Can vBSEO work with vB Hacks like Downloads?

Hello NightNinja,

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

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

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:

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.

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.

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?

Hello,

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

Hi,

here is a CRR for this:

Code:

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

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