vbSpiderFriend - Search Engine Friendliness

I am tired of my 200,000 posts not being listed in Google. I was inspired by phpbuilder.com this morning and I wrote:

vbSpiderFriend - the search engine indexer for all of your posts

Purpose: Allow search engine spiders to crawl a linked list of all of your posts.

Project Requirements:

-Friendly URLs (no query strings)
-Good dynamic meta tags
-Never have to touch the script again.. It is Y3K compliant, simply re-submit to the engines to update your listings

Install Requirements:

-vBulletin 1.x or 2.x
-about 10 minutes


1) Download the attached Zip.

2) Open class.mysql.php and put your database login info at the top.

3) Create a new directory called archive under your forum, like /forum/archive

4) Open the included .htaccess and change the Error 404 to your new archive path.

5) Open index.php and change the self-explanatory variables at the top of the file.

6) Upload all 3 files to your archive directory.

7) Submit /forum/archive/index.php to search engines and watch em crawl


DISCLAIMER: I don't use 2.x but I checked the schema and this should work fine.

NOTES: This uses ErrorDocument and query string parsing to get the variables needed. I do not have the time or energy to troubleshoot this if it does not work on your server. Sorry!

[LanciaStratos]

Could someone explain what is so bad about Google considering a page to be "cloaked"? I'd really like to set that $refresh option to "1", but I'm worried about what kind of effect it could have on my forums being indexed.

Never mind, I found my answer here... http://www.google.com/webmasters/faq.html

[eva2000]

had to remove this hack as it allowed people to snoop in to private forums via entering forum id numbers which were not displayed (invisible) on the page listings

[djr]

George,

This worked for me:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...959#post181959

- djr

[eternal]

does this work with the newest version of vbulletin?

[djr]

Installed here (and working: pdaclub, dutch language) on vBulletin 2.2.1, so the answer is YES

[eternal]

I installed the script, it seems to work, however, i get the error

The requested URL /forums/archive/1 was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

when i click on a particular link.. even though i see all the catagories for my website

[M.h.f]

thx

[eternal]

please anyone?

[qwaz]

Same here, I've edited access.conf to allowoverride all too.

Still nothing.

[fury]

I DID IT!

Excellent hack! I added page navigation to it though, cause there are some huge long threads on my site and it could kill the server to select all the posts in them.