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About Developer · **Released**: 04-29-2001

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!

Sergio68 · #**292** 10-30-2002, 10:02 AM

Please :ermm:

SloppyGoat · #**293** 11-02-2002, 02:09 PM

This won't make hidden forums be spidered too, will it? NM, it doesn't sound like it will work, from what I read above. :dead:

grooveh · #**294** 11-03-2002, 02:23 PM

Sergio: Are you running this on an NT box? I had the exact same thing happen to me on my forums, until I switched hosting to a UNIX box. As soon as I did that, my vBSpiderFriend worked like a charm.

I know thats not specific help with your problem...but I think the problem lies moreover with your host, and not the script.

good luck

Sergio68 · #**295** 11-04-2002, 12:40 AM

Yes, I'm on windows 2000 server sistems and I'm hosted by myself

About the errors, I mean, there is something wrong with the variables?

And why I can't see directory /archive/1 .../2 ...3/ ?

grooveh · #**296** 11-05-2002, 01:59 AM

its all tied around the way the code works on your windoze system. I think specifically with how the win system deals with the .htaccess

I had the exact same problem as you...to the letter. It was fixed only when I switched to a unix based system.

AWS · #**297** 11-05-2002, 10:22 AM

Are you using Apache with w2k?
If you are I can help you get it to work. I have it working on my forum.

Prince · #**298** 11-07-2002, 07:00 PM

for anyone that cares, this hack does not work, meaning Google (the only search spider that means anything) will not spider your threads with this hack installed.

I have had it installed for 2 months now, and Google did not pick up any more of my vB than it had before.

pekay · #**299** 11-07-2002, 10:51 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Prince
for anyone that cares, this hack does not work, meaning Google (the only search spider that means anything) will not spider your threads with this hack installed.

I have had it installed for 2 months now, and Google did not pick up any more of my vB than it had before.

You sure?

Damn..

Sergio68 · #**300** 11-08-2002, 12:14 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by AWS
Are you using Apache with w2k?
If you are I can help you get it to work. I have it working on my forum.

No, IIS5 ...

Sergio68 · #**301** 11-08-2002, 12:29 AM

<a href="http://www.bodyweb.it/vbullettin/archive/" target="_blank">http://www.bodyweb.it/vbullettin/archive/</a>

Now seems Ok, but where are the directory /2 /13 /7 /.....

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