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.

[cklaszlo]

Google is hitting us again today with about 75 - 90 bots on average. Inktomi at about 30.

[Xenon]

@julius (and all others of course):
i've uploaded a new version, it divides a thread into 200 posts per page, hope u like it

[julius]

Originally posted by Xenon
@julius (and all others of course):
i've uploaded a new version, it divides a thread into 200 posts per page, hope u like it

Xenon, Thanks very much indeed!

[Steve St.Lauren]

I've installed this hack on our boards and I'm getting the forum list but when I click on the forum name then it just bounces to my error page (which is the front page of the site). I've added mod_mime and mod_rewrite to my httpd.conf and restarted apache so I'm pretty sure they are installed. Any way to verify that with a command? Any help would be appreciated.

Also, I have 56,312 threads on our site and I'd like to keep the loads off of our primary server (we get ~1,000,000 hits a day). I have a second server that is mysql slaved to the master so the entire database is on that server as well. Any recommendations on how I could change these scripts so that the actual information (mysql queries) come from the second server (which is on an IP address - no domain name) but it looks like it came from the primary server domain name. TIA

[Xenon]

hmm, weird.
are you sure you have placed the .htaccess right?
it seems that it doesn't run the php code just assuming site does not exists..

[Javazoid]

so you don't have to submit to inktomi? what! where is inktomi anyways.. inktomi.com ? you always have to submit other wise how they know your site is tehre, is it connect to google or something?

[Steve St.Lauren]

Yes, .htaccess is there - just verified that.

[Steve St.Lauren]

I figured it out - in my httpd.conf file AllowOverride was set to none for my entire htdocs directory. All I had to do was turn on AllowOverride for that directory and it's working now.

I could still use help on how to have it pull the data from my slave server but look like it's coming from the main. TIA

[julius]

Originally posted by Xenon
@julius (and all others of course):
i've uploaded a new version, it divides a thread into 200 posts per page, hope u like it

Xenon, it seems that google downloads twice the same page:

ex: for thread id 2000

.../topic/2000.html

and

.../topic/2000-1.html

[Xenon]

@Steve: good to hear
sorry but the second thing i couldn't answer i just work on one server systems and hav noe experience for you then...

@julius:
yes, but that shouldn't be a problem
it's like it here, too
you can call page 1 by adding the pagenumer=1 or just leave it alone on showthread...
if it really disturbs you, just put an -1 after the $threadid in forum. where the link is..