Can vbSEO work on custom scripts? If so how?

**Antivirus** · 01-18-2008 02:45 PM

Our site is built off of a vbulletin back end, and there's amny custom scripts which aren't standard vbulletin files. Please check to see:

Eclipse Records - Homepage

Is vbseo able to rewrite urls for these custom scripts? If so, how is it able to do so?

One example of a custom script on our site is:
http://www.eclipserecords.com/artist...a&aid=2&am=bio

I'm aware of how vbSeo Sitemap handles these (by reading the extra-urls.txt file) but there's just too much content to do so for the entire site.

If it's not able to do so, is there any documentation on how to modify the vbseo code or perhaps create a plugin for vbseo to rewrite custom urls for these scripts in the same manner as it does for vbulletin scripts (i.e. based upon titles, metatags, or page content?

**Oleg Ignatiuk** · 01-18-2008 04:30 PM

Hello,

in case if those pages are vBulletin based, you can rewrite them with vBSEO Custom Rewrite Rules: vBSEO SEO Plugin - Custom Rewrite Rules at vBSEO.com

**Antivirus** · 01-19-2008 05:49 AM

Tjhanls for the quick response Oleg, however the link you gave above won't allow me permission to read thread in that forum. I am receiving the 'standard_error' message.

**Shadab** · 01-19-2008 06:15 AM

It gives an error message to you because that forum is accessible by registered vBSEO customers only.

**Oleg Ignatiuk** · 01-19-2008 06:22 AM

There is a special section in vBSEO Control Panel to define "Custom Rewrite Rules" that allow to change URLs that are not SEOed by default, an example of CRR is:

Code:

'artist\.php\?do=a&aid=(\d+)&am=(\w+)' => 'artist-$1-$2.html'

that will rewrite "artist.php?do=a&aid=2&am=bio" into "artist-2-bio.html".

**Antivirus** · 01-19-2008 09:12 PM

thanks for posting an example Oleg. So basically one would create one rewrite rule for each combination of $_REQUEST, $_POST, or $_GET that are within a script? ( or similar to that)?

**Oleg Ignatiuk** · 01-19-2008 09:22 PM

Yes, that's right.

**Antivirus** · 01-20-2008 08:56 AM

So what if I wanted to rewrite that same url as follows:
http://www.eclipserecords.com/mushro...biography.html

I would be able to pass the phrase mushroomhead biography through the meta description tag for vbseo - is that possible?

**Oleg Ignatiuk** · 01-20-2008 10:46 AM

If you want to have names instead of IDs in URL you will have to use custom conding with vBSEO Functions for Extensibility for that

Can vbSEO work on custom scripts? If so how?

Can vbSEO work on custom scripts? If so how?

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