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Redirect Archive Search Engine Results To Full Forum · **Released**: 11-18-2006

Another plugin that came about due to my own personal needs and which I thought I'd share.

Description:

What this does is hooks into the top of your forum's archive script (ex: this forum's archive) and checks the referrer that the user's browser sends. If it's from Google, Yahoo, or MSN searches, then it redirects to the full version of the index/forum/thread/whatever.

This is needed (IMO) since the search engines crawl that archive and very often show links to it in search results. However, it's rather ugly and has no reply box, etc. etc., so incoming users shouldn't be seeing it.

This plugin does not block access to the archive though. If you click the archive link in your footer or manually type in the URL to it, you won't notice any difference.

Installation:

Download and install the attached product. It's just a single plugin, but products are more powerful, so I thought I'd wrap it into a whole product.

How do I know if it's working right?

Go to Google and type this into the search box:

Code:

site:http://yoursite.com/forum/archive/

That will bring up a list of links to pages in your archive. When you click on one, your forum should redirect you from the archives to the main forum.

It's still not working right!

Reply to this thread and let me know. I may need to slightly adjust the checks to see if you're coming from a search engine or not.

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Robru · #12 11-20-2006, 07:53 PM

Thanks for this handy hack

Hornstar · #13 11-21-2006, 04:15 AM

nice work, many times i have been confused when i was a novice at vbulletin coming from search engines to see the archive.

nice work.

AdmiralSpock · #14 11-23-2006, 02:25 PM

Thank you so much! This is exactly what I have been looking for!

*installed

nokiacep · #15 11-26-2006, 07:11 PM

good job! thanks

Nick0r · #16 11-30-2006, 04:21 PM

Cloaking is NOT a good idea and can get you banned from google.

Viper007Bond · #17 12-01-2006, 03:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nick0r

Cloaking is NOT a good idea and can get you banned from google.

What's that have to do with my plugin? My plugin has nothing to do with Google's or anyone else's crawl bots.

Nick0r · #18 12-01-2006, 07:05 AM

Showing one thing to google and another thing to a user is called cloaking.

Viper007Bond · #19 12-01-2006, 09:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nick0r

Showing one thing to google and another thing to a user is called cloaking.

I know what it is, I looked it up on Wikipedia.

This doesn't show different things to Google vs. users. Users can view the archive all they want and this doesn't affect bots. This simply makes sure people who found your forum via a search engine always come in to the real thread which is easier to read. Why would Google care about that? It's the exact same content and there's no malicious intent (or even advantage) here.

Veer · #20 01-14-2007, 08:38 PM

Thanks, any idea about how can i disable archive?

Viper007Bond · #21 01-15-2007, 12:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pehchaan

Thanks, any idea about how can i disable archive?

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/m..._group_archive

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