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**monstergamer** · 08-12-2005 04:24 AM

just want to tell you some great news with the changes when i install vBSEO
google is all over my site changing over the links to the new ones
with that in mind i am now higher in google with certain keywords

i was checking my stat program and it showed me a list of TOP SEARCH keywords
and in the top 10 or higher in google for keywords are below

playstation forum out of about 3,440,000
game forum out of about 23,500,000
xbox 360 forum out of about 4,140,000
Nintendo forum out of about 3,170,000

there is others but thats enough for tonight =)
for being many game forums in the world i am proud to say i am in the top ten
best choice i made so far. i would recommend this to any one

**acers** · 08-12-2005 06:01 PM

congrats...

btw you mentioned you had xenons hack of easy archive. So what did you do about that?

Am still hanging around waiting to install this. Haven't got any of the rc's to work on my site right from rc2.(most prob the cgi issue). Hoping the rc5 works now. Btw whats the ETA for rc5. 2 days back it was 2 days back

. It hasn't come till now

**monstergamer** · 08-13-2005 09:05 PM

Originally Posted by acers

congrats...

btw you mentioned you had xenons hack of easy archive. So what did you do about that?

Am still hanging around waiting to install this. Haven't got any of the rc's to work on my site right from rc2.(most prob the cgi issue). Hoping the rc5 works now. Btw whats the ETA for rc5. 2 days back it was 2 days back

. It hasn't come till now

right now i have the easy archive working and just hass the link to go to the homepage by editting the topic file

**Silmarillion** · 08-13-2005 09:16 PM

I don`t think that it`s useful to adopt the easy-archive hack. This produce Double-Content:

http://www.monstergamer.net/vb/onlin...game_ever.html

http://www.monstergamer.net/vb/search/topic/1098-1.html

The outcome of this could be bad SERPs.

Yours, Silmarillion

**monstergamer** · 08-13-2005 09:40 PM

yeah, but i had it for 1 and 1/2 years +
so getting rid of it would be like cutting of an arm and a leg
since most of those pages are index in google

**acers** · 08-14-2005 04:37 AM

exactly the problem i am facing.
I don't just wanna delete the thing off cos its so well indexed. Juan mentioned a double 301 redirect first to original thread structure of Vbulletin and then let VBSEO handle the thread to make it point to actual url. But double redirects are ignored by google. (its mentioned on google newsgroups i think)

I actually want to get rid of the easy archives now but how to do it in the correct manner. I don't want people to just start getting page not found or to redirect them to homepage instead of what they came to the site for. So basically the functionality needed is for it to act as a sitemap also.

Anyway what do you all think is the way to go? I mean i am ready to take a drastic step also... provided its good enough one

**acers** · 08-14-2005 05:10 AM

ok i am gonna try to do the double 301 redirect method today. If it works i will post (if it doesn't i will still post

asking for help

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**T2DMan** · 08-14-2005 06:10 AM

You should definately not have the archive version of the threads.

Basically, the archive should be used as a site map for the actual threads. This gets the max amount of anchor link value and Google PR through to the actual threads. It means that you have the best opportunity to get the threads to the top of Google for their search terms.

So how do you get Google to change from having the archive thread version, plus the showthread.php?t=123 version to only have the new rewritten version???

Pretty easy if you use the vBulletin Google site map to show both the archive thread urls, and the showthread.php urls, as well as the rewritten url's. then Google can spider the old versions and see the redirects to the new rewritten version of the actual thread. Google will then delete the old urls and replace with the rewritten url's, keeping the same PR for them.

I have completed and am currently testing an upgraded version of my vbulletin Google site map. Will be available in the next couple of days - just waiting for Google to upload my sitemap and have no errors...

**acers** · 08-14-2005 07:19 AM

Ok got it.

add this code above the htaccess file

Code:

RewriteBase /forums
RewriteRule ^search/forum/([0-9]+)-([0-9]+).html$ forumdisplay.php?f=$1&page=$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^search/topic/([0-9]+)-([0-9]+).html$ showthread.php?t=$1&page=$2 [R=301,L]

search btw is my directory for easy archive.. rename that to what you have

you will get the original url in VBSEO format.

Btw any vbseo team members plz just check i have not broken anything. and juan counting that double redirects are ok

**monstergamer** · 08-14-2005 07:37 PM

which htaccess file? vbseo's, if so i got an error when trying to go to my archive and sitemap..

maybe i did some thing wrong

**acers** · 08-15-2005 01:25 AM

your sitemap is working for me.
Did you name your earlier archives same as archives?

even then there shouldn't be any probs cos i am matching the actual folders.
And yead this is to the htaccess file in forums root. You can see it in action on my site.

**monstergamer** · 08-15-2005 01:52 AM

mine is named search
just like yours, but i took the part of the htaccess file out that you said add
but when i add it, it make the archive and easy archive not work for some reason

**acers** · 08-15-2005 04:17 AM

strange...

remove the base part and see.
My archive is named sitemap btw. But i don't think that should cause any conflicts whatever you name it.

here is my file

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^forums.techenclave.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.forums.techenclave.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.techenclave.com/forums/index.php [R=301,L]

RewriteBase /forums
RewriteRule ^search/forum/([0-9]+)-([0-9]+).html$ forumdisplay.php?f=$1&page=$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^search/topic/([0-9]+)-([0-9]+).html$ showthread.php?t=$1&page=$2 [R=301,L]

# Some servers require the Rewritebase directive to be
# enabled (remove '#' at the beginning to activate)
# Please note: when enabled, you must include the path
# to your root vB folder (i.e. RewriteBase /forums)
# RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !admincp/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !modcp/
RewriteRule ^(.*\.php) vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(archive/.*)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

**acers** · 08-15-2005 05:35 AM

btw when did you implement vbseo(how many days back).. the spiders on your board are quite good
Currently Active Users: 134 (1 members and 32 guests and 101 spiders)

hoping that my board follows suit now that we have vbseo also

**T2DMan** · 08-15-2005 06:19 AM

What do you mean about there being lots of spiders on a board???

The spiders come around, and it does not have much to do with the url's. I have had no more come around with the rewritten url's.

Whether spiders come around or not is quite a different story to what they do once they have got the content. The new rel=nofollow part of the seovb hack, and directing the archive directly to the actual thread are probably the two most important parts to the hack - since between them both, they direct the PR to the most important parts of the forum.

Then tweak the titles, repeat the first words of the title in the first paragraph a few times... and those are the things that really get you places.

Further, add lots of Google PR via recip links, and the Link vault, and you have a real recipe for success.

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