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.

[Infopro]

I should add, Alexia has been here for days digging around using up bandwidth.

http://www.google.com/search?num=50&...237.238.172%22

[Infopro]

oops! Also had to change this in the forum and topic files.
Line 34 & line 67 in forum and 47 & 76 in topic.

Now it seems to be good.

[jw791]

Yesterday at 12:55 PM Infopro said this in Post #562
oops! Also had to change this in the forum and topic files.
Line 34 & line 67 in forum and 47 & 76 in topic.

Now it seems to be good.

Thanks! I was getting the same error too!

[pgowder]

Any tips on getting google to start crawling this? Sent installing and submitting the url to google, my google totals have dropped over 150 pages.

[VICOS]

Smilies are broken.

<img src="images/smilies/cool.gif" border="0" alt="">

images needs to be absolute -> /images...

Any ideas?

P.S. U might want to start a new thread to track issues. I made it to pp 20 looking for an answer to this before my eyes started spinning.

[pgowder]

07-25-03 at 08:54 AM pgowder said this in Post #564
Any tips on getting google to start crawling this? Sent installing and submitting the url to google, my google totals have dropped over 150 pages.

I continue to drop in the totals of pages in Google. What can I do?

[Khashyar]

Hi guys....

The forum archive software works well without glitches....

The only thing that I am a bit confused about is that although I have over 600 posts in my forum, Google has only indexed about 109 posts after 1 1/2 months on having the archive software installed.

In fact, Google has indexed only 109 posts in my forum steadily for about 3 or 4 weeks now.

Could there be any reason why Google is not spidering the other 500 posts in my forum?

The link to my forum archive is here: http://www.russianmeetingplace.com/f...orum_archives/

Thank you for any feedback,

Khashyar

[Khashyar]

Another question for everyone...

Would it be a good idea to install 2 DIFFERENT types of VB forum archives softeware? I was thinking that the different search engine archiving software might work best with different search engines.

What does everyone think?

Khashyar

[Hellburn]

Hi,

my hoster allowed me about .htaccess Apatche configuration. Can i make mod_mime turn on with .htaccess? What i must writing in the .htaccess to do it? Thank you for help.

[Hellburn]

sh.. i have cgi-php. everybody a idea what i must change that the hack working? i have a error 404 when i clicked the threads. thanks