Major Additions - DC SEO vB URL Rewrite

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[DC Seo vB URL Rewrite]

Information

• [high]vBulletin Version:[/high] 3.5.x
• [high]Author:[/high] Dean Clatworthy
• [high]Copyright:[/high] You may use this modification at your own risk. I cannot and will not be held responsible for any damage you may cause to your forums during installation or thereafter. You may not distribute this modification in whole or parts and anyone found doing so faces risk of prosecution. All my modifications are released at vBulletin.org and anyone found releasing them elsewhere also faces risk of prosecution. You may not translate this modification without my prior permission.
• [high]Donations:[/high] I release my modifications for free. If you wish to donate please contact me and I will give you my details. All donations are graciously appreciated.

What does this modification do?
This modification will allow you to automatically have more search engine friendly URLs in your vBulletin. A forum which would normally display as forumdisplay?f=1 will now appear as f1-forumtitle.html and the same with threads. Having keywords in your URL can be of an advantage in search-engine ranking.

Requirements:

• You must have mod_rewrite apache module enabled on your server. Contact your host for more information.
• This will not work well for non-english boards as it strips most non-alpha numeric characters. E.g. ? would be stripped on french boards etc

Installation

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Please read the readme.txt file included in the zip for details on how to install this modification.


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[JTyson]

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=208

[dn lodge]

I've got a question. Is there anyway to get it to display the url as the following...

forum-4.html for the id = 4 forum
forum-15.html for the id = 15 forum
and so on for all my 44 sections?

I'm doing this because I just switched from phpbb, and the url rewrite changed the link to forum-4.html for my forums, just having the id number vary. And since the PR just updated, now all my vB catagories are PR 0. If I can get it to display as forum-4.html for the id = 4 forum the vb catagories will have the PR of the old phpbb catagory.

contact:
aim: daredevilbp
msn: neomania60@hotmail.com

Site with vB: www.dnlodge.com
Olf phpBB site with the old mod rewrite: www.dnlodge.com/phpbb

-Brandon

[tokenyank]

Originally Posted by JTyson

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=208

Thank you sir... Installed it, now just to see if it works!

[deathemperor]

Dean, how about letting none-English boards have this buy just rewrite the url to forum123.html instead of forum123-forum-name.html ?


this one will be happy too:

Originally Posted by dn lodge

I've got a question. Is there anyway to get it to display the url as the following...

forum-4.html for the id = 4 forum
forum-15.html for the id = 15 forum
and so on for all my 44 sections?

I'm doing this because I just switched from phpbb, and the url rewrite changed the link to forum-4.html for my forums, just having the id number vary. And since the PR just updated, now all my vB catagories are PR 0. If I can get it to display as forum-4.html for the id = 4 forum the vb catagories will have the PR of the old phpbb catagory.

contact:
aim: daredevilbp
msn: neomania60@hotmail.com

Site with vB: www.dnlodge.com
Olf phpBB site with the old mod rewrite: www.dnlodge.com/phpbb

-Brandon
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[dn lodge]

yes I would be happy. hehe. Please PM me if there is any existing solution to this. I can pay anyone who can get this to work, so contact me.

[sportsoutlaw]

Is there an estimated time that this will come out of beta?

I have never used any SEO hacks for my forum, but this one looks like it could be very beneficial.

[99SIVTEC]

Yeah, but that kind of defeats the purpose of the hack. SOme search engines still weight heavily on keywords in the url.

Originally Posted by deathemperor

Dean, how about letting none-English boards have this buy just rewrite the url to forum123.html instead of forum123-forum-name.html ?


this one will be happy too:

[dn lodge]

No it dosnt. The hack is supposed to change your urls into html files, which is alot easier for search engines to crawl and index. The kewwrod in the HTML file is basicly just a plus, and may help your rankings alittle.

Originally Posted by 99SIVTEC

Yeah, but that kind of defeats the purpose of the hack. SOme search engines still weight heavily on keywords in the url.

[dn lodge]

Dean, you may want to put this in the donwload file incase anyone else needs to do what I had to do for any reason.

The following insturctions makes...

http://www.dnlodge.com/f14-get-appraised.html
be displayed as...
http://www.dnlodge.com/forum-14.html

I had to do this because I got vb after the PR yupdate, and I wqanted my catagories to have at least a PR of one, and I didnt want to wait 3 more months, so I changed the code to give me the url my mod_rewrite did in my old phpbb.

Heres how I did it...

Here is the .htaccess that is included in this mod.....

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)-([A-Za-z0-9\-]+)\.html$ forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^t([0-9]+)(((-p)([0-9]+))?)([A-Za-z0-9\-]+)\.html$ showthread.php?t=$1&page=$5&pp=10

Here is our first example..... (in .htaccess)

RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)- ([A-Za-z0-9\-]+)\.html$ forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [L]
..................1....2......3...........4....... .................................................

1. the "f" at #1 creates the f in "f14-get-appraised.html"
2. the "([0-9]+)" created the number id of the forum "f14-get-appraised.html"
3. the "-" creates the dash in the url "f14-get-appraised.html"
4. ([A-Za-z0-9\-]+) creates the name of the forum using the alphabet "f14-get-appraised.html"

To make it display as forum-14.html all I did was edit that line to make it like this...
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)-([A-Za-z0-9\-]+)\.html$ forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [L]

and then I edited some lines in the XML file to make the forum home display the right url. If you dont do this, you will get a page cannot be found. I dont hvae time to explain what I've done, so if anyone else want to continue for me.... go ahead.

If you want to see the final results in what I did, visit www.dnlodge.com and you can click on one of the forum catagories to see i renamed the URL.

-Brandon

[deathemperor]

Originally Posted by dn lodge

Dean, you may want to put this in the donwload file incase anyone else needs to do what I had to do for any reason.

The following insturctions makes...

http://www.dnlodge.com/f14-get-appraised.html
be displayed as...
http://www.dnlodge.com/forum-14.html

I had to do this because I got vb after the PR yupdate, and I wqanted my catagories to have at least a PR of one, and I didnt want to wait 3 more months, so I changed the code to give me the url my mod_rewrite did in my old phpbb.

Heres how I did it...

Here is the .htaccess that is included in this mod.....

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)-([A-Za-z0-9\-]+)\.html$ forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^t([0-9]+)(((-p)([0-9]+))?)([A-Za-z0-9\-]+)\.html$ showthread.php?t=$1&page=$5&pp=10

Here is our first example..... (in .htaccess)

RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)- ([A-Za-z0-9\-]+)\.html$ forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [L]
..................1....2......3...........4....... .................................................

1. the "f" at #1 creates the f in "f14-get-appraised.html"
2. the "([0-9]+)" created the number id of the forum "f14-get-appraised.html"
3. the "-" creates the dash in the url "f14-get-appraised.html"
4. ([A-Za-z0-9\-]+) creates the name of the forum using the alphabet "f14-get-appraised.html"

To make it display as forum-14.html all I did was edit that line to make it like this...
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)-([A-Za-z0-9\-]+)\.html$ forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [L]

and then I edited some lines in the XML file to make the forum home display the right url. If you dont do this, you will get a page cannot be found. I dont hvae time to explain what I've done, so if anyone else want to continue for me.... go ahead.

If you want to see the final results in what I did, visit www.dnlodge.com and you can click on one of the forum catagories to see i renamed the URL.

-Brandon

would you like to share the xml file of the edited plugin ?

also what about the showthread url if I don't want to display the thread title on url ?

thanks for your help