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.

[codewebs]

look at all the googles i think there the fresh bots or whatever you call them tho..

http://www.codewebs.com/fresh.gif

[Javazoid]

Sign :disappointed: what am i doing wrong. Mine have been up for a very long time, couple of months and nothing has happened..

my archives are located at wcgateway.com/forums/archive

and the exact url i submitted to google was

http://www.wcgateway.com/forums/archive

i dunno maybe it hates me?

[Guidster]

Originally posted by Javazoid
Sign :disappointed: what am i doing wrong. Mine have been up for a very long time, couple of months and nothing has happened..

my archives are located at wcgateway.com/forums/archive

and the exact url i submitted to google was

http://www.wcgateway.com/forums/archive

i dunno maybe it hates me?

Maybe the spider is annoyed by the popups that are on your archive! Good looking archive. Have you submitted it again?

[Guidster]

Originally posted by dFrisk


I've kept quiet about this for some time but after these comments I am going to speak. Throughout this thread you have interjected yourself, Tech. On no other hack discussion have I seen someone with a "competing" (similar) hack visit the others thread so much and make comments such as the ones that you have made on numerous occasions - arguing against SkuZZy's info in regards to Google.com inclusion, etc. Maybe your hack works and looks pretty.. Good.. Whatever.. But, keep it out of this thread.. That is just rude.
As for your differing opinion on Google. I did go over to searchengineforums and read, read, read and then post. It seems that SkuZZy is right on the money with what he has been saying.

I have been so impressed that I uninstalled vBHome Lite in lieu of PHPPortal

[julius]

I hate Google!
I submitted the link to the archive to google and put the link on my home page.
After 2 days 50 google bot were on my site during about 2 days.
After 2 more days I made a search and Google returns me more than 1,000 pages (before were 190), with more than 800 from the archive.
Now, after 1 week google returns me only 191 pages, with only 1 (the main page) from the archive.

Why?

[SkuZZy]

Originally posted by julius
I hate Google!
I submitted the link to the archive to google and put the link on my home page.
After 2 days 50 google bot were on my site during about 2 days.
After 2 more days I made a search and Google returns me more than 1,000 pages (before were 190), with more than 800 from the archive.
Now, after 1 week google returns me only 191 pages, with only 1 (the main page) from the archive.

Why?

What you saw was called everflux. Your pages were only in google for a short time, then taken out. This is common practice. Your pages will be re-added again at the end of the month, this time permanantely.

[SkuZZy]

Originally posted by Javazoid
Sign :disappointed: what am i doing wrong. Mine have been up for a very long time, couple of months and nothing has happened..

my archives are located at wcgateway.com/forums/archive

and the exact url i submitted to google was

http://www.wcgateway.com/forums/archive

i dunno maybe it hates me?

Nice setup. It will spider you soon, chances are, it already has and you don't even know it. Watch for a bunch of your pages to be added next update. Even if google did spider you, they wouldnt be added until the end of the month during the "dance".

[Steve St.Lauren]

In installing this hack I noticed that the categories link to a blank page rather than just showing as a category. If you search through index.php for this line: (around line 82)

echo "<li><a
href=\"forum/$forum[forumid].html\">$forum[title]</a><br><font
size=1>$forum[description]</font>";

and change it to:

if ($forum['cancontainthreads']==0) {
echo "<li>$forum[title]<br><font size=1>$forum[description]</font>";
}
else
{
echo "<li><a
href=\"forum/$forum[forumid].html\">$forum[title]</a><br><font
size=1>$forum[description]</font>";
}

Then the categories won't show up as a link to a blank page.

[julius]

Originally posted by SkuZZy


What you saw was called everflux. Your pages were only in google for a short time, then taken out. This is common practice. Your pages will be re-added again at the end of the month, this time permanantely.

Thanks.

[Xenon]

@Steve: thx for noticing, i've updated th file with that