Major Additions - DC SEO vB URL Rewrite

[high]Removed until further notice[/high]

[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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[Glovebox]

Dean, in the latest beta you sent. Users are unable to view preview pages of forums. It just reloads the current page.

[Ericsson]

Hi on www.freespacechat.com when you click on a thread from the index is shows the normal PHP, how can I get it for the SEO thread?

[Sean James]

Awesome script

Used this on a clients site and it when i compared his keywords stats to previous months they have doubled. Takes about 1-2 weeks before u start seeings results but its well worth it.

I am so happy with this script i installed it on Bluepearl Design last night, and today i plan on installing it on USFTECH Gaming.

[Okie]

Hey Dean is there any chanse we can make the url of the thread

/thread4129-where-can-i-find-indy-promotions.html

to

/where-can-i-find-indy-promotions/

and the forum url

/f64-gun-forum.html

To

/gun-forum/


i hope there is chanse for this

[COsborne]

not unless you dont want to allow duplicate threads and want to write a rewrite for every forum

[Okie]

Oops

never think about that

Alright how about this

/thread4129-where-can-i-find-indy-promotions.html

to

/where-can-i-find-indy-promotions-122/

122 is the url id.

and the forum url

/f64-gun-forum.html

To

/gun-forum/
or
/f1/
/f2/
etc..

i think it will be nice if there is options

[COsborne]

if you add the thread id to the end of the url it is easily noticed by users and requires a much more complicated rule to accomplish. Changing to the forum name is doable but like I said it requires a rule for each forum which takes a while and doesnt allow for easily changing names. I wrote a mod for my old version of vbulletin (preplugin) so I've messed around with a lot of the options. I even went so far as to rewrite attachments so that they 1) were watermarked and 2) were affixed with .jpg so they could be included in posts safely.

[Dean C]

Great sig okie Yes it's possible, but I don't plan on doing it I'm afraid. I have a very very very busy weekend. I'm aiming to cram in all my coursework and get it out the way which will leave me an enjoyable week to release the next version.

[croportal]

Originally Posted by Okie

Oops

never think about that

Alright how about this

/thread4129-where-can-i-find-indy-promotions.html

to

/where-can-i-find-indy-promotions-122/

122 is the url id.

and the forum url

/f64-gun-forum.html

To

/gun-forum/
or
/f1/
/f2/
etc..

i think it will be nice if there is options

that option will be great :squareeyed:

[Glovebox]

Dean, in the latest beta you sent. Users are unable to view preview pages of forums. It just reloads the current page.