Getting googlized without .htaccess or mod_rewrite...

[cobradude]

Ok, I am using IIS, and I would like google and others to crawl my entire site, but each of the spider friendly hacks I have seen require .htaccess or mod_rewrite, none of which I can use.

Is there a way to make an archive using IIS that will be crawlable?

[TECK]

You could install vbHome (lite) and use the Search Engine Indexer add-on. On my site, I get every night about 20-30 robots crawling for new posts.

[DrkFusion]

Every night?
I thought google only crawls once a month or something, anyways.

Tecks Archive is cool, google nailed it, and all the threads were indexed.

[TECK]

The way Google works is like this:
First it will send in mission only one crawler, to see if something is new to the site. If the spy detects new stuff, it will report to home base how many links are new. According to this, dependable on each time stamp, the home base will send around 2-4AM it's soldiers (crawlxxx.googlebot.com) in mission to grab the new information from your site.

That's why is so important to have a plain simple link to the archive file on your site. Google say is not necessary and that they will do it for you anyway... but I don't believe it.
Since I placed my archive.php file, I see many more crawlers onto my site then ever, every day. If you have only one folder, they will not come every day to visit your site.
What i did me is this: I submitted to Google the archive.php link. In 2 days my site was hammered hundreds of times by the crawlers.

BTW, this tip (plain link) came from Chen.

[TECK]

Here it is an example of spidered links:
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&lr...rds.com+vbhome

[cobradude]

Teck, I am currently using vbportal. Is the add-on something I could use with it?

Thanks for the help.

[TECK]

Unfortunately no. It needs the vbHome functions.
There is another hack similar to this on the Full Releases section, done by my friend Xenon and Scuzzy. It uses a different approach, using a htaccess file. My hack doesn't require no mods at all. Just run the installer, upload the archive file and you are done.

I cannot tell you how the performance go or if all threads are indexed (how fast or if it's done daily done) because I didn't try it.

[cobradude]

Hmmm....I can't use .htaccess because I'm using IIS.

[cobradude]

Any chance for a little dough you could make your archive script standalone?

[TECK]

Sorry, no. It's designed to be used by vbHome (lite) users, since is an addon available ONLY on my forums.