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.

[Guidster]

Originally posted by thomas
The hack is working fine for me, but I am still wondering how to display subfora.

Go back and read my posts on how I got subforums to display.

[keress]

I'm just now looking at this and have maybe a stupid question. If I set up this archive and that's what Google archives, how will people be redirected to the actual forum? Sorry if I've missed something that's already explained here.

[GlitterKill]

Finally got it to work...

http://www.pimprig.com/forums/archive

THANKS!

[pseudocode]

Originally posted by SkuZZy


Which links?

The links to the forums and topics on the archive page.

Originally posted by SkuZZy
[B] Can you provide a URL to your archive and if possible paste your config.php file here. ]

64.224.111.213/forums/archive

config.php:

<?php

################################################## ############
### vB Easy Archive v2.1 - Released on December 29th, 2002 ###
## Scripts created by Xenon and modified/released by SkuZZy ##
### Copyright info MUST stay on the bottom of all scripts ####
#### Visit http://www.vbulletin.org for updated versions! ####
################################################## ############

// Full PATH to your global.php file

chdir("../");
require("global.php");


// Title of your website/forums... used for <title> tags on most pages

$title="Georgia Sportbike Association";

// Forums URL - Directory your vbulletin forums are in (NO TRAILING SLASH!)

$forumurl="http://64.224.111.213/forums";

// Archive URL - The location of these scripts (NO TRAILING SLASH!)

$archiveurl="http://64.224.111.213/forums/archive";

?>

I also tried it with absolute paths for the $forumurl and $archiveurl variables.

Originally posted by SkuZZy
Did you upload the .htaccess file?

Yes I did.

Thanks for your help!

[hamed]

Very nice hack. Thanks many thanks.

[thomas]

Originally posted by Guidster
Go back and read my posts on how I got subforums to display.

Sorry, I completely missed your post. Much obliged!

[hamed]

Is it possible to activate VB codes in archive files?

[DrkFusion]

Wierd, why did google not index all my archive? Just the front page

[cobradude]

Originally posted by cobradude
I'm using w2k & IIS. My archives show top level only, but when clicking on one of the links, I get a 404 file not found error, which I would assume has to do with the files with no extensions not executing as php (limitation due to .htaccess not working).

Is there a work around for this on iis?

Thanks for any help.

Anyone?

[NTLDR]

Thank you so much for this hack SkuZZy, google seems to be enjoying itself on my site