is something the author has done for personal SEO purposes (I understand there was some SEO competition related to this), but quite frankly I find it unacceptable. It's not only a breach of trust, it seems the way you've gone about this is a huge XSS security vulnerability for any site using this. It's pulling code from an external source without validation. You could've shoved practically anything at our users.

Yeah- if this was included as part of some update, I guess I could understand to some degree... But this is kind of like remotely change our footer- not cool in my opinion..

So although I like the mod, I just don't know what you're going to do next- starting tomorrow you might be linking our sites to some adult content or stuff like that.. Can't take that risk.

Will have to uninstall, I guess

Originally Posted by Videx

FYI: To uninstall you also want to delete the two files in upload.zip from your forum root - push.php and pushapi.php .

Thanks- would have totally forgot about those files