Can vBSEO work with vB Hacks like Downloads?

NightNinja · #1 03-31-2006, 03:40 AM

My website (http://www.mpcdownloads.com) is very much download oriented rather than thread-oriented. The majority of the content of the site that users go for are our downloads found here: http://www.mpcdownloads.com/forums/downloads.php?

Unfortunately, the entire database of downloads is set up with dynamic URLS and rarely ever gets indexed. The site has over 4,000 downloads each which have their own individual pages. What I'm looking for is for vBSEO to put the Category name in the first / and the name of the file in the next (like the title is set up). Ex: http://www.mpcdownloads.com/forums/d...o=file&id=5468 would turn into http://www.mpcdownloads.com/forums/BF2/Omega-v1-source/ . (Both of which are in the title of the page and located in the MySQL Database)

If this hack can be customized to do that without hours of work, I will buy it right now.

Philipp Herbers · #2 03-31-2006, 05:45 AM

Hello NightNinja,

I don't know this plugin but you should be able to create some Custom Rewrite Rules for this plugin.

NightNinja · #3 03-31-2006, 05:47 AM

How would I go about doing that? Would someone on the vBSEO support team help me in writing these custom rewrite rules?

Oleg Ignatiuk · #4 03-31-2006, 09:27 AM

Hello,

you can use the following CRR:

Code:

'downloads\.php\?do=file&id=(\d+)$' => 'downloads-$1/'

to create URLs like http://www.mpcdownloads.com/forums/downloads-5468/

As for keywords embedded into rewritten URL, please refer to my post here:
http://www.vbseo.com/23180-post5.html

NightNinja · #5 04-01-2006, 05:45 AM

I can't see that thread because I havn't bought the software but before I do buy the software I just want to make sure that using your thread for custom rewrite rules will my hack DEFINATELY work with vBSEO?

Oleg Ignatiuk · #6 04-01-2006, 05:58 AM

Hello,

there should not be any conflicts with other hacks. Also, you will be able to create custom URLs for 3rd party hacks. However, if you want to include keywords into URLs, some code modification may be required.

here is the quote from the post:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Oleg Ignatiuk

Custom Rewrite Rules allow you to create new URLs based on your existing URL. It means that you cannot automatically create editorialX-editorial-title-here.html URL from your current URL, because it doesn't have the title in it.
If you are able to modify your dynamic URLs to something like:
index.php?page=editorial&newsid=2&title=editorial-title
then you can use this CRR:

Code:

'index\.php\?page=editorial&newsid=(\d+)&title=(.+)$' => 'editorial$1-$2.html'

Otherwise, you can create one CRR per each article URL (which is not effective though), like:

Code:

'index\.php\?page=editorial&newsid=2' => 'editorial2-editorial-title-here.html'
'index\.php\?page=editorial&newsid=3' => 'editorial3-another--title-here.html'

etc.

NightNinja · #7 04-01-2006, 06:40 PM

So what i'm understanding is that I have to modify the code of my hack first to put the title into URL dynamically and then use vbSEO to make it more SE friendly by getting rid of all the = signs and turning it into dashes.

Oleg Ignatiuk · #8 04-01-2006, 07:10 PM

Yes, that's right.
In case if URLs like "forums/downloads-5468/" are fine for you, then you don't have to do any code modifications. But if you'd like to add keywords in URLs, your downloads hack should be modified for this.

NightNinja · #9 04-05-2006, 08:39 AM

I'm going to pay someone to modify my hack however I want to know exactly what I have to modify before I purchase vbSEO so should I include both category names and file names in the URL?

What i want from vbSEO is for it to turn my URLS into something like this:
from http://www.mpcdownloads.com/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=5779 to http://www.mpcdownloads.com/CS-Source/Mega-Script-v5.0.html .

So should i have URLS modified to read as http://www.mpcdownloads.com/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=5779&filename=Mega-Script-v5.0&catname=CS-Source ?

would vbSEO (using CRR) be able to do this kind of change easily?

Oleg Ignatiuk · #10 04-05-2006, 10:11 AM

Hello,

Quote:

so should I include both category names and file names in the URL?
So should i have URLS modified to read as

Code:

http://www.mpcdownloads.com/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=5779&filename=Mega-Script-v5.0&catname=CS-Source

?

Yes, exactly.

However, resulting URL will be slightly different - from this URL:

Code:

http://www.mpcdownloads.com/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=5779&filename=Mega-Script-v5.0&catname=CS-Source

(with one CRR defined in vbseocp) you will get something like:

Code:

http://www.mpcdownloads.com/forums/download/CS-Source/Mega-Script-v5.0-5779.html

Please notice that:
1. resulting URL is located under the forums/ folder
2. download ID is included in URL to allow reversing to the original URL

NightNinja · #11 04-05-2006, 07:35 PM

Ok, my URLS now look like i said they would, and I can't figure out what the CRR is to make the mlook like what u said right above this post.

Oleg Ignatiuk · #12 04-05-2006, 08:48 PM

Hi,

here is a CRR for this:

Code:

'downloads\.php\?do=file&id=(\d+)&filename=(.+)&catname=(.+)' => 'download/$3/$2/$1.html'

MJadmin · #13 12-11-2006, 03:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Oleg Ignatiuk

Hi,

here is a CRR for this:

Code:

'downloads\.php\?do=file&id=(\d+)&filename=(.+)&catname=(.+)' => 'download/$3/$2/$1.html'

Where do I put this CRR? I dont see any option in VBSEO?

Oleg Ignatiuk · #14 12-11-2006, 03:15 PM

It should be entered in vbseocp->Custom Rewrite Rules.

MJadmin · #15 12-11-2006, 03:27 PM

Should I copy paste as is? everything? with quotes ?
EDIT: I copied above and pasted as is in Custom Rewrite Rules box.
And nothing happened look here: Mobile Junction Forum - Downloads - Themes

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