Board Optimization - SEO YouTube and Google Videos

This mod was inspired by by Embed XHTML valid YouTube and Google Video into your posts but this mod contains some bugs and isn't complete so I then needed to modify it and decided to do it really well and aply SEO technology to it.

This mod will enable your users to publish YouTube or Google videos on your forum. It's managable via the adminpanel and the script will automaticly download the titles of the videos from YouTube or Google Video and store it in the database so it will get the videos indexed verry well and it's fast.

Some of the features:

• Custom tagnames, manageable from the adminpanel
• Automatic Video Title retrieval, with optional support for Lib Curl and user-simulated video title retrieval
• Custom editor icons, managable from the adminpanel
• Template based Google or YouTube video output
• Support for local Google Video servers, to make your site local
• Phrases for all text so it has support for multi-lingual forums
• Optional, extend all links within the video with rel="nofollow", customizable seperately for YouTube or Google Video
• Custom Video titles via tag option ([googlevideo="Video Title"]...[/googlevideo])
• SEO Video Index (demo)
• SEO Video Bar (demo)
• Ability to configure usergroups that have access to delete videos.

Instalation:

1. Import the XML product
2. Upload the attached icon images (or use your own)
   • Default is:
     • /images/editor/google.gif
     • /images/editor/youtube.gif
3. Open htaccess.txt, configure it (replace yourdomain with your domain), save it as .htaccess and upload it to the root of your forum
4. Run the included installer
   • The installer will also upgrade previous instalations
   • Bug: when you run the installer more then once, multiple of the same indexes are created. I haven't found a way yet to prevent this. I have posted some messages on MySQL forums to find an answere and will then upgrade the installer. For now it is adviced to run the installer just once and for upgrades it is adviced to check the PREFIXseovideos table after upgrading to see if there are any duplicate indexes configured to remove them if needed.
5. To install the Videobar anywhere on the forum use the folowing code:
   • PHP Code:

     <!-- SEO Videos Index Bar --> 


Done.

Have Fun!
Jan Jaap

Screenshots:





Update: 18 februari 2007 (latest files from www.papegaaienforum.nl where this mod works very well).

[mikeB]

maybe Im a tad slow but where is the videos.html page supposed to be? if you go to my domainname.com/foums/videos.html - there is nothing - any help is appreciated

http://www.bakermedia.com/learn/videos.html

> yes uploaded .htaccess to forum root replacing w/ mydomainname

[basilrath]

hey the you tube or google works in the sidebar i customized and looks snazzy too lol

your coding is tweeked a little but cool!

www.thebigfatsofa.com
demo

[Dennen]

ive uploaded the editor images an they are in the right folder but it still shows as text when im makin a thread, how do i get them to show as the images?

[RichieBoy67]

Originally Posted by basilrath

hey the you tube or google works in the sidebar i customized and looks snazzy too lol

your coding is tweeked a little but cool!

www.thebigfatsofa.com
demo

Awesome,

Anyways you could share that with me????

Thanks

[raiderlax]

will this work with VBSEO?

[basilrath]

Awesome,

Anyways you could share that with me????

Thanks

ye ill post the code shortly

[hani-g]

very nice thank you

[mikeB]

Originally Posted by mikeB

maybe Im a tad slow but where is the videos.html page supposed to be? if you go to my domainname.com/foums/videos.html - there is nothing - any help is appreciated

http://www.bakermedia.com/learn/videos.html

> yes uploaded .htaccess to forum root replacing w/ mydomainname

anyone have any idea why this is happening to me? thx in advance

[raiderlax]

Anyone< will this work with VBSEO?

[ZiG]

i think i have discovered what the issue is with my video index page

for some reason when i submit a new video to my forum, the video_id table in SQL is not filling in correctly...

lets say I have a video, youtube..embedded to my forum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XxI-hvPRRA

I would assume the video_id should be 0XxI-hvPRRA

but instead it is just 0

could this be the reason my videos arent displaying properly on the index page? how would I go about fixing this?