Even better spider archive?

in archive/index.php go down around line 189....

PHP Code:

          echo "<div id=\"content\">\n<ol start=\"$start\" id=\"thread\">\n";
          while ($thread = $DB_site->fetch_array($threads))
          {
          $bah                         = str_replace(" ", "_", $thread[title]);
          
             echo "\t<li><a href=\"t-$thread[threadid]$bah.html\" d=\"$thread[lastpost]\">$thread[title]</a></li>\n";
          }
          echo "</ol>\n</div>\n"; 


Here's this quick mod in action: http://www.iamnotageek.com/archive/index.php/f-48.html

basically it puts the Thread title into the URL which in my testing seems to give better search rankings than the URL without the name of the topic in it.

Obviously your mileage may vary..... THis is NOT to start a debate on search placements.

[SaN-DeeP]

Bump. I installed this hack 5 days back. and now google spider stopped visiting my archive

any ideaz

[SaN-DeeP]

sorry had to uninstall this,. and moment it got uninstalled google started hogging in again.
I am bit confused on google archiving :S

sorry for uninstall.
but a very nice hack for a fresh board only

[fiber1]

Would be nice to try if we actually knew what to do.

With no disrespect! The instruction need to be updated with clearity.

Fiber

[dethfire]

a colon in a thread title breaks the script ex. (RE: cats and dogs), how can we fix that?

[Mr. Brian]

Originally Posted by SaN-DeeP

sorry had to uninstall this,. and moment it got uninstalled google started hogging in again.
I am bit confused on google archiving :S

sorry for uninstall.
but a very nice hack for a fresh board only

I thought you might be interested with the Xenon's version.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...979#post542979

Simple to install and with full details provided.

[hasan2k]

Originally Posted by krohnathlonman

in archive/index.php go down around line 189....

PHP Code:

          echo "<div id=\"content\">\n<ol start=\"$start\" id=\"thread\">\n";
          while ($thread = $DB_site->fetch_array($threads))
          {
          $bah                         = str_replace(" ", "_", $thread[title]);
          
             echo "\t<li><a href=\"t-$thread[threadid]$bah.html\" d=\"$thread[lastpost]\">$thread[title]</a></li>\n";
          }
          echo "</ol>\n</div>\n"; 


Here's this quick mod in action: http://www.iamnotageek.com/archive/index.php/f-48.html

basically it puts the Thread title into the URL which in my testing seems to give better search rankings than the URL without the name of the topic in it.

Obviously your mileage may vary..... THis is NOT to start a debate on search placements.

I tried using your code. It does not WORK. There is probably something you didnt instruct us on.

[CostaRicaForums]

Originally Posted by Mr. Brian

I thought you might be interested with the Xenon's version.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...979#post542979

Simple to install and with full details provided.

Sorry, but I have to disagree.

I've seen the example posted in that thread and doesn?t seem to work. At least I don?t see the thread name in the URLs.

But this one, I installed in under 2 minutes, and worked great!

However, I made a couple of small modifications to it.

1- I changed the underscore for a dash, that from my SEO experience seems to work better, and also added a dash as shown below:

Instead of using:

= str_replace(" ", "_", $thread[title]);

I used

= str_replace(" ", "-", $thread[title]);

2- Instead of using:

echo "\t<li><a href=\"t-$thread[threadid]$bah.html\"

I used:

echo "\t<li><a href=\"t-$thread[threadid]-$bah.html\"

This way the outcome would be:

http://www.yoursite.com/archive/index.php/t-18-whatever.html

Instead of:

http://www.yoursite.com/archive/index.php/t-18whatever.html

Which I think is even better.

But anyway, I?m not a coder? I?m just an SEO and I?m sure this mod will give a big boost to my archive files.

BIG Kudos and clicking InStALL !!!

You can see it working at my
Costa Rica Forum?s archive.

Here?s also the example of the modified thread regarding Costa Rica Food. ( notice the URL in the Status Bar )

By the way... as you can see, even though the URLs of the threads are changed, the name of the forum in not affected by this cool mod... :ermm: which would be great. Any coder out there with a tip on how to make this?

Thanks

[IC-Games]

Does anyone know exactly what we are supposed to do in this thread or do you need to belong to some secret club

The instructions are very unclear to beginners

[version2]

Unclear to beginners? Im no beginner and I still am wondering what to do with this code.

[auveeb]

What exactly am I supposed to do with the provided code?