vbSpiderFriend - Search Engine Friendliness

I am tired of my 200,000 posts not being listed in Google. I was inspired by phpbuilder.com this morning and I wrote:

vbSpiderFriend - the search engine indexer for all of your posts

Purpose: Allow search engine spiders to crawl a linked list of all of your posts.

Project Requirements:

-Friendly URLs (no query strings)
-Good dynamic meta tags
-Never have to touch the script again.. It is Y3K compliant, simply re-submit to the engines to update your listings

Install Requirements:

-vBulletin 1.x or 2.x
-about 10 minutes


1) Download the attached Zip.

2) Open class.mysql.php and put your database login info at the top.

3) Create a new directory called archive under your forum, like /forum/archive

4) Open the included .htaccess and change the Error 404 to your new archive path.

5) Open index.php and change the self-explanatory variables at the top of the file.

6) Upload all 3 files to your archive directory.

7) Submit /forum/archive/index.php to search engines and watch em crawl


DISCLAIMER: I don't use 2.x but I checked the schema and this should work fine.

NOTES: This uses ErrorDocument and query string parsing to get the variables needed. I do not have the time or energy to troubleshoot this if it does not work on your server. Sorry!

[Sergio68]

And why :


View an online example:

http://www.overgrow.com/edge/archive

Then :

Parse error: parse error, expecting `T_OLD_FUNCTION' or `T_FUNCTION' or `T_VAR' or `'}'' in /home/overgrow/HTML/globals/class.mysql.php on line 1

Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: mysql in /home/overgrow/HTML/edge/archive/index.php on line 78

[Sergio68]

I got it....

IIS5 doesn't have the .htacces file , you need to go inside the Site "Properties" and then "Custom Errors" and finally Edit the 404 Error File...

But Still not work at all, look : http://www.bodyweb.it/vbullettin/archive/


Help, please...

[Sergio68]

Now I got the redirection, but the script (index.php) doesn't detect the forwarding.


http://www.bodyweb.it/vbullettin/archive/9


is the same of :


http://www.bodyweb.it/vbullettin/archive








Why ?

[Prince]

Originally posted by pekay



You sure?

Damn..

Positive, and now that I think about it I installed this hack 3 months ago.

[Sergio68]

Finally goes !

[Sergio68]

Originally posted by Prince


Positive, and now that I think about it I installed this hack 3 months ago.

Now submit your site and than wait ....

http://128.121.225.20/submit/index.html

[Sergio68]

Search REQUEST_URI and replace it with QUERY_STRING in index.php if you are running IIS5 .

[tpearl5]

Originally posted by Prince
for anyone that cares, this hack does not work, meaning Google (the only search spider that means anything) will not spider your threads with this hack installed.

I have had it installed for 2 months now, and Google did not pick up any more of my vB than it had before.

This is my old URL.. but google did index it

:surprised:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...+midi+overgrow

[Prince]

hmmm....glad to see that, wonder why it has not indexed mine?

Google visits my site often too.

[dwh]

You need a link from your main page to the archive...just submitting it to google isn't enough..google needs to see links to that page or it won't like it...