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.

[glenvw]

Originally posted by cklaszlo
All I know is last week Google went nuts for 5 full days on our archive. And then this past weekend Inktomisearch crawled for 2 days.

Question for anybody:

What system do you recommend I get for accurate traffic stats? I have a server with several sites but really only care about monitoring about 3 major domains. Secondly, when these folks say they can actually see the crawl from Google and Inktomi, are they just watching hits or what do they (you ) use to watch this?

[w596]

Originally posted by wooolF[RM]
It is like comparing teck's mercedes with a beatle

I think it's just a matter of preferrence, I think they are both great hacks.

I installed this one first and it does everything that I need so I'll be keeping it.

Google and Inktomi both attacked my site after installing this hack. Works Great!!!

BTW... I happen to like beetles, oh yeah and The Beatles too!

[cklaszlo]

I do like that Teck's mod splits long threads into multiple pages. Any way of doing that with this mod?

[rishel]

We got it to work, but, its weird. We type the url in to the /archive directory and it sits and sits for literally 3 minutes, then displays the posts, but has errors.

It says this:

Warning: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Temporary failure in name resolution in /home/integrit/public_html/contents/forums/archive/index.php on line 99

Warning: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Temporary failure in name resolution in /home/integrit/public_html/contents/forums/archive/index.php on line 112

Any ideas what is up with this?

[cklaszlo]

for simple stats to see if google is crawling is look at /online.php if you are loged in to see the ips you can see which engines are on the site.

[Bally]

Originally posted by freeshares1


// Full PATH to your global.php file
chdir("../");
require("global.php");

That`s the thing people need to change in the config.php when they only get a blank page...

I tried more than 1 hour but finally i found this posting.
Thanks a lot freeshares1 !

[Erwin]

Wow, another archive hack. Great job, people!

[ladyfyre]

Well i finally have this KIND OF working (it did not work with the correct full path given, but then did work when i used the above trick of putting the change dir line above it....which is pretty weird).

However, now there is still a problem. It shows top level forums just fine, but my forums are listed on the main page by categories, which show the subforums for that area after you enter the category. Here, when entering a category, it shows only the footer....no body at all.

So it is apparently TRYING to do something with it...but the code here doesn't seem to have taken categories into consideration.

[SkuZZy]

v2.3 has been released. The new version fixes the chdir problems that many were having. If you were stumped with the "blank page error", please download the latest 2.3 version. It fixes that problem. I am working on v3.0 and hopefully it will be done. New version will feature sub-forums displayed, as well as multiple pages (for large forums and threads).

SkuZZy

[w596]

Kewl... I'm looking forward to trying v3.0