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.

[Smoothie]

Originally posted by SkuZZy
v2.3 has been released. The new version fixes the chdir problems that many were having. If you were stumped with the "blank page error", please download the latest 2.3 version. It fixes that problem. I am working on v3.0 and hopefully it will be done. New version will feature sub-forums displayed, as well as multiple pages (for large forums and threads).

SkuZZy

Hey SkuZZy, can you maybe fix the category link in the next release? When you click it you get a blank page.

[Guidster]

Well, I think that the following page says it all! Ranked number 2 right out of the gate! Looking at the URL, I am not positive that it was the archive system yet, but I think that this months indexing is starting to show up. I can only see things getting better once the items that googlebot gorged on in the archive are added. Thanks Skuzzy

[Guidster]

The archive worked great on Inktomi!

[cklaszlo]

When is the next Dance or major indexing/crawl?

[SkuZZy]

The dance is usually at the end of the month, often between the 25th and 30th and the "major crawl" happens 5 days after the dance BEGINS (approximately). So if the dance started on January 28th, the major crawl would probaly begin around the 3rd.

[SkuZZy]

Oh and just for refference, the dance is when google updates all their listings from their LAST major crawl. Those of you who installed my hack before the last "big crawl" should notice all your pages in google when the dance is done with.

[Geographic]

HELP

So i got .htaccess issues.

What do I do about it?

I should go to the httpd conf file and change what exactly?

mod_mime and mod_rewrite are installed
with these commands:

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
AddModule mod_rewrite.c

duplicate for mod_mime


mod_mime_magic is disabled... Don't know could that be a problem?

#AddModule mod_mime_magic.c

I have my own server but I'm not totally familiar with it.
Can anybody step by step me through that?

Red Hat 6.1 running Apache.

Can someone show exactly what they changed to get it to work when they had .htaccess problems?


would leaving links like this:

forums.com/forum/archive/forum.php/7.html

hurt my chances with the googlebot?


Would someone uploading a working conf file for comparison be
against apache's rules?

[kuska]

Within the next day of installing this hack i constantly have around 20 guests online. This hack is great. I submited my /archive to many search engines. This should be as an addition in VB3
Thanksssssssssssssssssssssss me clicks INSTALLS

[kuska]

O and may i add istalation was a snap and without a glitch. And i suck at installing hacks

[cklaszlo]

I was wondering if someone can help us create a similar script for our Roller Coaster and Amusement Park database. It would be great to get all those pages listed too.

Coasters: http://www.thrillnetwork.com/index....unc=allcoasters

Amusement parks: http://www.thrillnetwork.com/index....e&func=allparks

We have over 1700 Roller Coasters listed in our DB and over 500 amusement parks. Listing all sorts of information, histories and stats. It's been very frustrating that non of these pages are being indexed. At all. Please help.