Reviewpost SEO

T2DMan · #1 19th Jan 06, 04:41 PM

vBulletin Reviewpost SEO version 2.8.2 (current version is 3.1.1) - In the course of my SEO'ing of vBulletin, I get to SEO the associated packages.

Make sure that you have the spider friendly url's option on:
Settings - Edit options - Global options
option: Use Spider-friendly URLs?

Issues -

all the titles are around the wrong way corrected
and the meta descriptions are all the same - same as the default vBulletin meta description. corrected
and the html could do with some better validating - a number of errors, but not really worth correcting - I have greped to find a few in the code like <img 's not closed />, plus other issues
There is no firstwords section.
The h1 is set as the main forum - should be each pages info - not fixed
with the spider friendly url's, there are a number of duplicate url's

like

showcat.php/cat/10/page/1

should be showcat.php/cat/10/

and

/showproduct.php/product/3/cat/8

which is also

/showproduct.php/product/3

reviews/admin-inc.php

find:

Code:

<title>{$Globals['galleryname']} - {$titlereplace} - Powered by ReviewPost

replace with:

Code:

<title>{$titlereplace} - {$Globals['galleryname']} - Powered by ReviewPost

reviewpost classifieds
/reviews/pp-inc.php

replace:

Code:

$theader = str_replace( "<head>","<head><title>{$Globals['galleryname']} - {$titlereplace} - Powered by ReviewPost Classifieds</title>", $theader);

 		 print "$theader $contentmeta $nocachetag $headtags $javapopup $headslide";

Code:

$head="<head><title>{$titlereplace} - {$Globals['galleryname']} - Powered by ReviewPost Classifieds</title>";
		$head.="
<meta name=description content='See {$titlereplace} on our {$Globals['galleryname']}' />
$contentmeta
$nocachetag
$javapopup";
		$theader = str_replace( "<head>",$head, $theader);

			print "$theader  $headtags  $headslide";

Add in the following plugin:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<plugins>
	<plugin active="1" product="vbulletin">
		<title>Reviewpost SEO</title>
		<hookname>parse_templates</hookname>
	 <phpcode><![CDATA[if(strstr($HTTP_SERVER_VARS['SCRIPT_NAME'],"showcat.php" ) or strstr($HTTP_SERVER_VARS['SCRIPT_NAME'],"showproduct.php" )) $reviewpost=true;]]></phpcode>
	</plugin>
</plugins>

and update the headinclude template to be the following:

Code:

<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT=='member' or $reviewpost"><else />

T2DMan · #2 19th Jan 06, 11:44 PM

Find in showcat.php

Code:

 	 if ( $Globals['spider'] == "yes" ) $tplink[$tpfound] = "{$Globals['maindir']}/showproduct.php/product/{$tpphoto[$tpfound]}/cat/{$tpcat[$tpfound]}";
		else $tplink[$tpfound] = "{$Globals['maindir']}/showproduct.php?product={$tpphoto[$tpfound]}&amp;cat={$tpcat[$tpfound]}";

the categories are not needed, and just cause duplication of the url's

replace with

Code:

 	 if ( $Globals['spider'] == "yes" ) $tplink[$tpfound] = "{$Globals['maindir']}/showproduct.php/product/{$tpphoto[$tpfound]}";
		else $tplink[$tpfound] = "{$Globals['maindir']}/showproduct.php?product={$tpphoto[$tpfound]}";

index.php- the /index.php is not needed

replace

Code:

$childnav = "<span class=\"small\"><a href=\"{$Globals['maindir']}/index.php\">{$Globals['pp_lang']['home']}</a> $childnav</span>";

with

Code:

$childnav = "<span class=\"small\"><a href=\"{$Globals['maindir']}/\">{$Globals['pp_lang']['home']}</a> $childnav</span>";

pp_inc.php - pagination duplicate when page one

replace

Code:

 				 if ( $Globals['spider'] == "yes" )
					 $childnav = strip_empty("> <a href=\"{$Globals['maindir']}/showcat.php/cat/$parid/page/$page\">$tusername</a> $childnav");
					else
					 $childnav = strip_empty("> <a href=\"{$Globals['maindir']}/showcat.php?cat=$parid&amp;page=$page\">$tusername</a> $childnav");

with

Code:

 				 if ( $Globals['spider'] == "yes" ) {
					 if($page<>1) $xpage="/page/$page"; else $xpage="";
		 			$childnav = strip_empty("> <a href=\"{$Globals['maindir']}/showcat.php/cat/$parid{$xpage}\">$tusername</a> $childnav");
						
					 } else {
					 if($page<>1) $xpage="&amp;page=$page"; else $xpage="";
		 			$childnav = strip_empty("> <a href=\"{$Globals['maindir']}/showcat.php?cat=$parid{$xpage}\">$tusername</a> $childnav");

showproduct.php

change

Code:

 $childnav = "<span class=\"small\"><a href=\"{$Globals['maindir']}/index.php\">{$Globals['pp_lang']['home']}</a> $childnav</span>";

to

Code:

 $childnav = "<span class=\"small\"><a href=\"{$Globals['maindir']}/\">{$Globals['pp_lang']['home']}</a> $childnav</span>";

showcat.php

change

Code:

$childnav = "<a href=\"{$Globals['maindir']}/index.php\">{$Globals['pp_lang']['home']}</a> $childnav";

to

Code:

$childnav = "<a href=\"{$Globals['maindir']}/\">{$Globals['pp_lang']['home']}</a> $childnav";

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