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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[Dean C]

Originally Posted by Silmarillion

Hi Dean,
for nzboards.com identical rules "mission" (archive) is possible. How come?
Come on, Dean! You`ll make it!

Yours, Silmarillion (Tolkien Forever)

Sorry I don't understand what you mean

[Silmarillion]

That doesn`t matter anymore, Dean. ;-)
As far as i know the mod_rewrite used to nzboards.com is a professional Software (vBSEO 2.0) in the Beta-Version.

Yours, Silmarillion (Tolkien Forever)

[Razasharp]

This looks promising and means I might upgrade to 3.5 afterall!

Dean - do you have a test forum that this is installed on so we can see it in action?

Also, is it possible to have the name of the url appear before the number? eg, yoursite.com/forum/a-thread-name-48843.html ?

thanks! I look forward to seeing this in final release

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by Razasharp

This looks promising and means I might upgrade to 3.5 afterall!

Dean - do you have a test forum that this is installed on so we can see it in action?

Also, is it possible to have the name of the url appear before the number? eg, yoursite.com/forum/a-thread-name-48843.html ?

thanks! I look forward to seeing this in final release

Well it would be possible to do that but at the end of the day it would have no advantage And no, I don't have this installed on a publically viewable test forum I'm afraid It does what it says on the tin

[Razasharp]

Originally Posted by Dean C

Well it would be possible to do that but at the end of the day it would have no advantage And no, I don't have this installed on a publically viewable test forum I'm afraid It does what it says on the tin

Hi Dean

Theres a huge advantage for people using google ads in their thread pages (cos google takes info from the url )... I did some quick tests and found that mod rewrite with numbers at the end did better than mod rewrite with numbers at the front, with regards to ad relevancy from google.

I have mod rewrite with numbers at the end on 3.0.7 - if you want to take a look, I can PM ur the url

[SouthernTn]

Hey will this work for the 3.5 Beta 4 release?

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by SouthernTn

Hey will this work for the 3.5 Beta 4 release?

No idea, give it a try, if not you can always delete the plugin

[SouthernTn]

ok thanks for replying will do now.

[SouthernTn]

Yes it works ... Nice man ! just clicked the install button

[Dean C]

Excellent Glad you got it working!