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Customizing SMF => Modifications and Packages => Topic started by: Bugo on February 15, 2011, 03:48:12 PM
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Link to Mod (https://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=2659)
This mod might help you solve some problems associated with indexing of your forum by search engines.
Features:
- Managing of description & title metatags for your forum's frontpage, board and topic pages.
- Smart descriptions for board/topic pages.
- Templates for titles of topic/board pages.
- Open Graph meta-tags support.
- Twitter Cards and JSON-LD markup support.
- Ability to specify the verification codes when adding sites to Google, Yandex and Bing (Webmaster Tools).
- Adding of custom metatags.
- Changing the robots.txt from Settings page.
- Generator for robots.txt file.
- Simple Sitemap XML.
- Favicon Support.
- Other small changes to improve the indexing of your forum.
This work is licensed under the Artistic License 2.0 (https://opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license-2.0)
Russian Support (https://dragomano.ru/mods/optimus) | Donate (https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=SJLXR6X7XGEDC) | This project on GitHub (https://github.com/dragomano/Optimus)
Optimus 2.0 beta (https://github.com/dragomano/Optimus/tree/develop) (for SMF 2.1 Beta 3+)
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I like this mod! 8)
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Nice mod...
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very nice mod, just installed it on my RC5 8)
the only thing is that my error log is flooded with the following error:
index.php?action=dlattach;attach=####;type=avatar
8: Undefined index: current_action
/Sources/Subs-Optimus.php
Line: 17 any suggestions?
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I fixed it, try new version :)
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thanks for the update :)
just installed it, will update you if the issue is fixed.
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Nice mod Bugo :)
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Bugo, that fix did the job :D
many thanks for the cool mod and great support 8)
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My robots.txt is suggested by this mod:
User-agent: slurp
User-agent: msnbot
Crawl-delay: 120
User-agent: Twiceler
User-agent: Baiduspider
User-agent: W3C-checklink
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
User-agent: YandexImages
Disallow: /forum/
User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile
User-agent: YandexImageResizer
Allow: /forum/*wap
Allow: /forum/*imode
Disallow: /forum/
User-agent: *
Allow: /forum/$
Allow: /*forum$
Allow: /forum/*board*.0$
Allow: /forum/*topic*.0$
Allow: /forum/*rss
Allow: /forum/*sitemap
Disallow: /forum/
Sitemap: http://www.tectonny.com/forum/?action=sitemap;xml
Host: www.tectonny.com/forum
I would not be blocking all my forum? with the expression:
Disallow: /forum/
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Try and learn :)
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I don't know what i did to cause this error, but i just noticed it...
http://xxx/index.php?action=admin;area=modsettings;sa=optimus
8: Uninitialized string offset: 0
File: /home/xxx/domains/xxx/public_html/Themes/default/Optimus.template.php
Line: 83
http://xxx/index.php?action=admin;area=modsettings;sa=optimus
8: Uninitialized string offset: 0
File: /home/xxx/domains/xxx/public_html/Themes/default/Optimus.template.php
Line: 80
I can't recreate it
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I don't know what i did
And how I can resolve this problem?
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i don't want help, i just informing...
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Well, maybe this problem appears only for the first time but after saving of settings it disappears.
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Try and learn :)
Hello dear, I am wrong in my conclusion? Sorry do not understand is why robots.txt
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Another question, where I place the robots.txt? In the forum folder in the rais of the site?
http://www.tectonny.com/forum/robots.txt
or
http://www.tectonny.com/robots.txt
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2 link.
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Use link the two? With the same content?
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Well, if you don't know what a robots.txt and how to fill it — please, don't install this mod. At first, read http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html
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thanks bro.
What is the meaning of
Allow: /$
Thanking you.
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The mod recommended me below robots.txt
User-agent: *
Allow: /$
Allow: /*board*.0$
Allow: /*topic*.0$
Allow: /*rss
Allow: /*sitemap/?xml
But i dont know what i allowing robots in my forum by the line "Allow: /$"
Plz tell me what is the meaning of that line. Is that carrying out any personal content from my forum?
Thanking you.
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This line — "Allow: /$" it's a main page (only main page!) of your forum (i.e: http://www.yourforum/).
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Now my doubt cleared.
Thanks for your quick reply.
Wish You All The Best.
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This mode added my homepage's title twice in google search results.
I leaved the index bar blank in optimusbrave settings to show the homepage title one time on google search results. But, nothing is changed. I also uninstalled the mod. But still my homepage title indexed two times in google results. Plz help me. How can i solve this?
Sorry if i giving any trouble to you.
Thanking you.
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The mod has no relevance to this situation.
You must to change your forum's title to something other. To do this go to Admin » Configuration » Server Settings » Forum Title => here enter forum name (not adress!) and save settings.
After this you will only have to wait until Google reindex your site.
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http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=422210.msg3144963#msg3144963
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Just i reincluded my websit to google. Last time i used optimusbrave1.6.2
Now i installed optimus brave 1.6.4. I Hope that everything will be fine :)
Thanking you.
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Thanks Bugo.
All my problem is happened by my meta tags. Now every thing is fine.
The new version of optimusbrave is very nice. The recommended format of robots.txt is ultimate.
Thanks a lot for creating this mod
Below iam giving some useful links for our smf users to check their website's strength, and errors.
The below website can help you to create website's meta tags. dont use refresh page meta tag. Because, the meta tag is related with spam problems.
http://www.onlinemetatag.com
The below website can analyze your website's meta description.
http://www.submitexpress.com/analyzer/
Thats all. :)
Thanking you.
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I like this mod, but would take the keys of the number, looks like this {1} could contain just the number 1.
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What do you mean?
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Here's the link the title, appears on page {1} instead of just one page:
http://www.tectonny.com/forum/apoio-tecnico/
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And what? Look at page 2, 3 etc — you'll see {2}, {3} etc. If you don't want see page number, remove
[#]from topic/board title templates in Optimus settings.
If you don't want see { and } symbols — it's another question... :)
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I do not want to see the symbols, I see only the number without the {}.
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Well, I'll add this feature in the next release.
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Okay.
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Ok, try new version.
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Updated, but not decided what I wanted, now we can choose a fixed number to page, but the account appears brace ({}), what I wanted is not the key appears ({}) ... Only the page number alone.
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I do not want to see the symbols, I see only the number without the {}.
I hope that this mod may solve your problem
http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=3052
But, i did not test it. Try this mod yourself with optimus.
Thanking you.
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This problem has been resolved.
There is option "Template of current page number", where you can enter any template. By example: {number}, or number, or [number] etc ("number" - constant).
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The problem is that if we use the fixed number will appear on all pages with the same number.
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And why you use the fixed number? :) You must use the constant — "number". It will be replaced with number page automatically.
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There was no way, tried everything, here's what I tried.
[board_name] - [forum_name] - Página [board_name] - [forum_name] - Página {number}
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Look at screenshots ("666" in mod settings - it's just example).
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Yes, my work well, but not without braces. "{ }"
(https://www.simplemachines.org/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimgbr.in%2Fimages%2F63179327200033548942_thumb.png&hash=681de7f3bedddd9dd503e3c0a27c454f) (http://imgbr.in/viewer.php?file=63179327200033548942.jpg)
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Is difficult to guess replace {number} with number?
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Perfect your explanation, now understood and is working perfectly.
Thanks
Muito Obrigado.
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I liked the update, best explains how the sitemap ....
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Test error:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 6361273 bytes) in /home/user/public_html/forum/Sources/PrettyUrls-Filters.php on line 16
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I was able to generate the sitemap prettyurl disabling, but where is the sitemap? What is the link to the sitemap?
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Log errors with just one minute of use:
Aplicar filtro do tipo: Todos os erros (210) | Indefinidos (210)
Páginas: [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ... 11
Aplicar Filtro: Mostrar apenas as mensagens de erro deste URL
http://www.tectonny.com/forum/index.php?pretty;board=defeito-resolvido;topic=tv-(lg)-mod-20cd2r-desligano-a-cada-3-minuto.0&wap2
Aplicar Filtro: Mostrar apenas os erros com a mesma mensagem
8: Undefined index: subject
Aplicar Filtro: Mostrar apenas erros deste ficheiro
Ficheiro: /home/xxxxx/public_html/forum/Sources/Subs-Optimus.php
Linha: 285
Aplicar Filtro: Mostrar apenas as mensagens de erro deste membro Visitante
Aplicar Filtro: Mostrar apenas as mensagens de erro deste endereço de IP 201.70.91.18
Inverter a ordem cronológica da lista Hoje às 17:40:11
Aplicar Filtro: Mostrar apenas as mensagens de erro desta sessão 0be5af5197d167351ab5c992415bf281
Aplicar Filtro: Mostrar apenas erros deste tipo Tipo de erro: Indefinidos
Aplicar Filtro: Mostrar apenas as mensagens de erro deste URL
http://www.tectonny.com/forum/index.php?topic=28639.0
Aplicar Filtro: Mostrar apenas os erros com a mesma mensagem
8: Undefined index: num_views
Aplicar Filtro: Mostrar apenas erros deste ficheiro
Ficheiro: /home/xxxxx/public_html/forum/Sources/Subs-Optimus.php
Linha: 284
What can be?
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What is the link to the sitemap?
See http://www.tectonny.com/forum/sitemap.xml etc.
Log errors with just one minute of use:
Just relax. I'll fix it next version.
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Looks good.
Good job ;)
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i dont know if sitemap was generated or not even after selecting run now.
also it took away all page titles and now all pages are only titled same as 'forum title'
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can anyone tell me how to get topic title, page number etc?
Template of topic pages title : [board_name] - page
shows only forum name
and also keywords are not added to metatags of topics
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Default values help you to get a proper result:
[topic_name] - page [#] - [forum_name]
If you want add board name just paste [board_name] after (or before) [topic_name] (to field #1):
[topic_name] - [board_name] - page [#] - [forum_name]
Alternative way (add board name to field #3):
[topic_name] - page [#] - [board_name] - [forum_name]
"Add the bold words to the metatag" option work only with enabled "autokeywords for board/topic pages" option.
In the future, when you will ask questions, attach screenshots of your settings. And post link to your forum, with installed mod.
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You forgot to paste square brackets: []
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okay i got this solved but there's one more issue.
if a board has lesser topics and its only for one page, then that board's 1st and only page gives page title as [board_name] - - [forum_name], without page
but if there are two pages of topics in that board then page 1 and page 2 are shown
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This is a feature.
Why did you remove the link to your forum?
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If page is only one, page number not appears.
Can I see a screenshot of your settings?
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the problem is not with topic pages but only with board pages
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If page is only one, page number not appears.
Can I see a screenshot of your settings?
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okay i posted a screenshot of settings above
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Well, I have the same settings but don't have any problem. Do you have any mods that can change page titles/numbers?
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no more mods modifying page titles.
this problem is seen only for boards with topics in 1 page.
if there are 2 pages, then no issue.
for topic pages, i haven't seen any issue
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Can you give me test admin account to PM?
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sent you PM
just append /discus to access SMF at the end of the link i sent
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Well, you forgot to mention you are using an older version of Optimus. Current last stable - 1.7.1, you have - 1.7
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ok done
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Awesome mod!! But there is a error in my errorlog:
http://www.mysite/index.php?action=admin;area=modsettings;save;sa=optimus
8: iconv() [<a href='function.iconv'>function.iconv</a>]: Detected an illegal character in input string
File: /............/............/.........../........./public_html/Sources/Subs-Optimus.php
Line: 430
==>430: $context['small_advice'] = iconv('UTF-8', $db_character_set, $context['small_advice']);
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i find similar errors with Sources/Subs-Optimus.php
it generates sitemap with deleted topic numbers and 404 errors are caused.
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Awesome mod!! But there is a error in my errorlog:
You know, if any mod has errors, it's not longer awesome :) I'll fix it next release.
i find similar errors with Sources/Subs-Optimus.php
it generates sitemap with deleted topic numbers and 404 errors are caused.
Details, please.
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Awesome mod!! But there is a error in my errorlog:
You know, if any mod has errors, it's not longer awesome :) I'll fix it next release.
;D ;D it's still awesome!!! Thanks for looking into it :)
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oops.. those errors were from 1.7
i've just updated to 1.7.1 and let me see for errors after few hrs
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I have a question :)
This is the suggested robots.txt from the Optimus Brave mod:
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /
User-agent: YandexImages
Disallow: /
User-agent: msnbot-MM
Disallow: /
User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile
Allow: /*wap
Disallow: /
User-agent: YandexImageResizer
Allow: /*wap
Disallow: /
User-agent: MediaPartners-Google
Allow: /
User-agent: *
Allow: /$
Allow: /*forum$
Allow: /*page*page
Allow: /*type=rss
Disallow: /*action
Disallow: /*;
Disallow: /*PHPSESSID
Allow: /*board*.html$
Allow: /*topic*.html$
Disallow: /
Crawl-delay: 5
Clean-param: PHPSESSID /index.php
Host: www............com
But i want my arcade to be found by search engines, i have a game site :)
Is this the right robots.txt for me? Because google webmaster tools tels me that 81 links are forbidden by robots.txt,
so that's not a good thing i suppose?
And i have another question:
Please use only the values from content parameter of the meta tags.
Example: <meta name="google-site-verification" content="VALUE" />
What should be the "Value" here?
Sorry for my ignorance :( i will learn one day with the help from you guys :)
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Well, if you will send link to your site (you can do it via PM), I'll try to analize your links and add some changes to next version of mod.
Also, you can register on http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools, add your site there and learn about robots.txt and other things (like <meta name="bla-bla-bla"... etc).
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PM is send :) thank you very much!
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Thank you Bugo for your help!
I have so many questions, i hope it's oke :) Please let me now if i get annoying :P
Just downloaded this pdf file from Google
Google's Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide (http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/www.google.com/nl//webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf)
How does this "Make use of the "description" meta tag" works? Is it implemented in this mod?
Or is it default in SMF?
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Sorry i answer my own question, in your mod it says:
Metatag keywords
Recommended no more than 20.
I should learn to read :P
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now sitemap.xml is not getting generated even after 1 day of scheduling the task.
the existing sitemap.xml is also missing !!!!!!!!!!!
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i wonder why existing sitemap.xml was deleted by new version 1.7.1
i already submitted it to google through webmaster tools and now sitemap cant be found by google
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Thank you for the update!!! I just installed it, will let you know how it works out! ;D
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While trying to generate sitemap, i get this error
"Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 2371411 bytes) in /home/farmaceu/public_html/forum/Sources/Subs-Optimus.php on line 1411"
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Well, ask your hoster about this error. I think you need add line "php_value memory_limit 32M" (or something else — ask hoster) to your .htaccess.
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Ok, this is solved.
But, is there a way to put all of urls in sitemap?
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Why? Any sitemap is not required if there is a proper robots.txt
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Hello
please am having issues with the sitemap, it was generated sucessfully but when i added the sitemap link to may google webmaster tool, it said they cant read it. and the status is X. so i dont know if this how the site map should look like, and why Google could not read through it and giving me this (Error: The last attempt at downloading the Sitemap failed). below is my site map url
http://www.allstudentforum.com/sitemap.xlm
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Try add http://www.allstudentforum.com/common.xml
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Why? Any sitemap is not required if there is a proper robots.txt
And why is there option for making sitemap at all?
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Exactly, it's optional - you can use, you can not use.
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@ Bugo, thanks for the respond, but are you saying that the extension /sitemap.xml is not functional using this mod? or its from my site. well i have added this on you gave me, i will report back if its ok or the error still persist. thanks
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@bugo, i have added this one you suggested http://www.allstudentforum.com/common.xml and am still having the same error on my google webmaster tool. ( Error: The last attempt at downloading the Sitemap failed. URL restricted by robots.txt
We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap)
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You are using a wrong line in your robots.txt:
Allow:/*Sitemap: http://www.allstudentforum.com/sitemap.xml
Correct:
Sitemap: http://www.allstudentforum.com/sitemap.xml
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@ bugo, thanks,its ok now. No more error. Am grateful
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Last Modified: Today
What´s news? :)
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Surprise :)
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nothing :D
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Hello there. I installed this the other day and I am getting a few errors. I will list them here. Please tell me what you think.
8: Undefined index: map_title
File:Sources/Subs-Optimus.php
Line: 997
8: Undefined index: map_thumbnail
File:Sources/Subs-Optimus.php
Line: 996
8: Undefined index: map_direct_link
File: /Sources/Subs-Optimus.php
Line: 995
8: Undefined index: map_frequency
File: /Sources/Subs-Optimus.php
Line: 991
8: Undefined index: map_modified
File:/Sources/Subs-Optimus.php
Line: 990
8: Undefined index: map_url
File: /Sources/Subs-Optimus.php
Line: 971
any ideas?
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I think you're using non-UTF8 charset on forum. To solve this problem open Subs-Optimus.php, find
$file = $boarddir . '/sitemap.xsl';
optimus_file_create($file, $xsl, false);
and replace with:
global $context;
if ($context['character_set'] != 'UTF-8')
$xsl = iconv($context['character_set'], 'UTF-8', $xsl);
$file = $boarddir . '/sitemap.xsl';
optimus_file_create($file, $xsl, false);
Then re-create sitemap via Task Manager.
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That seemed to fix that problem, but I think because of what we changed, I am now getting a new error.
Use of undefined constant infopmi - assumed 'infopmi'
File: l/Sources//ManageSettings.php
same names as all of the ones before, just a different file where the errors are coming from.
One other thing too. LOL
I am getting this from google saying that it doesn't understand this in my robots.txt file. Is this normal?
Clean-param: PHPSESSID /index.php
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2: html_entity_decode() [<a href='function.html-entity-decode'>function.html-entity-decode</a>]: charset `ISO-8859-9' not supported, assuming iso-8859-1
File: /home/gnoll/public_html/testsmf/Sources/Subs-Optimus.php
Line: 161
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hello Bugo , firstly i want to say thanks for this modification , i saw it very useful .. i just made upgrade with the latest version and i saw that is not anymore the fuctions with meta keywords .. i had settings in the last version to use the first bolded words like meta keywords and i think that now is a problem for my forum because i not anymore in settings
could u help me please how to modify for this version to set again this option ?
Thanks in advance
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I think the keywords are useless for forums.
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so, about your opinion is not a problem to don't have seted keywords for any topic ? i have nice positions in engines till now and im afraid to don't lose way ... i have a poker forum where im posting daily tournaments and events .
Now i put the same keywords for all website (portal and forum) which appear in all topics and boards. Give me please some advice how is better to set up
thanks
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Just remove all keywords at all. And wait for indexing updates. Forget about keywords. Think about content ;)
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ok , i removed all ..
we will see the results after a while , hope to be ok
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Hello Bugo ,
Im back with another question about sitemap which is in this modification :)
Today i realised that my forum links wich are in sitemap is looking different than my normal links which are on form and i wanna ask if that is a problem (in my opinion i think yes) and if yes how to repair them to look normal
I will give u some example so see about what im talking :
In forum like is looking like that : domain/2626/a-gray-challenge-a-la-ferguson/
In sitemap link is looking like that : domain/index.php?topic=2626.0
Total different .. question is how engines are looking that
Thank u in advance
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Did you try to create sitemap again?
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no , i had the last one , i have to rebuild it and reupload ? :)
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Open Subs-Optimus.php, find block:
// SimpleSEF enabled?
$sef = !empty($modSettings['simplesef_enable']) && file_exists($sourcedir . '/SimpleSEF.php');
if ($sef)
{
function create_sefurl($url)
{
global $sourcedir;
require_once($sourcedir . '/SimpleSEF.php');
$simple = new SimpleSEF;
return $simple->create_sef_url($url);
}
}
and replace with:
// SimpleSEF enabled?
$sef = !empty($modSettings['simplesef_enable']) && file_exists($sourcedir . '/SimpleSEF.php');
if ($sef)
{
function create_sefurl($url)
{
global $sourcedir;
require_once($sourcedir . '/SimpleSEF.php');
$simple = new SimpleSEF;
return $simple->create_sef_url($url);
}
}
// PortaMx SEF enabled?
if (file_exists($sourcedir . '/PortaMx/PortaMxSEF.php') && function_exists('create_sefurl')) $sef = true;
Then re-create sitemap in Task Manager.
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cool bro , thanks for advice .. now everything is all right :) is looking well
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ok... I installed this on my test system (with 150+ mods - set to test conflicts, overlaps, etc)
everything seems to be working correctly - except the wiki
Fatal error: Cannot use object of type WikiPage as array in /mysite/Sources/Subs-Optimus.php on line 77
$board_page_number = $topic_page_number = '';
if (!empty($context['page_info']['current_page']) && $context['page_info']['num_pages'] != 1)
{
$trans = array("{#}" => $context['page_info']['current_page']);
$board_page_number = strtr($board_page_tpl, $trans);
$topic_page_number = strtr($topic_page_tpl, $trans);
}
any ideas?
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What is "wiki"? Do you mean SimpleWiki mod?
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No, it's Niko's beta SMF wiki mod...http://smfwiki.net/
It calls, http://test.turtleshellprod.com/index.php?action=wiki just before choking
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Unfortunately, this mod doesn't work for me. Wait stable release.
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The wiki mod doesn't work for you? It is working fine for me, just not with Optimus... As for the stable release... I'm not sure it'll ever get done...lol, it's been in beta longer than 2.0 was, I think.
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Possible solution. Find
$board_page_number = $topic_page_number = '';
if (!empty($context['page_info']['current_page']) && $context['page_info']['num_pages'] != 1)
{
$trans = array("{#}" => $context['page_info']['current_page']);
$board_page_number = strtr($board_page_tpl, $trans);
$topic_page_number = strtr($topic_page_tpl, $trans);
}and replace with:
$board_page_number = $topic_page_number = '';
if ($context['current_action'] != 'wiki')
{
if (!empty($context['page_info']['current_page']) && $context['page_info']['num_pages'] != 1)
{
$trans = array("{#}" => $context['page_info']['current_page']);
$board_page_number = strtr($board_page_tpl, $trans);
$topic_page_number = strtr($topic_page_tpl, $trans);
}
}
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that worked. :) thanks!
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http://test.turtleshellprod.com/index.php?action=wiki;page=Special:Upload
Fatal error: Cannot use object of type WikiPage as array in /home/turtleshell/www/test/Sources/Subs-Optimus.php on line 79
;)
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hmmmm.... that link works for me, when I am logged in, so it must be a conflict in the guest settings/permissions
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for SMF 2.0 RC3 ?when? :D
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When pigs fly.
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I installed the mod but according to Webmasters Tools the Robots Text provided with the mod blocked Google bots from crawling the forum . According to WT 383 important pages were blocked plus there was some syntax error. I dropped completely off Google Search.
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I have these files on root of forum but none of them are recognised by google webmaster tools
sitemap.xml.gz
sitemap_images.xml.gz
sitemap_mobile.xml.gz
sitemap.xsl
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Hi I just installed Optimus Brave but I dont know what to add in these fields
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Getting these errors on webmaster tools
[code]Sitemap: /sitemap.xml.gz
Type: ?
Error details: 1 Errors, 0 Warnings.
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Feb 18, 2012
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Well, don't use .gz format. Do you know about Sitemap mod?
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Google only recognizes XML and TEXT fie extensions for sitemaps. You can create your own sitemap with any of the free online sitemap generators like http://sitemapxml.net/ download the file and upload to your server then submit to Google in your Webmaster Tools account.
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hello i have a question.when we use this mod do we leave the meta keywords that are in admin-feature and options blank or fill them out to?
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No difference.
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ok i have one last question love the mod so far by the way great work.anyways the robot.txt generation does it matter if i have pretty urls mod? does the mod account for that or does it matter at all? meaning will the robots.txt be the same either way.
thanks for the help much appreciated
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Thanks for this great mod. But I am having difficulty with Sitemap generation. It is not working at all.
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Topic/board pages settings
After the last update to the functioning of nuperação of pages in the term page displays.
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The only thing i am concerned about is "dupe keywords"
No matter what page content is, it will not generate auto keywords for boards, topics etc...
Would there be a setting to generate auto keywords just like it generate description
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This is not working
"Output board description to the meta-tag description "
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@shubba
It is working by me. If I put this option on, this mod will take the description of the board and use it as the meta description for that board.
@ the creator of the mod
Other small changes to improve the indexing of your forum
Can you be specific and tell us what those changes are? Does this change the breadcrumb homepage link to off?
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But it did not working for me and google show the duplicate meta description.
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But it did not working for me and google show the duplicate meta description.
For me too.
How to display this:
{topic_name}+{category_name}+ - page {#} - +{board_name} - {forum_name}
I need category name in title tag
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{category_name} is not provided.
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{category_name} is not provided.
Could you possibly address my question mate? or possibly point me in the right direction.
Any help would be much appreciated. :)
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I'll add this feature later. Next version, maybe.
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I'll add this feature later. Next version, maybe.
I appreciate it and wait for this feature.
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I'll add this feature later. Next version, maybe.
My bad! its not about category name, but auto generating of keywords based on title or description.
Currently, there is no function to generate keywords like it does for description and title.
Hope i am making sense.
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No need to add "category name", repeat the keywords against the terms and condition of google. I have already remove the forum name. You can contact the any seo.
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I need category name in title description coz I have double posts:
First posts in MP3 (category)
Second posts in Videoclips (category)
Google index my post as doubled title description coz in Mp3 and Videoclips posts are this same name. Only If I add category name to title description - google index this properly
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Everything Mess up after install the meta modification.I am unable to verify the website using optomus brave . How to manaully add it.
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Many thanks!!!
Nice mod!
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Many thanks!!!
Nice mod!
I agree
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Loved this mod, but when I installed it on my SMF 2.0.2 board, ALL of the other choices from the configuration drop-down menu disappeared except for the Optimus Brave one.
When I uninstalled it, they all came back.
Any suggestions?
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Un-install all mods before upgrading SMF.
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That is better I think:
in Subs-Optimus.php
find:
$context['optimus_description'] = optimus_meta_teaser($topicinfo['id_first_msg']);
replace with:
$context['optimus_description'] = optimus_meta_teaser($context['first_message']);
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$context['topic_first_message'] it's best :)
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I use the PortaMx portal, so the homepage title I specified in the mod only shows when I'm in my forum (i.e. at mysite.tld/forum), not when I'm at my "Home"/Portal page (i.e. mysite.tld). Would it be possible to move the homepage title to the Website's homepage, and rename the Forum's homepage as simply "MySiteTitle - Forum"?
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I am using this MOD and it's awesome for SEO :)
Thanks a ton :)
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I use the PortaMx portal, so the homepage title I specified in the mod only shows when I'm in my forum (i.e. at mysite.tld/forum), not when I'm at my "Home"/Portal page (i.e. mysite.tld). Would it be possible to move the homepage title to the Website's homepage, and rename the Forum's homepage as simply "MySiteTitle - Forum"?
Subs-Optimus.php, find
function optimus_home()
{
global $txt, $modSettings, $context;
loadLanguage('Optimus');
$txt['forum_index'] = !empty($modSettings['optimus_forum_index']) ? '%1$s - ' . $modSettings['optimus_forum_index'] : $context['forum_name'];
}
function optimus_operations()
{
global $context, $boardurl, $modSettings, $smcFunc, $txt, $scripturl, $topicinfo, $board_info;and replace with
function optimus_home()
{
global $context, $mbname, $txt, $modSettings;
loadLanguage('Optimus');
// Portal
if(empty($context['current_board']) && empty($context['current_topic']) && empty($_REQUEST['action']))
$context['forum_name'] = !empty($modSettings['optimus_forum_index']) ? $mbname . ' - ' . $modSettings['optimus_forum_index'] : $context['forum_name'];
// Forum
$txt['forum_index'] = '%1$s - Forum';
}
function optimus_operations()
{
global $context, $mbname, $boardurl, $modSettings, $smcFunc, $txt, $scripturl, $topicinfo, $board_info;
// Portal
if(empty($context['current_board']) && empty($context['current_topic']) && empty($_REQUEST['action']))
$context['linktree'][0]['name'] = $mbname;
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Subs-Optimus.php, find
function optimus_home()
{
global $txt, $modSettings, $context;
loadLanguage('Optimus');
$txt['forum_index'] = !empty($modSettings['optimus_forum_index']) ? '%1$s - ' . $modSettings['optimus_forum_index'] : $context['forum_name'];
}
function optimus_operations()
{
global $context, $boardurl, $modSettings, $smcFunc, $txt, $scripturl, $topicinfo, $board_info;and replace with
function optimus_home()
{
global $context, $mbname, $txt, $modSettings;
loadLanguage('Optimus');
// Portal
if(empty($context['current_board']) && empty($context['current_topic']) && empty($_REQUEST['action']))
$context['forum_name'] = !empty($modSettings['optimus_forum_index']) ? $mbname . ' - ' . $modSettings['optimus_forum_index'] : $context['forum_name'];
// Forum
$txt['forum_index'] = '%1$s - Forum';
}
function optimus_operations()
{
global $context, $mbname, $boardurl, $modSettings, $smcFunc, $txt, $scripturl, $topicinfo, $board_info;
// Portal
if(empty($context['current_board']) && empty($context['current_topic']) && empty($_REQUEST['action']))
$context['linktree'][0]['name'] = $mbname;
Worked like a charm. Thanks.
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if i have a robots.txt file on root of my server, do i need to update the contents of it in the mod settings in my forum for this mod?
also, sitemap generated by it contains links like
forum/categoryx
and then
forum/categoryx/xyz
will it point to duplicate content issues?
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if i have a robots.txt file on root of my server, do i need to update the contents of it in the mod settings in my forum for this mod?
also, sitemap generated by it contains links like
forum/categoryx
and then
forum/categoryx/xyz
will it point to duplicate content issues?
1. Nope
2. Are both URLs serving exact same content?
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thnks, problem solved :)
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the frequency is set for daily for boards
can I set it to hourly ?
i.e hourly change in frequency of boards instead of daily?
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The frequency depends on the date of the latest messages in each board. If your messages will be posted every hour then frequency automatically set to "hourly".
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this is the link of xml sitemap made by using this mod
http://testbear1234.site88.net/sitemap.xml
I am using pretty urls
now the sitemap generates the urls and they are not that should be generated by using pretty urls
and clicking on the urls generated by this mod's sitemap, i gt redirected to the index page
how to rectify it
i.e. the sitemap shows urls consistent with pretty urls mod and does not gets redirected to index page
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get rid of prettyurls...
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Recreate the sitemap via Task Manager.
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@Bugo,
We use your mod (optimus brave) and its pretty good actually, but we have a question about it.
You can configure the settings for the board's title tags,
but the sub-boards doesn't have that option yet. So by the sub-boards, the title tags remains the same
and can not be edited yet. Maybe you can create an option to do that? (configure title tags of sub-boards).
Thanks in advance!
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James,
Subboards? Do you mean child boards?
If so, then the display page of a childboard uses the exact same template as the parent board......
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Yes, I mean child boards. I don't understand it. Bugo has made an SEO mod, called "Optimus Brave".
His mod creates better titles and descriptions. You can use the name of the forum in the title tag for example.
This option creates better title tags for all topics and boards, but for child boards, there is nothing to configure.
So the title tags for child boards cannot be optimized.
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What exactly do you want?
Special template for sub boards like "Forum name - Board name - Sub board name - page xxx"?
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James - child boards = boards... the child board will use the exact same profile as every other board.
Template of board pages title
Unless, as Bugo suggested, you are looking for a special template, just for child boards... However, that could get REALLY messy, REALLY fast. (I have seen forums with boards buried 5 or 6 layers deep)
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Just to clarify, this is what I mean:
This URL leads to the affiliate marketing board: http://www.geldverdienenopinternetforum.nl/affiliate-marketing/3/
However, this URL leads to a child board of affiliate marketing, named "clickbank": http://www.geldverdienenopinternetforum.nl/clickbank/45/
As you can see, "Affiliate Marketing - Pagina 1 - Geld Verdienen Op Internet Forum" is the title of the affiliate marketing board, which is excellent.
However, just the word "Clickbank" is the title of the Clickbank child board.
It should be: Clickbank - Pagina 1 - Geld Verdienen Op Internet Forum
And my question is if there would be an opportunity to modify this?
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This child board is empty. OB mod doesn't work with empty boards (it's my idea). Post any topic and you will see changes.
Look at other your child board => http://www.geldverdienenopinternetforum.nl/google-analytics/47/, for example.
If you still want to "fix" OB, do the following:
1) open /Sources/Subs-Optimus.php,
2) find
if (!empty($board_info['total_topics']))and replace with:
if (!empty($board_info['name']))
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i just installed Optimus Brave and i don't want to make mistakes
1. looking at the first image, do i need to include "meta-tag" (whether html or bbc) or should i leave it like that?
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-VNeFdfMJZ7s/UEIG7Dws0wI/AAAAAAAAAHo/_FQfNTZlUGw/s989/Capture.PNG)
2. Looking at the second image, i dont understand this "robots.txt" very well. i only included the code that someone here shown on how to block "link Profile" . i also saw many other codes but in order not to make mistakes.
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-qkulan8jsh4/UEIG7PPrt9I/AAAAAAAAAHs/hbEV_YQXsZ4/s989/Capture2.PNG)
Should i copy all the codes to "robots.txt" box?
are there some i should select from?
or any smf tutorials concerning robots.txt??
here are the following robots.txt i saw in the "Generator of rules"
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /
User-agent: YandexImages
Disallow: /
User-agent: msnbot-MM
Disallow: /
User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile
Allow: /*wap
Disallow: /
User-agent: YandexImageResizer
Allow: /*wap
Disallow: /
User-agent: MediaPartners-Google
Allow: /
User-agent: *
Allow: /$
Allow: /*action=.xml
Disallow: /*action
Disallow: /*wap
Disallow: /*board=*wap
Disallow: /*topic=*wap
Disallow: /*topic=*.msg
Disallow: /*topic=*.new
Disallow: /*;
Disallow: /*PHPSESSID
Allow: /*board
Allow: /*topic
Disallow: /
Crawl-delay: 5
Clean-param: PHPSESSID /index.php
Host: topnichez.com
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1. Just make a short description (not keywords!) of your forum. Example: "The best forum in the world"...
2. Shouldn't, but can. It's not necessary.
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Thanks but i saw another thing under "Search team" take a look, they said my page has been indexed
what will i do?
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-cJ6MgJTBLCg/UEI_xtKG_VI/AAAAAAAAAIM/ujzcXenfVfc/s848/Capture.PNG)
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Just wait... some days... or weeks. It depends on indexing & traffic :)
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Beautiful mod! Thank you so very much for taking the time to give the world (well, ok, the SMF world) such a great present.
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Where can i change Page into Pagina.
Please see attachment.
Great mod by the way ;)
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Admin -> Configuration -> SEO -> Common settings, 2 options: Template of board pages title and Template of topic pages title
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Briljant Bugo
Thanx for tje quick answer.
Greetings from the Netherlands ;)
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Just one question:
My error-log shows always:
"Datenbankfehler: Duplicate entry '32767' for key 1"
So - to me it seems, that it isn't possible to store more than 32767 Search-Terms in the database ?
Ok - but is there a way to stop the mod trying to put more terms to the database if the number of terms already reached 32767...?
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Just change column (name "id") type from SMALLINT to INT - see search_terms table in your database.
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Ahhh - perfect ! Thanks :-)
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no questions but just in one tiny sweet sentence, this package is a MUST for all SMF forums
thumbs up Bugo
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Is it possible for META Description tag to have not first sentence, but for example first 200 characters from the post? That would be awesome.
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In the verification metatags section, what type of text am i supposed to be putting in the boxes?
Thanks.
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What is written there?
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In the verification metatags section, what type of text am i supposed to be putting in the boxes?
Thanks.
When you try to verify your Site in Google Webmasters Tool, Bing etc., you will get a small verification snippet. You need to enter these snippets in these boxes
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35179
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can somebody guide me on how to set this mod for my site to be search engine friendly
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Hi there, I'm using Optimus Brave but am running into a problem. It won't change the meta description no matter how I enter the settings. I went to my index.template.php file and saw that I had a meta description in there that it was pulling. But when I remove it, the forum still won't show what I'm asking it to via Optimus. Any ideas? Thanks.
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You shouldn't change nothing in index.template.php, never. This mod doesn't make any edits with files.
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Apart from entering a description in the forum review....and entering the verification metatags....should i be doing anything else with this mod to optimize the results i get?
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Not required, but one can use other tabs of this mod.
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ok, thanks
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Is it possible for META Description tag to have not first sentence, but for example first 200 characters from the post? That would be awesome.
Of course, it's possible. Open Subs-Optimus.php, find this:
if ($smcFunc['strlen']($teaser) < 150) return strip_tags($teaser);and replace with
if ($smcFunc['strlen']($teaser) < 200) return strip_tags($teaser);
Then find this:
$teaser = $smcFunc['substr']($teaser, 0, 150);and replace with
$teaser = $smcFunc['substr']($teaser, 0, 200);
Finally, find
$result = !empty($tmp1) ? $tmp1 : (!empty($tmp2) ? $tmp2 : (!empty($tmp3) ? $tmp3 : rtrim($teaser)));and replace with
$result = rtrim($teaser);
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Great mod! Where are the controls in the Admin Panel?
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You wouldn't believe me — Admin Panel => Configuration => Search Engine Optimization :)
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It's not that - I thought I would get a faster response in the support thread.
Anyway - it was my lack of attention. i uploaded but did not hit "install"
Sorry LOL!
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So back to my original post. Whether or not I edit the index.template.php file is irrelevant. The mod still won't change the meta description no matter how I enter the settings.
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Anyone? Optimus Brave, though I ask it to, won't change the meta description anywhere. Any ideas?
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Try to use original index.template.php, without ANY changes.
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Try to use original index.template.php, without ANY changes.
As far as I know, that's what I'm doing. :) Can you tell me what parts are essential so I can check them with the SMF default? Or if you know of a quicker, easier way, I'd certainly appreciate that as well.
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i am not getting what to write in
Search engine (Tools)
Google (Webmasters tools)
Yandex (Yandex.Webmaster)
MSN (MSN Webmaster Tools)
Yahoo (Yahoo Site Explorer)
Alexa (Alexa Site Tools)
can you please elaborate??
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If you don't know what to write, leave these fields blank.
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i am not getting what to write in
Search engine (Tools)
Google (Webmasters tools)
can you please elaborate??
You need to enter Meta Verification Tags in these fields: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35659
Google matters the most :)
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Does it support 1.16 version?
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did you even bother to read the mod download page?
Compatible With:
2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2
so. no.
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I can not get the sitemap generator to work using 2.0.2, There is no option in the Scheduled Tasks to enable Sitemap Generation task?
When you go to
Administration Center » Search Engine Optimization »robots.txt in the place where the options should be under Search Engine Optimization it just says "Do you want a simple sitemap? Optimus Brave can generate sitemap.xml for small forums. Just go to Scheduled Tasks and enable Sitemap Generation task.. " But as i say there is no option for this in scheduled tasks??????
any idea's ???
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How did you install it? Via Package Manager or by hand?
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Via package manager but all is fine, there is still no option for the site map but it has now done one anyway all by it's self lol, well happy with it thanks!!
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Can you make a screenshot of your Scheduled Tasks page?
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Bugo thanks for the great mod. Can you help me with something possibly small related to the sitemap?
The sitemap is generating, but each link in the sitemap, when I click it, just leads to to the main index page. Is this normal? Should the sitemap links not go direct to the specific topics for the search engines?
Sitemap URL
http://www.dropkickrugby.com/forum/sitemap.xml
(http://www.dropkickrugby.com/forum/sitemap.xml)
Many thanks for any thoughts.
kind regards
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Try to run task "Creating of Sitemap" in Scheduled Tasks by hand.
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Hi Bugo,
thanks for getting back to me.
I tried that, and yet the sitemap on the url is the same- every link on it, when clicked, just goes to the index.
Can you try it and see if they all go to the index for you too?
http://www.dropkickrugby.com/forum/sitemap.xml
Do you have any other ideas as to what is wrong?
Thanks
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ok, joey... the links in your sitemap work fine for me... each of them links to a specific BOARD, exactly as it should
it looks like you have some silly "SEO" or "pretty urls" mod... I'd say get rid of it, it's useless and will cause mor eproblems than it supposedly solves.!
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All links work fine for me too. Try to update cache in your browser.
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hey guys - i cleared my cache and it's still the same. Even when I try it in IExplorer, every link takes me to this page
http://www.dropkickrugby.com/forum/index
but comes up like this in the browser address
http://www.dropkickrugby.com/forum/index.php?topic;=87.0
am I going crazy? ( maybe i am!)
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Disable/Uninstall your SEO mod (Pretty URLs or what you are using) and then re-create Sitemap via Scheduled Tasks.
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Hi Bugo, thanks for getting back to me. Can I then go back to using pretty URL after doing that?
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no.... and, as I said - pretty urls will cause problems with lots of mods (and is not necessary)
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Hi,
I installed this mod. It seems like it would great. Only problem is that none of my titles changed they are still the same.
www.2strokecentral.com/index.php
it should be www.2strokecentral.com/home
Is there something I'm not doing or I should do?
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This mod does not change the urls at all, since urls have very little, if any, effect on search engine ranking.
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Hi kindred,
I agree they dont do alot for SEO (maybe a little according to some people) but as an internet user myself i'm FAR more likely to click on a link if it's not a jumble of numbers - but words relevant to what im looking for
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You're in the minority actually - the WSJ and YouTube, consistently in the top 10 sites online, do not bother with 'nice' URLs.
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im not in any minority or majority actually - said 'maybe' a little. From what i've read. That's all.
And youtube being owned by google means theyll get the most favourable traffic anyway, so not sure theyre a good example. Plus, with the volume and uploaders writing headings, its not practical for them to make pretty urls.
Again, i dont know, but alot of people online say they matter. Again, not here to argue with you....................................
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And here's the other thing... remember that you're not writing all the topics on the forum, your *users* are, and I guarantee users will not care about keywords and whatnot in titles.
I'm not asking you to believe what I'm saying. Nor am I asking you to argue. I'm asking you to take what I'm saying and think about it.
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Turkish translation
$txt['optimus_main'] = 'Optimus Brave';
$txt['optimus_title'] = 'Arama Motoru Optimizasyonu';
$txt['optimus_common_title'] = 'Genel ayarlar';
$txt['optimus_common_desc'] = 'Bu sayfada forum açıklamasını değiştirebilir, sayfa başlıklarının şablonlarını yönetebilirsiniz.';
$txt['optimus_verification_title'] = 'Meta etiketleri doğrulaması';
$txt['optimus_verification_desc'] = 'Bu sayfada aşağıdaki listeden herhangi bir genel veya doğrulama kodu ekleyebilirsiniz.';
$txt['optimus_robots_title'] = 'robots.txt';
$txt['optimus_robots_desc'] = 'Bu sayfada forum haritası oluşturmanın bazı seçeneklerini değiştirebilirsiniz, bunun yanı sıra özel üreteci kullanarak bir robots.txt dosyası değiştirebilirsiniz.';
$txt['optimus_terms_title'] = 'Arama terimleri';
$txt['optimus_terms_desc'] = 'Arama terimleri insanların forumunuzu bulmak için arama motorlarının arama formlarına yazdığı kelime ve ifadelerdir.';
$txt['optimus_main_page'] = 'Anasayfa';
$txt['optimus_common_info'] = 'Peki, eğer robot bir sayfa ile bir arama sorgusunun eşleştiğini belirlerse açıklama etiketi içeriği dikkate alınabilir.';
$txt['optimus_portal_index'] = 'Portal anasayfa başlığı';
$txt['optimus_forum_index'] = 'Forum anasayfa başlığı';
$txt['optimus_description'] = 'Kısa ama ilginç bir forum yorumu<br /><span class="smalltext"><em>description</em> etiketinin içeriği olarak kullanılacaktır.</span>';
$txt['optimus_all_pages'] = 'Konu/bölüm sayfalarının ayarları';
$txt['optimus_tpl_info'] = 'Olası değişkenler:<br/><strong>{board_name}</strong> — bölüm adı, <strong>{topic_name}</strong> — konu başlığı,<br/><strong>{#}</strong> — geçerli sayfa numarası, <strong>{cat_name}</strong> — kategori adı, <strong>{forum_name}</strong> — forumunuzun adı.';
$txt['optimus_board_tpl'] = 'Bölüm sayfalarının başlık şablonu';
$txt['optimus_topic_tpl'] = 'Konu sayfalarının başlık şablonu';
$txt['optimus_templates'] = array(
'board' => array('{board_name}', ' - sayfa {#} - ', '{forum_name}'),
'topic' => array('{topic_name}', ' - sayfa {#} - ', '{board_name} - {forum_name}')
);
$txt['optimus_board_description'] = 'Bölüm açıklamasını meta-etikete gönder <em>description</em>';
$txt['optimus_topic_description'] = 'Konunun ilk mesajının ilk cümlesini meta-etikete gönder <em>description</em>';
$txt['optimus_404_status'] = 'İstenen sayfa durumuna göre <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes" target="_blank">403/404 kodunu</a> getir';
$txt['optimus_404_page_title'] = '404 - Sayfa bulunamadı';
$txt['optimus_404_h2'] = 'Hata 404';
$txt['optimus_404_h3'] = 'Üzgünüm, ama istenilen sayfa bulunamadı.';
$txt['optimus_403_page_title'] = '403 - Erişim Yasak';
$txt['optimus_403_h2'] = 'Hata 403';
$txt['optimus_403_h3'] = 'Üzgünüm, ancak bu sayfaya erişim hakkınız yok.';
$txt['optimus_codes'] = 'Doğrulama meta etiketleri';
$txt['optimus_titles'] = 'Arama Motoru (Araçları)';
$txt['optimus_name'] = 'Adı';
$txt['optimus_content'] = 'İçerik';
$txt['optimus_meta_info'] = ' Lütfen sadece <strong>content</strong> meta etiketinin parametre değerlerini kullanın.<br />Örneğin: <span class="smalltext"><meta name="google-site-verification" content="<strong>SAĞ SÜTUNA YAPIŞTIRMANIZ GEREKEN DEĞER</strong>" /></span>';
$txt['optimus_search_engines'] = array(
'Google' => array('google-site-verification','<a href="http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools" target="_blank">Web Yöneticisi Araçları</a>'),
'Yandex' => array('yandex-verification','<a href="http://webmaster.yandex.com/" target="_blank">Yandex.Web Yöneticisi</a>'),
'MSN' => array('msvalidate.01','<a href="http://www.bing.com/webmaster" target="_blank">MSN Web Yöneticisi Araçları</a>'),
'Yahoo' => array('y_key','<a href="https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/" target="_blank">Yahoo Site Tarayıcısı</a>'),
'Alexa' => array('alexaVerifyID','<a href="http://www.alexa.com/siteowners" target="_blank">Alexa Site Araçları</a>')
);
$txt['optimus_counters'] = 'Sayaçlar';
$txt['optimus_counters_desc'] = 'Bu bölümde forumunuza ziyaretleri hesaplamak için sayaç çeşitleri ekleyebilir veya değiştirebilirsiniz.';
$txt['optimus_stat_code'] = 'Görünmez sayaçlar (<a href="http://www.google.com/analytics/sign_up.html" target="_blank">Google Analytics</a>, <a href="http://piwik.org/" target="_blank">Piwik</a> etc)';
$txt['optimus_count_code'] = 'Görünür sayaçlar (<a href="http://www.freestats.com/" target="_blank">FreeStats</a>, <a href="http://www.superstats.com/" target="_blank">SuperStats</a>, <a href="http://www.prtracker.com/FreeCounter.html" target="_blank">PRTracker</a> etc)';
$txt['optimus_ignored_actions'] = 'Yoksayılan eylemler';
$txt['optimus_sitemap_section'] = 'Forum haritası';
$txt['optimus_sitemap_desc'] = 'Basit bir site haritası ister misiniz? Optimus Brave küçük forumlar için sitemap.xml oluşturabilir. Sadece <a href="?action=admin;area=scheduledtasks;sa=tasks" target="_blank">Zamanlanmış Görevler</a>e gidin ve Site Haritası Oluşturma görevini etkinleştirin.';
$txt['optimus_manage'] = 'Robots.txt yönet';
$txt['optimus_robots_old'] = 'Eski (yüklemeden önceki) robots.txt içeriğini <a href="/old_robots.txt" target="_blank">bu bağlantıdan</a> görebilirsiniz.';
$txt['optimus_links_title'] = 'Faydalı bağlantılar';
$txt['optimus_links'] = array(
'.htaccess düzenleme' => 'http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/howto/htaccess.html',
'robots.txt kullanımı' => 'http://help.yandex.com/webmaster/?id=1113851',
'robots.txt dosyası kullanarak sayfaları engelleme veya kaldırma' => 'http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156449'
);
$txt['optimus_rules'] = 'Kural oluşturucu';
$txt['optimus_rules_hint'] = 'Siz sağdaki alana bu kuralları kopyalayabilirsiniz:';
$txt['optimus_robots_hint'] = 'Burada kendi kurallarınızı ekleyebilir veya mevcut olanları değiştirebilirsiniz:';
$txt['optimus_other_text'] = 'Lütfen unutmayın';
$txt['optimus_post_scriptum'] = '<span class="alert">Bu değişikliği kendi sorumluluğunuzda kullanın</span>';
$txt['optimus_useful'] = '';
$txt['scheduled_task_optimus_sitemap'] = 'Forum Haritası Oluştur';
$txt['scheduled_task_desc_optimus_sitemap'] = 'Önerilen düzenlilik — günde bir defa.';
$txt['optimus_sitemap_rec'] = ' Optimus Brave dosyaları birkaç parçaya bölemez.';
$txt['optimus_sitemap_url_limit'] = 'Site Haritası dosyası 50.000\'den fazla URL içermemelidir!';
$txt['optimus_sitemap_size_limit'] = '%1$s dosyası 10 MB\'den büyük olmamalıdır.!';
$txt['optimus_search_stats'] = 'Arama terimleri kaydını etkinleştir';
$txt['optimus_chart_title'] = 'Arama terimleri - En İyi %1$s';
$txt['optimus_terms_none'] = 'İstatistikler mevcut değil. Belki forumunuz henüz indekslenmemiştir.';
$txt['optimus_terms'] = array(
'google' => 'q',
'yahoo' => 'p',
'bing' => 'q',
'alexa' => 'q'
);
Turkish-utf8 translation
$txt['optimus_main'] = 'Optimus Brave';
$txt['optimus_title'] = 'Arama Motoru Optimizasyonu';
$txt['optimus_common_title'] = 'Genel ayarlar';
$txt['optimus_common_desc'] = 'Bu sayfada forum açıklamasını değiştirebilir, sayfa başlıklarının şablonlarını yönetebilirsiniz.';
$txt['optimus_verification_title'] = 'Meta etiketleri doğrulaması';
$txt['optimus_verification_desc'] = 'Bu sayfada aşağıdaki listeden herhangi bir genel veya doğrulama kodu ekleyebilirsiniz.';
$txt['optimus_robots_title'] = 'robots.txt';
$txt['optimus_robots_desc'] = 'Bu sayfada forum haritası oluşturmanın bazı seçeneklerini değiştirebilirsiniz, bunun yanı sıra özel üreteci kullanarak bir robots.txt dosyası değiştirebilirsiniz.';
$txt['optimus_terms_title'] = 'Arama terimleri';
$txt['optimus_terms_desc'] = 'Arama terimleri insanların forumunuzu bulmak için arama motorlarının arama formlarına yazdığı kelime ve ifadelerdir.';
$txt['optimus_main_page'] = 'Anasayfa';
$txt['optimus_common_info'] = 'Peki, eğer robot bir sayfa ile bir arama sorgusunun eşleştiğini belirlerse açıklama etiketi içeriği dikkate alınabilir.';
$txt['optimus_portal_index'] = 'Portal anasayfa başlığı';
$txt['optimus_forum_index'] = 'Forum anasayfa başlığı';
$txt['optimus_description'] = 'Kısa ama ilginç bir forum yorumu<br /><span class="smalltext"><em>description</em> etiketinin içeriği olarak kullanılacaktır.</span>';
$txt['optimus_all_pages'] = 'Konu/bölüm sayfalarının ayarları';
$txt['optimus_tpl_info'] = 'Olası deÄŸiÅŸkenler:<br/><strong>{board_name}</strong> — bölüm adı, <strong>{topic_name}</strong> — konu baÅŸlığı,<br/><strong>{#}</strong> — geçerli sayfa numarası, <strong>{cat_name}</strong> — kategori adı, <strong>{forum_name}</strong> — forumunuzun adı.';
$txt['optimus_board_tpl'] = 'Bölüm sayfalarının başlık şablonu';
$txt['optimus_topic_tpl'] = 'Konu sayfalarının başlık şablonu';
$txt['optimus_templates'] = array(
'board' => array('{board_name}', ' - sayfa {#} - ', '{forum_name}'),
'topic' => array('{topic_name}', ' - sayfa {#} - ', '{board_name} - {forum_name}')
);
$txt['optimus_board_description'] = 'Bölüm açıklamasını meta-etikete gönder <em>description</em>';
$txt['optimus_topic_description'] = 'Konunun ilk mesajının ilk cümlesini meta-etikete gönder <em>description</em>';
$txt['optimus_404_status'] = 'İstenen sayfa durumuna göre <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes" target="_blank">403/404 kodunu</a> getir';
$txt['optimus_404_page_title'] = '404 - Sayfa bulunamadı';
$txt['optimus_404_h2'] = 'Hata 404';
$txt['optimus_404_h3'] = 'Üzgünüm, ama istenilen sayfa bulunamadı.';
$txt['optimus_403_page_title'] = '403 - EriÅŸim Yasak';
$txt['optimus_403_h2'] = 'Hata 403';
$txt['optimus_403_h3'] = 'Üzgünüm, ancak bu sayfaya erişim hakkınız yok.';
$txt['optimus_codes'] = 'DoÄŸrulama meta etiketleri';
$txt['optimus_titles'] = 'Arama Motoru (Araçları)';
$txt['optimus_name'] = 'Adı';
$txt['optimus_content'] = 'İçerik';
$txt['optimus_meta_info'] = ' Lütfen sadece <strong>content</strong> meta etiketinin parametre deÄŸerlerini kullanın.<br />ÖrneÄŸin: <span class="smalltext"><meta name="google-site-verification" content="<strong>SAÄ SÃœTUNA YAPIÅTIRMANIZ GEREKEN DEÄER</strong>" /></span>';
$txt['optimus_search_engines'] = array(
'Google' => array('google-site-verification','<a href="http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools" target="_blank">Web Yöneticisi Araçları</a>'),
'Yandex' => array('yandex-verification','<a href="http://webmaster.yandex.com/" target="_blank">Yandex.Web Yöneticisi</a>'),
'MSN' => array('msvalidate.01','<a href="http://www.bing.com/webmaster" target="_blank">MSN Web Yöneticisi Araçları</a>'),
'Yahoo' => array('y_key','<a href="https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/" target="_blank">Yahoo Site Tarayıcısı</a>'),
'Alexa' => array('alexaVerifyID','<a href="http://www.alexa.com/siteowners" target="_blank">Alexa Site Araçları</a>')
);
$txt['optimus_counters'] = 'Sayaçlar';
$txt['optimus_counters_desc'] = 'Bu bölümde forumunuza ziyaretleri hesaplamak için sayaç çeşitleri ekleyebilir veya değiştirebilirsiniz.';
$txt['optimus_stat_code'] = 'Görünmez sayaçlar (<a href="http://www.google.com/analytics/sign_up.html" target="_blank">Google Analytics</a>, <a href="http://piwik.org/" target="_blank">Piwik</a> etc)';
$txt['optimus_count_code'] = 'Görünür sayaçlar (<a href="http://www.freestats.com/" target="_blank">FreeStats</a>, <a href="http://www.superstats.com/" target="_blank">SuperStats</a>, <a href="http://www.prtracker.com/FreeCounter.html" target="_blank">PRTracker</a> etc)';
$txt['optimus_ignored_actions'] = 'Yoksayılan eylemler';
$txt['optimus_sitemap_section'] = 'Forum haritası';
$txt['optimus_sitemap_desc'] = 'Basit bir site haritası ister misiniz? Optimus Brave küçük forumlar için sitemap.xml oluşturabilir. Sadece <a href="?action=admin;area=scheduledtasks;sa=tasks" target="_blank">Zamanlanmış Görevler</a>e gidin ve Site Haritası Oluşturma görevini etkinleştirin.';
$txt['optimus_manage'] = 'Robots.txt yönet';
$txt['optimus_robots_old'] = 'Eski (yüklemeden önceki) robots.txt içeriğini <a href="/old_robots.txt" target="_blank">bu bağlantıdan</a> görebilirsiniz.';
$txt['optimus_links_title'] = 'Faydalı bağlantılar';
$txt['optimus_links'] = array(
'.htaccess düzenleme' => 'http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/howto/htaccess.html',
'robots.txt kullanımı' => 'http://help.yandex.com/webmaster/?id=1113851',
'robots.txt dosyası kullanarak sayfaları engelleme veya kaldırma' => 'http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156449'
);
$txt['optimus_rules'] = 'Kural oluÅŸturucu';
$txt['optimus_rules_hint'] = 'Siz sağdaki alana bu kuralları kopyalayabilirsiniz:';
$txt['optimus_robots_hint'] = 'Burada kendi kurallarınızı ekleyebilir veya mevcut olanları değiştirebilirsiniz:';
$txt['optimus_other_text'] = 'Lütfen unutmayın';
$txt['optimus_post_scriptum'] = '<span class="alert">Bu değişikliği kendi sorumluluğunuzda kullanın</span>';
$txt['optimus_useful'] = '';
$txt['scheduled_task_optimus_sitemap'] = 'Forum Haritası Oluştur';
$txt['scheduled_task_desc_optimus_sitemap'] = 'Önerilen düzenlilik — günde bir defa.';
$txt['optimus_sitemap_rec'] = ' Optimus Brave dosyaları birkaç parçaya bölemez.';
$txt['optimus_sitemap_url_limit'] = 'Site Haritası dosyası 50.000\'den fazla URL içermemelidir!';
$txt['optimus_sitemap_size_limit'] = '%1$s dosyası 10 MB\'den büyük olmamalıdır.!';
$txt['optimus_search_stats'] = 'Arama terimleri kaydını etkinleştir';
$txt['optimus_chart_title'] = 'Arama terimleri - En Ä°yi %1$s';
$txt['optimus_terms_none'] = 'İstatistikler mevcut değil. Belki forumunuz henüz indekslenmemiştir.';
$txt['optimus_terms'] = array(
'google' => 'q',
'yahoo' => 'p',
'bing' => 'q',
'alexa' => 'q'
);
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the utf-8 translation did not come across well.
You have to make UTF-8 translations as attachments not as posts
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Thx. Previous post was edited.
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hi, please can someone guide me on what to do to make this mod work properly after installing it what next, i don't understand its setting, please what should i do?
"Output board description to the meta-tag description
Output the first sentence of the topic first message to the meta-tag description
Return 403/404 code depending on the requested page's status "
should i tick the above, can someone explain their functions please.
it also ask for forum title, should put the title again or it'll use my forum title if i don't put it.
Template of board pages title: what should i put here please.
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Hi,
I am having the same problem as someone described before...
I installed this mod via the package manager, all went ok, the addon works well but there is no scheduled task in the list of my scheduled tasks...
Is there any way how to crate the task manually?
Thanks!
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I used this mod to add Google analytics to my site, its working but the whole Google analytics code is showing in the mobile version of my site. is there a fix?
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Is there an example?
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Hi guys! I hit the wall :)
In the "Common settings" menu there are two sections, right - homepage and Topic/board pages settings. Everything in the Homepage settings work fine, but the settings about board and topic don't change the titles. There are no errors in the apache log files and nothing in the admin logs section. Do you have any ideas? Thanks :)
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Any solution for that missing scheduled task please?
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Hi Bugo, thanks for this MOD. I have a question.
If a thread has 5 pages, Optimus would present the thread page with with Page Number. I notice however that all the pages in a thread have the same meta name description.
Is is possible to update this MOD so that it can give a different meta name description for each page of the thread instead of just one meta name description for all the pages of the thread?
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Where the mod should to take different description from? From the first message on every page?
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Yes, first message of the thread. But the first message in the first page is also the meta description in the second, third, fourth, fifth pages.
I checked the vBulletin seo mod and it is not like that way. The second page will take a different first message as meta description, then another meta description for the third page...
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humbleworld, that's just silly, IMO... it's the same thread, why would it have different description?
(and as a note, "that's the way vb does it" is not really a valid argument. VB does a lot of things, many of them poorly (and some of the good)
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humbleworld, that's just silly, IMO... it's the same thread, why would it have different description?
Because the description describes the page, and the first post of the page would *actually* make more sense than reusing the first post of the page.
Consider a 12 page topic like this one. The 12th page comments may or may not have anything at all to do with the original post.
And actually it's not 'vB' that does it that way. It's vbSEO. And other forum systems. Oh, and a certain fork, while I'm at it *whistle*
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Hello Kindred, this is for SEO benefits. Each page of the thread, if it has the same meta content description, will be treated as duplicate by Google. But if each page of your thread has a unique meta content description based on the first sentence of that page, each page will be treated differently by Google, not duplicate. That's why Google would serve search results from a VBulletin from a Page 27 of a thread, not Page 1 or Page 2, depending on the related content being searched for.
Arantor, yes, I agree, it's the vBSEO that is doing this fork.
I'm not going to shift to VBulletin, but I just want a better SEO Mod available in SMF.
Optimus Brave is already a very good one, only that I wish this meta content description would be improved by showing a different content in each page of the thread.
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Arantor, yes, I agree, it's the vBSEO that is doing this fork.
If only that were the point I were making, which it isn't.
The point I was making is that yes, vbSEO does this. So do other forum systems like XenForo. And in fact a certain fork of SMF does this as well (and has done for months)
Just as a clue to those who haven't got the hint yet. Said fork has a developer who is about as anti 'forum SEO' as I am. And *that* developer was the one who implemented this in said fork. What does *that* tell you?
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Arantor, we can all be anti-SEO but I believe it is worth trying following the rules. It's still a cat-and-mouse game, I know, but there are still good things that we'll gain from SEO techniques.
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-sigh- I really wish people would read what I actually wrote. Forum SEO != SEO in general. Please do not assume you know what I mean, because I'm pretty sure you've missed the actual point of what I was saying (and I'm *certain* Kindred will get the point, which is actually arguing in favour of what you're arguing in favour of...)
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[size=78%]And in fact a certain fork of SMF does this as well (and has done for months)[/size]
May I know what Fork are you referring to? Is it a MOD or do we have to do it manually?
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I'm not supposed to talk about it seeing that it is an SMF derivative, that because it's not under an 'open source licence', it is not supposed to be discussed here. The team have been known to remove it from my signature in the past, too.
Suffice to say, it is a heavily modified SMF base, and it would be a truly enormous mod if it were possible to make as a mod. (It would modify EVERY file in SMF, without exception. And be impossible to uninstall after.)
That is what a fork is: a branch off of the software. This software I'm talking about started with 2.0 and started rewriting great chunks of it. The developers today, for example, are finishing up replacing the entire ban system with one that is faster and has features the base SMF package does not. But the fork is not yet publicly available.
We're getting off topic here. Point stands: more systems do actually do different-meta-description-per-topic-page than don't these days, and there are justifications for it.
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Oh, I know what you mean, Arantor. It starts with letter W... A 5-letter word. When the fork is publicly available, I will surely try it in one of my idle domains.
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Oh yes, that's the one. And yes, the rampantly anti 'forum SEO' developer over there implemented this feature months ago.
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Oh yes, I get your point... Not sure that I agree, but I will accept that you have probably done a bit more research into it than I have, currently.
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@bugo....
I have an external page. In fact is my front page since I have SMF in /community.
Code:
<?php
require_once('/path/to/SSI.php');
$context['page_title_html_safe'] = 'Page title goes here';
template_html_above();
template_body_above();
echo '
<hr />
This would be the content sections of the page
<hr />
';
template_body_below();
template_html_below();
?>
Optimus is not reading said page. How can I make it work?
I used the mod's globals and $context and ran a meta tag service and it seems not to see the description. Only the title. I'm stumped.
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Hi, please i don't understand how to set this part of Optimus brave, I've attached the screenshot. Thanks
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Hi, please i don't understand how to set this part of Optimus brave, I've attached the screenshot. Thanks
leave it like that.
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Hi, please i don't understand how to set this part of Optimus brave, I've attached the screenshot. Thanks
leave it like that.
Thanks!
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for some unknown reasons, one site that runs optimus brave's 2011 version, shows sitemap properly and options in admin panel
another site newly converted to smf and running 2.0.4 now has optimus brave 1.8.5 and sitemap shows errors
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Good day to you all , please i noticed today as i was searching for info on google, there was a post from my site, but google was displaying the name of my site as the topic, instead of displaying the topic as it does for other site. I am using optimus bave as my SEO mod, is there i way i can change this and make google display my topics for any match query search for.
I will be grateful for any assistance and if this has been treated please kindly point me to it. Thanks
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Good day to you all , please i noticed today as i was searching for info on google, there was a post from my site, but google was displaying the name of my site as the topic
That's odd, it should be displaying whatever you have as your title(what you have in your title tags)
Checked here, http://www.allstudentforum.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=c3f7f4774213f02f2934cbd32ce2fd15&topic=1460.0 it seems right to me.
Can you put the google search link up?
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This mod does not change the urls at all, since urls have very little, if any, effect on search engine ranking.
Can you post the link to Google stating this?
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Why would search engines tell you how they work? If they told you how they worked, they would be opening them up to abuse from scammers.
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Why would search engines tell you how they work? If they told you how they worked, they would be opening them up to abuse from scammers.
Do they not post guidelines?
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The guidelines are very vague but they do not make any mention of 'pretty URLs' being helpful.
The last guidelines I saw from Google came out a few years ago and concentrate far more on things like having everything actually link together, proper XHTML, and so on. Stuff that SMF does out of the box and has done for years.
A bigger problem is how you expect users to write 'content optimised for search engines'. If you use the 'pretty URLs', the topic's title is what the user gives it. If the URL were a major part of ranking, you've just given users a tool to shoot you in the foot.
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The guidelines are very vague but they do not make any mention of 'pretty URLs' being helpful.
The last guidelines I saw from Google came out a few years ago and concentrate far more on things like having everything actually link together, proper XHTML, and so on. Stuff that SMF does out of the box and has done for years.
A bigger problem is how you expect users to write 'content optimised for search engines'. If you use the 'pretty URLs', the topic's title is what the user gives it. If the URL were a major part of ranking, you've just given users a tool to shoot you in the foot.
They actually encourage you to use pretty URLs (check page 8 on their guidelines).
Personally, I think SEO is fool's gold, and the biggest scam of the century. Setting proper titles, descriptions, and housing good content is important, however, as Google has said it is. When Google encourages behaviors in their guidelines, I don't quite understand the advice to push back on it, especially if you (anyone) doesn't know for certain. Maybe pretty URLs do affect rankings. Maybe they don't. Unless any of us has Google's code sitting in front of us, we don't really know.
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they don't affect rankings. plain and simple. Google has already indicated that CONTENT and proper tagging of content is the way their system works best.
Also, pretty urls on a forum are next to useless. After all - how many posts would we have on this site with the url simplemachines.org/help_me
I have never had any pretty urls on any of my forums, yet they are all ranked very high with the content.
However, as page 8 points out... it is the human factor that could be affected - people looking at the url may be more likely to click it... but that depends on it being actually descriptive - and for forums, that is at the mercy of your users - you as an admin have very little control.
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Which edition of the guidelines? The 2007 or the 2009 edition? The 2007 guidelines does make it clear that it's a bigger factor, but in the 2009 guidelines it's made clearer that it doesn't influence rankings but only possibly clickthrough.
There is a small argument with respect to link sharing and keywords being in the link text, but from a ranking perspective it's very small.
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they don't affect rankings. plain and simple.
You don't know for sure. You're guessing, until you can prove it.
Google has already indicated that CONTENT and proper tagging of content is the way their system works best.
Agreed.
Also, pretty urls on a forum are next to useless. After all - how many posts would we have on this site with the url simplemachines.org/help_me
I have never had any pretty urls on any of my forums, yet they are all ranked very high with the content.
The site would need to be smart enough to make the URLs unique.
However, as page 8 points out... it is the human factor that could be affected - people looking at the url may be more likely to click it... but that depends on it being actually descriptive - and for forums, that is at the mercy of your users - you as an admin have very little control.
I don't disagree.
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You don't know for sure. You're guessing, until you can prove it.
And you'll never get proof. They're never going to tell you how to game their system.
The site would need to be smart enough to make the URLs unique.
That's not hard.
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Which edition of the guidelines? The 2007 or the 2009 edition? The 2007 guidelines does make it clear that it's a bigger factor, but in the 2009 guidelines it's made clearer that it doesn't influence rankings but only possibly clickthrough.
There is a small argument with respect to link sharing and keywords being in the link text, but from a ranking perspective it's very small.
I'm not sure. It says copyright 2010 at the end of the doc, but I'm not sure... It's the first PDF that popped up for 'google seo guidlines'.
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I am guessing... sort of. I am making educated assumptions based on 20+ years of experience in dealing with websites.
and making the url unique is not hard, no... but making it USEFUL is.
help_me, help_me2, help_me3
etc
all useless, actually.... regardless of being unique.
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And you'll never get proof. They're never going to tell you how to game their system.
I agree. Until then, it's speculation.
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I am guessing... sort of. I am making educated assumptions based on 20+ years of experience in dealing with websites.
Same here. I don't think they help either, but I'm not going to tell people they don't (help rankings) unless I know 100% for sure.
and making the url unique is not hard, no... but making it USEFUL is.
help_me, help_me2, help_me3
etc
all useless, actually.... regardless of being unique.
Yes.
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Thank you all for you contributions, it could be from google, but i will look out to see if more search result comes up like this.
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Thank you for this great mod!
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Thanks for the mod!
But I've run into some troubles.
The mod does everything it announced but it seems that I can't get the titles and meta descriptions working. The titles do show fine on my home (tinyportal) and forum but not in any subforum/topic.
And the meta description doesn't change in any, it's just the title.
The rest of the mod works fine (it shows the meta tag for google webmaster, for examples) the previous and next links...
I've been looking into the mod files and tinkering with the forum (removing mods that could conflict) but I haven't achieved anything.
Now for the fun fact: I do have seen the changed titles in a topic but they seem to show in a random fashion (after refreshing the same page some times it poped up and later disapeared, I tried with different browsers and emptying the cache).
Last but not least, here is a diff between a fresh index.template.php and the one I'm using (the differences are some mods):
diff /route/toFreshFile/index.template.php Themes/default/index.template.php
128a129,135
>
> // Bad Behavior Start
> if (function_exists('bb2_insert_head')) {
> bb2_insert_head();
> }
> // Bad Behavior End
>
160a168,179
>
> //Tynt-SMF Tracer Mod Starts Here
> if (!empty($modSettings['tynt_on']) && !empty($modSettings['tynt_userid']))
> echo '
> <script type="text/javascript">
> if(document.location.protocol==\'http:\'){
> var Tynt=Tynt||[];Tynt.push(\'', $modSettings['tynt_userid'] . '\');
> (function(){var s=document.createElement(\'script\');s.async="async";s.type="text/javascript";s.src=\'http://tcr.tynt.com/ti.js\';var h=document.getElementsByTagName(\'script\')[0];h.parentNode.insertBefore(s,h);})();
> }
> </script>';
> //Tynt-SMF Tracer Mod Ends Here
>
215a235,244
>
> if (!empty($modSettings['enableChatBelowPM'])){
> $count = count(chatOnlineUsers());
> if ($count == 0 )
> echo '<li>' . $txt['chat_no_user'] . '</li>';
> elseif ($count == 1 )
> echo '<li>1' . $txt['chat_aUser'] . '</li>';
> else
> echo '<li> ' . $count . $txt['chat_users'] . '.</li>';
> }
344a374,380
> if ($modSettings['badbehavior_display_stats']) {
> if (!function_exists('bb2_insert_stats')) {
> global $sourcedir;
> require_once($sourcedir . '/bad-behavior/BadBehavior-SMF.php'); }
>
> bb2_insert_stats();
> }
410,412c446,448
< {
< global $context, $settings, $options, $scripturl, $txt;
<
---
> {
> global $context, $settings, $options, $scripturl, $txt, $modSettings;
505c541
< ?>
\ No newline at end of file
---
> ?>
My guess is that it is somehow not calling optimus_operations() right int Subs-Optimus, but I don't know how I could check that or where the hook is for calling the function.
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Hi! I have a question: Is the sitemap working perfectly with Pretty URLs MOD? :)
Thanks.
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I don't think so...
prettyurls screws up many things, including this mod. drop it. it serves no really useful purpose.
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it serves no really useful purpose.
Makes the URLs look nice though.
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I suppose it does... but is it worth it, when it has issues with a dozen other mods?
There's another SEO mod around that does nice urls without conflict (at least that's what the authors claim)
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Any mod that rewrites URLs is going to cause trouble. The only solution I can see is if the core does it then plugin authors should fall into line.
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Hi! I have a question: Is the sitemap working perfectly with Pretty URLs MOD? :)
Thanks.
1. Install Optimus.
2. Install Pretty Urls. Enable it.
3. Re-create Sitemap via Scheduled Tasks.
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how to make latest topics come on top of sitemap ?
also frequently updated topic is shown priority text as 'hourly' but priority remains 0.6 and is at bottom of sitemap
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HI, I just installed this and I do not see the option to generate sitemap, any help would be appreciated.
thanks
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Ignore that working fine now
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Hi guys,
can anyone think of any reason why my sitemap still wouldnt be working properly using optimus brave?
http://www.dropkickrugby.com/forum/sitemap.xml
every link is just leading to the index page, and the accursed pretty url's is finally gone ( thanks to the great people on here). I had thought this was screwed up because of pretty urls but I dont think so now
Anyone any ideas ? - I have changed all my URL's so google doesn't like me now probably, and i'd love to get the sitemap working asap.
ignore me guys, i ran it again, and it started working somehow, after i deleted pretty url files.
sorry.
thanks all
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Hi
I hope someone may be able to give me some guidance.
On google my listing is showing with:-
www.follyfoot.org/
A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt – learn more.
I am using the robots.txt suggested in this mod:-
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /smf/
User-agent: YandexImages
Disallow: /smf/
User-agent: msnbot-MM
Disallow: /smf/
User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile
Allow: /smf/*wap
Disallow: /smf/
User-agent: YandexImageResizer
Allow: /smf/*wap
Disallow: /smf/
User-agent: MediaPartners-Google
Allow: /smf/
User-agent: *
Allow: /smf/$
Allow: /smf/*action=.xml
Allow: /smf/*sitemap
Disallow: /smf/*action
Disallow: /smf/*wap
Disallow: /smf/*board=*wap
Disallow: /smf/*topic=*wap
Disallow: /smf/*;
Disallow: /smf/*PHPSESSID
Allow: /smf/*board*.html$
Allow: /smf/*topic*.html$
Disallow: /smf/
Sitemap: http://follyfoot.org/smf/sitemap.xml
Crawl-delay: 5
Clean-param: PHPSESSID /smf/index.php
Host: follyfoot.org
Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks
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The key here is:
Disallow: /smf/
in the User-Agent: * block
That will disallow anything that starts with /smf/
It might be better if you explain what it is you're trying to achieve rather than showing us the code and asking what's wrong with it. I can see cases where that list would be fine.
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Hi Arantor
Many thanks for your quick reply.
I have removed that line now.
It might be better if you explain what it is you're trying to achieve rather than showing us the code and asking what's wrong with it. I can see cases where that list would be fine.
I originally installed this great MOD to help manage the verification Meta tags without having to manually edit files etc.
After installing the MOD, I noticed that it had the ability to do a lot of other useful stuff including the editing of the robot.txt.
I'm no expert as you can probably tell but the developer was kind enough to include some suggested rules which I duly used.
It was only few weeks later that we noticed the description wasn't showing correctly in google.
Many thanks
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i want to install this mod, can anyone can help me to install it correctly
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Hi everyone who has taken the time to read my post, Thank You.
I have searched the board and am unable to find exactly where to find a solution that defines my problem. If this has been covered..please link me up.
My problem seems pretty basic, I assume user error. When using bing webmaster tools seo analyzer, it says no <h1> <meta> <description> .
also it says that robots.txt is blocking sitemap.xml
I used the optimus sitemap section and copy/paste the items it suggested.
I went FTP and deleted robots.txt and resubmitted sitemap to bing...
Google also was blocked by robots.txt
That has allowed access to the optimus sitemap. It seems odd that it would block its own sitemap?
I must have the settings wrong.
could someone point me in the right direction
thanks
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It would not be bad to show up your robots.txt and your forum.
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Hi
Great plugin. I am having issues with the sitemap generation though.
I have installed 1.8.6.2 using the package manager and am running SMF 2.0.4
When I go to scheduled tasks, there is no option for sitemap generation. I do have "Create Forum Map" - is this what I should be running? I have set this to be run every ten minutes, but nothing appears in the task log.
What information can I provide to help debug this issue?
Thanks,
Joe
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When I run this task manually, the sitemap gets generated correctly, but it doesnt seem to run as a scheduled task
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For me the same thing
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Attach your Subs-Optimus.php file.
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not cleaning bbcode in meta description
(https://www.simplemachines.org/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fclub-dhayzone.net%2Fimg_styles%2F20130707001933942.png&hash=28fb86f701be06b8fc2e649a20fff00e)
I would like to use the function
strip_tags for cleaning
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Do not use bbcode or html in the description. Ever. Images are not allowed in the description tag anyway
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Ok, so now I'm a bit confused. My site Nexus7forum.com uses 'Pretty URLs'. Should I not use this mod? I just installed it hoping it would help with indexing. Should I uninstall it? Can anyone tell me what the specific advantages of using this mod for my particular site would be? Thanks in advance and yes, I read this complete board from start to finish before posting this.
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prettyurls are a waste of resources anyway..... and they contribute nothing to SEO
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I'm sure we could have a long debate about whether using a mod like 'Pretty URLs' or not adds value at all to a forum. In many areas of life I've learned that looking at something purely from the 'technical' doesn't always give the complete story. For instance while strictly speaking Pretty URLs might not help SEO at all from a technical standpoint, I think many would agree that a url with meaning or 'familiarity' does make someone more inclined to click on it when compared to a url that is cryptic. Thus, there is a psychological component to why a person clicks a url as well as a 'technical'. I think most would agree that is common sense. Even if only 1 in 20 chooses my URL because it is understandable and hints at the subject matter...compared to another URL that is cryptic...that 1 in 20 is an advantage I want.
With that said, back to my main interest...the advantage of using this MOD for my site. Would this mod help me have more 'site links' in google results and thus have more 'screen real estate' or otherwise increase traffic? Right now when searching for 'nexus 7 forum' in google my site comes up usually within the top 3 listings. My concern is that my competitors seem to have many 'site links' or 'sub-topics' listed beneath their main url and mine does not. My site is large enough that I should have some of these as well and I believe it's because the theme i'm using or setup of my forum is not doing something that these others are. It might not be coincidental that these competitors are predominantly using either Vbulletin or another paid platform.
So again...would this mod help rectify this issue and help increase site links or subheadings on Google results?
Thx in advance.
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Yes we could. We could also note that pretty much all of this has been hashed many times over and the salient points are reiterated every time.
1. There is no actual SEO benefit for pretty URLs.
2. There is an arguable benefit to nicer looking URLs but that doesn't stop YouTube now, does it?
3. This mod does have some SEO improvements.
4. The 'site links' and 'sub links' are not related to this mod but based on having better ranking to those individual pages due to good backlinks.
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Thanks for the response Arantor. #4 was what I was looking for.
Best,
BFM
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Updated the translation, thank you for including them to core :)
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There are some errors in your language files. Please fix them.
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This mod deleted my complete configuration menu in the admin area. I can't administrate the board anymore and have to completetely reinstall everything.
I just can warn you to not use the current version. It seems to have a massive bug in it.
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Sorry, akonze, but I can not replicate your issue.
I use the current version and had no such reaction.
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This mod deleted my complete configuration menu in the admin area. I can't administrate the board anymore and have to completetely reinstall everything.
I just can warn you to not use the current version. It seems to have a massive bug in it.
Just rename Subs-Optimus.php to Subs-Optimus1.php and re-check.
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This mod adds it's own sitemap with credit link regardless of your settings. This can be quite bad for SEO. Any chance of removing the sitemap?
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Disable "Create and periodically update Sitemap XML-file" option in mod's settings.
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Disable "Create and periodically update Sitemap XML-file" option in mod's settings.
That's what I posted originally, I've tried that.
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Is it difficult for you to remove sitemap.xml (see forum's root)?
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I don't mean to seem dense. But how do I know if it's running? I had a please wait... on forever.
I copied everything that needed to be based on what was on the page.
Not certain if it's even running? How do I confirm this? I'm not a programmer, just can do installs I guess. I'm running GT5 as the forum.
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Disable "Create and periodically update Sitemap XML-file" option in mod's settings.
Where is this option? i need disable to remove linktree on my site (simpleportal)
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Really nice mod, I have few questions though:
1. Suggested robots.txt
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /forum/
User-agent: YandexImages
Disallow: /forum/
User-agent: msnbot-MM
Disallow: /forum/
User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile
Allow: /forum/*wap
Disallow: /forum/
User-agent: YandexImageResizer
Allow: /forum/*wap
Disallow: /forum/
User-agent: MediaPartners-Google
Allow: /forum/
User-agent: *
Allow: /forum/$
Allow: /forum/*.xml
Allow: /forum/*sitemap
Disallow: /forum/*action
Disallow: /forum/*board=*wap
Disallow: /forum/*board=*imode
Disallow: /forum/*topic=*wap
Disallow: /forum/*topic=*imode
Disallow: /forum/*;
Disallow: /forum/*PHPSESSID
Allow: /forum/*board*.html$
Allow: /forum/*topic*.html$
Disallow: /forum/
Sitemap: well this one is hidden
Crawl-delay: 5
"Disallow: /forum/" ? Forum is in /forum/ dir and this setting will disallow bots from accessing it? Also, why is "Googlebot-Image" blocked by default? For example, I want images from my site (picture posting is highly valued) to appear everywhere.
2. Inserting html tag for additional ownership verification fails for me, webmaster tools can't detect it (yes, it's formatted properly). Insterting analytics code works, though.
3. Does formatting of allowed "topic" and "board" have issues with enabled "Search engine friendly URLs" setting in SMF?
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that SEF setting is stupid and should not be used anyway.
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Alright, that was short and to the point. :) Any suggestions about other stuff?
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"Disallow: /forum/" ? Forum is in /forum/ dir and this setting will disallow bots from accessing it?
There are more strong methods to prohibit bots any access to your forum. For example, using the rules in .htaccess file.
Also, why is "Googlebot-Image" blocked by default? For example, I want images from my site (picture posting is highly valued) to appear everywhere.
Just remove a line with this rule ("Googlebot-Image" bla-bla-bla).
2. Inserting html tag for additional ownership verification fails for me, webmaster tools can't detect it (yes, it's formatted properly). Insterting analytics code works, though.
Well, try to find information on this question in the Google's help. Maybe, they have changed your html tag etc.
3. Does formatting of allowed "topic" and "board" have issues with enabled "Search engine friendly URLs" setting in SMF?
After enabling this option "topic/board" rules in robots.txt will be changed. And yes,
that SEF setting is stupid and should not be used anyway.
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Well, try to find information on this question in the Google's help. Maybe, they have changed your html tag etc.
Nope, I've double checked that. It just doesn't insert a line in <head>.
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Hi,
I get the following error on my sitemap.xml:
This page contains the following errors:
error on line 3 at column 21: Entity 'nbsp' not defined
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.
How can I troubleshoot this? I have uninstalled/reinstalled the mod, but the same error appears.
Thanks!
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this particular board has refused to show
check the page 2 of this place please
http://www.topnichez.com/index.php/board,10.15.html
could it caused by this mod
please how can i set it to work
thanks
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turn off the silly SEO friendly urls...
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turn off the silly SEO friendly urls...
then it will affect my 2 years urls in search engines. I think this started of recent because other page 2 boards are openings !!
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Excuse me, i am brandnew to SMF and tried to use the optimus brave modification on my board.
But after installation and configuration my board url still is: /index.php/board,2.0.html
I wanted something like "/board1/topc1.html
I already tried to activate/deactivate SMF internal SEO URL (the "?" says, that my server supports SEO URL) and i tried to reinstall optimus brave twice. Still no changes.
Is there anything else my server need to get this done? I host my forum on a namecheap business account. Do i need a .htaccess in my root? I don't see where i could have made an error.
I would love to get some help on this issue.
Thank you and best regards.
Harald
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Welcome to smf.
First... This mod does nothing to the urls. Urls have no benefit to see anyway... This mod only changes things like the title, description and keywords.
Second, if you just started your board, the. Insuggestbthat your turn off the silly seo thing. It serves no useful purpose any more (it was intended for search engines years ago, when they looked for the HTML at the end of a website address) search engines will catalog sites just fine without any silly URL changes.
Third, if you absolutely insist on change the urls you will have to install a mod like pretty urls or smf sef urls.
In both cases, there are potential issues with those urls and other mods
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Hello Kindred,
thank you for your reply. So i totally misunderstodd the use of Optimus Brave ;-) Thank you for the explanation and i see, if i will test pretty url oder sef url. I thought Optimus Brave does this :) Thanks again!
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Is there anyway to do these topic/board settings ?
{board_name} - {forum_name} - page {#}
{topic_name} - {board_name} - {forum_name} - page {#}
if i try to display page {#} in 3rd column, it doesnt show actual number but just shows the word : page {#}, # doesnt get replaced by number.
it only happens if {#} is used in 2nd column.
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Hi all,
Its possible to change the original configuration of that mod on "Display the first sentence of the current page first message as the meta-tag description" to the firsts 50 words, or the 2 firsts sentences? I apreciate to do this on my particular situation.
Thanks in advance.
From Portugal
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It's a great mod, but the whole META description parsing method is imperfect in my opinion.
For example, if someone started their topic with:
"Hello. (content)", the description would look as follows: "Hello", since it's coded to show only the first sentence (ended with dot or exclamation mark).
I have simplified the description function and it should now correctly deal with this issue. In addition it will now also remove the trimmed (cut) last word from the description and empty spaces from the messages started with new line. I would like to point out that I am still coding noob, but there's nothing advanced, so.
Sources/Subs-Optimus.php
function optimus_meta_teaser()
{
global $context, $txt, $smcFunc;
if ($context['is_poll'])
{
$teaser = $txt['poll'] . ': ' . $context['poll']['question'] . ' (' . $context['page_info']['current_page'] . ')';
}
else
{
$request = $smcFunc['db_query']('', '
SELECT SUBSTRING(body, 1, 200)
FROM {db_prefix}messages
WHERE id_msg = {int:id_msg}
LIMIT 1',
array(
'id_msg' => $context['first_message']
)
);
list ($teaser) = $smcFunc['db_fetch_row']($request);
$smcFunc['db_free_result']($request);
}
$teaser = optimus_meta_chars(str_replace('<br />', ' ', parse_bbc($teaser, false)));
$teaser = trim($teaser);
$teaser = str_replace(" ", "", $teaser);
if ($smcFunc['strlen']($teaser) < 150) return strip_tags($teaser);
$teaser = preg_replace('/\s+?(\S+)?$/', '', substr($teaser, 0, 150));
return strip_tags($teaser);
}
Hi all,
Its possible to change the original configuration of that mod on "Display the first sentence of the current page first message as the meta-tag description" to the firsts 50 words, or the 2 firsts sentences? I apreciate to do this on my particular situation.
Thanks in advance.
From Portugal
In the function above just change 150 to 50 in two places.
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Hi,
Thanks Homeland for your work on this. Now i will go to implement this modification, after to see the results i will give my feedback here.
Regards
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this is what i get from the robot text am told to copy to the right. and im not sure its correct
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /
User-agent: YandexImages
Disallow: /
User-agent: msnbot-MM
Disallow: /
User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile
Allow: /*wap
Disallow: /
User-agent: YandexImageResizer
Allow: /*wap
Disallow: /
User-agent: MediaPartners-Google
Allow: /
User-agent: *
Allow: /$
Allow: /*.xml
Disallow: /attachments/
Disallow: /avatars/
Disallow: /Packages/
Disallow: /Smileys/
Disallow: /Sources/
Disallow: /Themes/
Disallow: /*msg
Disallow: /*profile
Disallow: /*help
Disallow: /*search
Disallow: /*mlist
Disallow: /*sort
Disallow: /*recent
Disallow: /*register
Disallow: /*groups
Disallow: /*stats
Disallow: /*unread
Disallow: /*topicseen
Disallow: /*showtopic
Disallow: /*prev_next
Disallow: /*imode
Disallow: /*wap
Disallow: /*all
Disallow: /*action
Disallow: /*PHPSESSID
Crawl-delay: 5
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Thanks Bugo.
All my problem is happened by my meta tags. Now every thing is fine.
The new version of optimusbrave is very nice. The recommended format of robots.txt is ultimate.
Thanks a lot for creating this mod
Below iam giving some useful links for our smf users to check their website's strength, and errors.
The below website can help you to create website's meta tags. dont use refresh page meta tag. Because, the meta tag is related with spam problems.
http://www.onlinemetatag.com
The below website can analyze your website's meta description.
http://www.submitexpress.com/analyzer/
Thats all. :)
Thanking you.
the website u gave to analyze my website meta description seems to be giving me error whenever i try checking it dunno if you can help out
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Hi there,
a very nice Mod! Thanks for sharing it!!!
Just on thing. On my forum (quite big one) almost everytime a Posting ist made the following error shows up:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 4194207 bytes) in /var/www/sites/xxx/html/forum/Sources/Subs-Optimus.php on line 705…“
To me it seems that creating the xml-sitemap for google needs to much memory (probably because it's quite big - 40.000 Urls) ?
Is that right ? Does Optimus Brave updates that file each time a new thread is transmitted?
Ok - one thing would be - to enlarge the memory of course. (Shouldn't actually be a big problem)
But on the other side: Maybe it's worth to do another logic in creating the sitemap.
(i don't know - maybe every hour as a cron-job or something else...? Cause i believe if there is a huge forum and we have rush-hour with many users writings posts, it could quite annoy the server... ;- ) )
Greets,
Thilo
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Just another thought:
Another Solutions would be for example an option to put only the newest 10.000 URLs insinde the sitemap...
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well, since I used this on a site with over 3 millions posts... I think there may be something else going on with you...
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That's interesting.
How many URLs are inside your sitemap.xml ?
Should be more than 50.000, right ?
Can you tell me what's your "allowed memory size" for php on your server ?
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I thought sitemaps individually weren't permitted above 50k URLs anyway?
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If that's so, (and im sure you are right) than a option to set a limit somewhere inside the mod would definetely make sense!
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Just for clarification, http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html says this:
You can provide multiple Sitemap files, but each Sitemap file that you provide must have no more than 50,000 URLs and must be no larger than 10MB (10,485,760 bytes). If you would like, you may compress your Sitemap files using gzip to reduce your bandwidth requirement; however the sitemap file once uncompressed must be no larger than 10MB. If you want to list more than 50,000 URLs, you must create multiple Sitemap files.
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Hi there,
again me. I checked my xml Sitemap and it's already 9 MB.
So there isn't much left 'til it reaches the max. allowed size...
In Kindreds site it should be already way larger than the allowed size.
So for some users it would be a very friendly option to limit the sitemap to a size the board-admin can chose ?
i really would appreciate that!
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I just installed this mod, but it seems I'm missing something somewhere, because I read this on some site:
all you need is to do is to install Optimus Brave in your forum and click Schedule tasks to generate and enable your sitemap
However... I don't see anything about sitemap or Optimus or Brave in the Schedule tasks.
I left every setting default, I only activated to generate sitemap:
Create and periodically update Sitemap XML-file
What am I doing wrong?
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I've seen this problem a couple of times in this 17 page thread, also seen 1 time that it was fixed, but not how it was fixed.
Does anybody have a clue on what's causing this?
No Scheduled task present in the scheduled tasks manager and no option "Create forum map" either.
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I've a strange problem here.
I installed Optimus Brave, but when I looked at the metadata of pages it had not changed anything.
I then read that perhaps Pretty URL didn't work well with it. SO I uninstalled Pretty URLs.
Then I could see Optimus Brave changes in the metadata. So then it worked. Great. Whoohoo.
Anyway I've broken something, because it doesn't work now. Argh!
As a background the things I did that might have messed it up is:
Checking/repairing database because of a crash yesterday (sessions table shown as crashed)
Also, Six of the boards on out forum were using a different theme to the rest of the forum, I changed them back to the overall forum default.
So any pointers on how to get this working again would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
I've attached an image of the settings. Were using SMF 2.0.9.
Armada
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I think I've found the problem and fixed it. :) Hopefully this will help somebody if you have the same problem.
To try and work out what is going on, I had a look at the latest modified files.
I saw something interesting in changes in Load.php by running "diff" to see the changes:
diff Load.php~ Load.php
11c11
< * @version 2.0.7
---
> * @version 2.0.9
2746a2747,2753
>
> // Invalidate the opcode cache
> if (function_exists('opcache_invalidate'))
> opcache_invalidate($cachedir . '/data_' . $key . '.php', true);
>
> if (function_exists('apc_delete_file'))
> @apc_delete_file($cachedir . '/data_' . $key . '.php');
It's something to do with caching.
So I went to my caching options under Admin > Server Settings > Caching and I changed it from "Level 2" caching to "No caching" then went back in and changed it from "No caching" to "Level 1" caching.
Now it works :)
Armada
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How to add download file (all files have title, description and much more) from Download System mod to sitemap?
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Hi. This add on's been working great for the last couple years but I do have a new problem I hope someone can answer for me. Whenever I or someone on my forum tries to upload an attachment, this error pops up. It's only been a recent thing like within the last week.
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 94371840 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 5603761 bytes) in /home/xxxx/xxxxxx_xxxx/community/Sources/Subs-Optimus.php on line 780
Any help would be appreciated. Don't want to have to uninstall this mod :)
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This is more a php error. It might not have to do with this mod specifically. You could try to increase your php memory size to 128 for example.
If you are not your own host, you could try it via a .htaccess file in your public_html root directory with this statement:
php_value memory_limit 128M
or
<IfModule mod_php5.c>
php_value memory_limit 128M
</IfModule>
If this won't work, you have to ask your host.
Since it's only the last week, you could investigate if you have installed other php things which might have increased the memory usage for php.
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This is more a php error. It might not have to do with this mod specifically. You could try to increase your php memory size to 128 for example.
If you are not your own host, you could try it via a .htaccess file in your public_html root directory with this statement:
php_value memory_limit 128M
or
<IfModule mod_php5.c>
php_value memory_limit 128M
</IfModule>
If this won't work, you have to ask your host.
Since it's only the last week, you could investigate if you have installed other php things which might have increased the memory usage for php.
Thanks for the response. I'm a little confused though. I don't see any coding like this to my htaccess file. Do I have to add this or edit this?
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You have to add it to your .htaccess file indeed.
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You have to add it to your .htaccess file indeed.
Does it matter where this goes? Sorry for my ignorance. I'm still learning this web stuff :)
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As far as I know it does not really matter. I mostly put it at the bottom.
Ah you're still learning. In that case. Check your phpinfo what the memory limit is now, and afterwards. That way you can fastly see if it did change.
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Yeah. I do my forum more as a hobby. My day job is merchandising for a major retailer. So I'm a little out of my element here ;) I usually only learn something new with web development when something goes wrong, lol.
So I put both the codes in. I checked my memory limit, doesn't seem to have changed.
Resource Limits memory_limit 96M
EDIT: Seems to have caused a 500 internal server error. Had to remove the code :/
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You only need 1 code. If you use both, you have the chance on a 500 internal server error.
In that case only use the second code only, just to be sure.
If that also gives a 500 internal server error, the host has configured things another way. In that case you can try to create a php.ini on your public_html with the following content:
memory_limit = 128M
If that also does not work, you can try to change it internally in the SMF files:
http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/What_the_white_screen_of_death_means_when_accessing_admin_or_package_installs#Increase_memory_allocation_in_the_file.28s.29
bottom part of the page.
However, I would suggest to rather ask your host to increase the php memory size for you instead of changing SMF files.
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You only need 1 code. If you use both, you have the chance on a 500 internal server error.
In that case only use the second code only, just to be sure.
If that also gives a 500 internal server error, the host has configured things another way. In that case you can try to create a php.ini on your public_html with the following content:
memory_limit = 128M
If that also does not work, you can try to change it internally in the SMF files:
http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/What_the_white_screen_of_death_means_when_accessing_admin_or_package_installs#Increase_memory_allocation_in_the_file.28s.29
bottom part of the page.
However, I would suggest to rather ask your host to increase the php memory size for you instead of changing SMF files.
Oh yeah. I only used one at a time and tested it. Thanks for you help. I'm reaching out to my host now to see what they can do before I change the SMF files. I'll have an update when I hear back or if this is fixed or not.
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Hi this mod is changing my URL structure in the canonical source i.e. the forum homepage and all links to it is example.com/index.php but with Optimus activated the canonical in the source shows example.com/.
Please help
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I think I've found the problem and fixed it. :) Hopefully this will help somebody if you have the same problem.
To try and work out what is going on, I had a look at the latest modified files.
I saw something interesting in changes in Load.php by running "diff" to see the changes:
diff Load.php~ Load.php
11c11
< * @version 2.0.7
---
> * @version 2.0.9
2746a2747,2753
>
> // Invalidate the opcode cache
> if (function_exists('opcache_invalidate'))
> opcache_invalidate($cachedir . '/data_' . $key . '.php', true);
>
> if (function_exists('apc_delete_file'))
> @apc_delete_file($cachedir . '/data_' . $key . '.php');
It's something to do with caching.
So I went to my caching options under Admin > Server Settings > Caching and I changed it from "Level 2" caching to "No caching" then went back in and changed it from "No caching" to "Level 1" caching.
Now it works :)
Armada
Thank you. You just saved me a few hours of headache.
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Excuse my English. Is there any way to change the OB, instead of the first sentence in the meta description added a larger part of the text? For example, three sentences to 500 characters .. I for subjects sharing on Facebook and that takes data from a meta description on FB page is then as 5 words next to the big picture. Thank you for your help.
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Hello,
Just wanted to make a note of something here in case someone else runs into the same problem I had this morning. My forum is a subdirectory and I wanted to make the breadcrumb (linktree in SMF talk) show the site homepage before the forum. This meant adding some lines to load.php, as per here (http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=361506.msg3808187#msg3808187). But on the forum homepage the breadcrumb title over the site homepage was consistently wrong. This is because in Sources\Subs-Optimus.php, there is a line which overwrites what it should be -
$context['linktree'][0]['name'] = $mbname;
Commenting this out solved the problem.
-Johan
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Excuse my English. Is there any way to change the OB, instead of the first sentence in the meta description added a larger part of the text? For example, three sentences to 500 characters .. I for subjects sharing on Facebook and that takes data from a meta description on FB page is then as 5 words next to the big picture. Thank you for your help.
not without recoding the mod...
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I have already found a way, the solution is on page 17.
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which involved re-coding... :P
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This MOD is absolutely brilliant, one of the few I would like to see built-in SMF.
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Thank you. You just saved me a few hours of headache.
You're most welcome - glad to be of some help. :)
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Excuse my English. Is there any way to change the OB, instead of the first sentence in the meta description added a larger part of the text? For example, three sentences to 500 characters .. I for subjects sharing on Facebook and that takes data from a meta description on FB page is then as 5 words next to the big picture. Thank you for your help.
not without recoding the mod...
In all fairness, that's probably why the person said "Is there any way to change the OB", and they did excuse for their English too :)
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It's a great mod, but the whole META description parsing method is imperfect in my opinion.
For example, if someone started their topic with:
"Hello. (content)", the description would look as follows: "Hello", since it's coded to show only the first sentence (ended with dot or exclamation mark).
I have simplified the description function and it should now correctly deal with this issue. In addition it will now also remove the trimmed (cut) last word from the description and empty spaces from the messages started with new line. I would like to point out that I am still coding noob, but there's nothing advanced, so.
Sources/Subs-Optimus.php
function optimus_meta_teaser()
{
global $context, $txt, $smcFunc;
if ($context['is_poll'])
{
$teaser = $txt['poll'] . ': ' . $context['poll']['question'] . ' (' . $context['page_info']['current_page'] . ')';
}
else
{
$request = $smcFunc['db_query']('', '
SELECT SUBSTRING(body, 1, 200)
FROM {db_prefix}messages
WHERE id_msg = {int:id_msg}
LIMIT 1',
array(
'id_msg' => $context['first_message']
)
);
list ($teaser) = $smcFunc['db_fetch_row']($request);
$smcFunc['db_free_result']($request);
}
$teaser = optimus_meta_chars(str_replace('<br />', ' ', parse_bbc($teaser, false)));
$teaser = trim($teaser);
$teaser = str_replace(" ", "", $teaser);
if ($smcFunc['strlen']($teaser) < 150) return strip_tags($teaser);
$teaser = preg_replace('/\s+?(\S+)?$/', '', substr($teaser, 0, 150));
return strip_tags($teaser);
}
asura88,
That modification to the mod is good. I've just used it myself.
I've added the thing to strip out the "&nbsb" before it returns the description:
Sources/Subs-Optimus.php
function optimus_meta_teaser()
// RIght neat the end of the function
// I've added this next line too
$teaser = str_replace(" ", "", $teaser);
return strip_tags($teaser);
}
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Bugo Installed in smf 2.1 beta 2 without error, but the redirect after installation I get this error:
Unable to load the 'main' template.
You can solve this problem?
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this mod will not work on 2.1 beta... 2.1 is still in beta and will not run most 2.0 mods without edit -- even if they "install without error"
additionally, you should not be running 2.1 beta on any production site.
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I am aware that I must not use SMF 2.1, this is not a problem for me.
And I know that was not done, but many MODs I could have run in SMF 2.1, but give this error.
I thought you could help me.
I'll try alone, as I did with those who are already working,
Thanks for the answer.
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How can I submit my sitemap to Google Webmaster if it is HTML? Should it not be an XML file?
www.example.com/sitemap.xml
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I don't believe that this mod creates an XML sitemap. You would use a different mod for that
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I don't believe that this mod creates an XML sitemap. You would use a different mod for that
It does create an XML sitemap (yoursite.com/sitemap.xml)
check options as admin
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So I recently discovered that I'm not indexed in google properly, and neither are any of my other forums using this mod. This is very disappointing.
I went into google webmasters and out of almost 200 submitted sitemap links only 50 were indexed.
I tried resubmitting the sitemap and this time 93 out of 20 links were accepted.
It (google) is not rechecking the sitemap and the sitemap is not adding topics specifically. How often is "periodically" and do I need to resubmit the sitemap each time? Can you please take a look and help?
www.colormeforum.com/sitemap.xml
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Is it a good idea to have the forum name in the title? When I google I am getting mixed results.
http://sixrevisions.com/content-strategy/5-common-seo-mistakes-with-web-page-titles/
4. Using the Company/Site Name in All Web Pages
As previously said, Google displays up to 70 characters of a given page title in their SERPs. It does see longer ones, though, and despite what many SEO professionals preach, it isn’t a huge problem to have page titles that are greater than 70 characters in a page title.
Nevertheless, you need to think of what should and shouldn’t appear in the title. Many website owners tend to include their business name in the title, some of which can be very lengthy. What is even worse is that they want their name to appear first in every single web page.
Including your company name (unless it’s a search term that will likely be used), is unnecessary, and is consistent with some of the mistakes I’ve discussed earlier.
For example, study this title:
<title>ACME Exporting/Importing Company, LLC: Export Surfboards to Hawaii<title>
With the page title including the company’s name, it is using 37 more characters (with spaces)!
Search engine ranking might be better if it was simply:
<title>Export Surfboards to Hawaii</title>
It would make sense displaying your company name in the homepage, contact page, and about page but avoid them in content pages.
Additionally would you be willing to include open graph things so we can format the titles for Facebook, add the body as the description, maybe even choose a global Facebook image as well as using post images and avatars when sharing?
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First... I disagree with that person's interpretation of seo.
Second, however... This mod author has not updated the mod ins a while so, it's unlikely to have any features added...
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There's a bunch of other posts for and against it. I can understand how it can be detrimental in come cases.
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Hey!
Not sure what's going on but on one of my forums the title is showing twice. It's showing as forum name - optimus brave title (which includes the forum name at the end). It's doing this when I look at it, when I share it on Facebook, and probably in search results too. I want that first forum name to bugger off.
I've compared the meta tags to the default theme (clean) and they're the same except I've added open graph things for facebook image and description. I'm having this across all themes. Any suggestions? or ideas on what to look for? :)
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Hey!
Not sure what's going on but on one of my forums the title is showing twice. It's showing as forum name - optimus brave title (which includes the forum name at the end). It's doing this when I look at it, when I share it on Facebook, and probably in search results too. I want that first forum name to bugger off.
I've compared the meta tags to the default theme (clean) and they're the same except I've added open graph things for facebook image and description. I'm having this across all themes. Any suggestions? or ideas on what to look for? :)
Anyone? :)
Happening on all themes.
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Uninstalling and reinstalling isn't working. How do I completely wipe Optimus Brave's existence so I can try a fresh install like it's new? I don't know what else I can do.
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I found the DB stuff, still no dice. Can ANYONE help please?
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Are there any plans to develop a "Social Optimus Brave"? :laugh:
Looking at WPSSO makes me wonder if some ideas there could be ported to a SMF mod in order to improve the way social networks pick up data from SMF (a glimpse: https://wpsso.com/ and https://surniaulula.com/2014/10/25/social-seo-wordpress-seo-vs-wpsso/
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THERE IS A BUG
On a forum with Tinyportal installed that does not use the portal aspect, say they only use sidebars, etc, "integrate with Tinyportal" breaks the canonical URL. This is actually pretty major! ALL canonicals will be set to index.php?action=forum, topics, boards, the whole lot. Perhaps you want to check the settings of Tinyportal before assuming? Or perhaps you want to make a note for the end user to only integrate if using the portal function.
I checked it with simple portal and it doesn't happen. I don't have any other portals to test with so that bit is up to you :D.
Also it would be really good to put a check in for RIAST or to state they are not compatible because it duplicates the title and mucks it all up. It should be obvious but it's not if you installed it 20 years ago lol.
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Open Graph default image doesn't work, is there anyone even supporting this anymore? I like this mod a lot and can't get anything with open graph enabled, running SMF 2.0.12 and aeva media... if there are embedded images it sometimes will work but usually not. Also a missing language entry for the sitemap title ...
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Hi All,
I just installed this mod on my site (2.0.12) and I keep getting this error. Is anyone familiar with it and can help make it go away? It generates a ton of errors at a time... (and I just noted the language error above me, is it the same thing?)
http://ragdollsunited.com/smf/index.php?action=admin;area=logs;sa=errorlog;desc
8: Undefined index: optimus_sitemap_title
File: /home/public/smf/Sources/Admin-Optimus.php
Line: 42
Thanks! :)
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Open Themes/default/languages/Optimus/Optimus.xxx.php
XXX = france, english or german
find
$txt['optimus_sitemap_section'] = 'Optimus Sitemap';
add before
$txt['optimus_sitemap_title'] = 'Sitemap';
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Woo hoo! Thank you, winstar! :)
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Hello.
The mod works great, except for the analytics part.
Error:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /f/ on this server.
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
I am using the following code:
<script>
(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
})(window,document,'script','https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');
ga('create', '****54392-1', 'auto');
ga('send', 'pageview');
</script>
Theme: zone99
extra info: Without the <script> tags the code is displayed at the top of my page in normal text.
tried:
1. backlashing (adding \ before the ')
2. adding echo stuff
3. trying different combos, ie. removing <script> tags, only pasting my tracking ID, etc.
From this post you can see I have little knowledge about scripting, so any help is appreciated.
PS: I know there is a mod specifically for google analytics, but I would prefer to get this mod working.
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I contacted my host and my problem has been solved.
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I don't have simpleportal installed, and mistakenly chose Portal integration >>Simpleportal. I got 500 server error when I clicked save.
As a result whenever a user click post to start a new thread, it will display 500 server, when you view board index you will see that the new thread is posted.
Please how can I fix this?
Note that posting reply doesn't have any problem as it works fine.
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I don't have simpleportal installed, and mistakenly chose Portal integration >>Simpleportal. I got 500 server error when I clicked save.
As a result whenever a user click post to start a new thread, it will display 500 server, when you view board index you will see that the new thread is posted.
Please how can I fix this?
Note that posting reply doesn't have any problem as it works fine.
You're not able to change the settings? Are you able to install simpleportal?
If not, then you'll have to dig into your database.
How do you change the settings of a mod if you aren't able to access the settings via natural methods?
> phpmyadmin
> open up relevant database
> search mod name (for this example: Cumulus Congestus)
> Words or values to search for (wildcard: "%"): Cumulus Congestus
> Find: At least one of the words
> ***_Settings
>browse
>edit whichever field you need to edit
Just make sure you've got a backup :)
There might be another solution, and I am an amateur, so yer.. :p
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Hi,
After starting to use PHP 7.1 I had to make this change to get a lot of warnings related to "optimus_buffer()" from being generated:
function optimus_buffer(&$buffer) -> function optimus_buffer($buffer)
I.e. I removed the ampersand.
Edit:
Another error that is popping up a lot in the logs is:
8: Undefined index: optimus_sitemap_title
File: /home/**myforum**/public_html/smf/Sources/Admin-Optimus.php
Line: 42
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I don't have simpleportal installed, and mistakenly chose Portal integration >>Simpleportal. I got 500 server error when I clicked save.
As a result whenever a user click post to start a new thread, it will display 500 server, when you view board index you will see that the new thread is posted.
Please how can I fix this?
Note that posting reply doesn't have any problem as it works fine.
You're not able to change the settings? Are you able to install simpleportal?
If not, then you'll have to dig into your database.
How do you change the settings of a mod if you aren't able to access the settings via natural methods?
> phpmyadmin
> open up relevant database
> search mod name (for this example: Cumulus Congestus)
> Words or values to search for (wildcard: "%"): Cumulus Congestus
> Find: At least one of the words
> ***_Settings
>browse
>edit whichever field you need to edit
Just make sure you've got a backup :)
There might be another solution, and I am an amateur, so yer.. :p
Thank you for your help, this I believe can solve setting saving issue. How about when a user clicks "post" to start a new thread and it displays 500 server errors at thesame time get posted? currently I uninstalled the mod so that users can post without seeing errors. Please how can I solve this aspect?
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Is there a way to remove all the mod instances in the database, as if it hasn't installed before?
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Doe this mod work when using SSL?
Once installed and activated, none of the features seem to be working.
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be more specific please?
Because I have all of my sites on SSL and optimus brave is working just fine
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See attachments. The mod just doesn't seem to be working at all, also sitemap was never generated.
No error when checking apache log.
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It looks like you have done some bad things...
1- removing index.php from the URL is useless when it comes to seo and may cause issues
2- turn off the set URLs in smf admin, they are useless these days.
3- what do you think this mod does? It does not change the URL at all...
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Ahhh, I thought it was similar to pretty urls. Thanks mate, must be working as intended.
ll i get now is
8: Undefined index: optimus_sitemap_title
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No, this changes the meta description, etc tags... not the URL ... because pretty URLs are also, basically, useless for seo
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No, this changes the meta description, etc tags... not the URL ... because pretty URLs are also, basically, useless for seo
Cheers mate, learn something enw every day.
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I keep meaning to try this. Looks awesome!
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Hi everyone,
When i send a new topic, or change a sitemap option in Optimus i have this error:
Table 'icka_smf.smf_bbs_items' doesn't exist
File: /var/sentora/hostdata/icka/public_html/icka_eu/Sources/Subs-Optimus.php
Ligne: 852
My SMF is a 2.0.14 and i Re run the upgrade.php to re update the database...but the problem is still there...
And i have uninstall and reinstall the mod, with no luck..
Edit: After searching i think i have to change the Subs-Optimus.php file to search in smf_topics, but i'm not sure....
Edit2: Not working, it search for id wich could possibly be id_topics, date, and last_edit which are not present in smf_topics
// Simple Classifieds
if (!empty($modSettings['optimus_sitemap_classifieds'])) {
$request = $smcFunc['db_query']('', '
SELECT id, date, last_edit
FROM {db_prefix}bbs.items
WHERE status = {int:approved}
ORDER BY date',
array(
'approved' => 1
)
);
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The problem seems to come from the Simple Classifed Sitemap option...but I cannot deactivate this option...each time it return selected...
The options seems to not be stored in the database...so i don't know where i can change it..
Edit: Found the parameters in the DB smf_settings at Optimus_sitemap_classifieds and change it to 0, solved my problems..
Do not activate the SMF Classifieds option if you don't have this mod...it was a miss click from me...and this option cannot be change without manually editing the database...
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I don't have simpleportal installed, and mistakenly chose Portal integration >>Simpleportal. I got 500 server error when I clicked save.
As a result whenever a user click post to start a new thread, it will display 500 server, when you view board index you will see that the new thread is posted.
Please how can I fix this?
Note that posting reply doesn't have any problem as it works fine.
We had Optimus Brave 1.8.7 installed, updating to 1.9.x caused 500 errors when starting a new topic. Have temporarily reverted to 1.8.7 since it's not causing us any headaches. I guess something in the old config barfs with the new versions...
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Ahhh, I thought it was similar to pretty urls. Thanks mate, must be working as intended.
ll i get now is
8: Undefined index: optimus_sitemap_title
To clear this warning from the error log I changed two entries of this string in Sources/Admin-Optimus.php:
$txt['optimus_sitemap_title']
To:
isset($txt['optimus_sitemap_title'])?$txt['optimus_sitemap_title']:""
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or, a better solution would be to actually define $txt['optimus_sitemap_title'] in modifications.YOURLANGUAGE.php
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Sometimes, I get this error with SMF 2.1 beta 3. How to fix it?
8: Undefined variable: mobile_type
file: .../Sources/Subs-Optimus.php
Line: 466
==>466: 'wap' => $scripturl . '/?' . $mobile_type,
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Well, for one, this mod is not designed for smf 2.1
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Well, for one, this mod is not designed for smf 2.1
Ok, NP.
I thought it's compatible as it says in Modification section of the site.
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hmmm.... it does say that, doesn't it? Bugo must have made a update or mistakenly clicked 2.1 when he meant 2.0.14
but it would require some changes since I believe we may have removed WAP from the 2.1 codebase
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Sometimes, I get this error with SMF 2.1 beta 3. How to fix it?
8: Undefined variable: mobile_type
file: .../Sources/Subs-Optimus.php
Line: 466
==>466: 'wap' => $scripturl . '/?' . $mobile_type,
Thanks, I fixed it on GitHub (develop branch (https://github.com/dragomano/Optimus/tree/develop))
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Thank you.
I think you missed ?> at the end of both files.
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It's not required :)
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I can not activate this option. Please help.
(https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=422210.0;attach=254597;image)
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This option is visible if there is sitemap.xml on the forum's root.
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It works. Thanks for the reply!
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Is this really the correct robots.txt?
Because in the Google Console I see the message that Google has no access to my site because of the second Disallow: /
User-agent: MediaPartners-Google
Allow: /
User-agent: *
Allow: /*.xml
Allow: /*sitemap
Allow: /*.css
Allow: /*.js
Allow: /*.png
Allow: /*.jpg
Allow: /*.gif
Disallow: /*action
Disallow: /*board=*wap
Disallow: /*board=*imode
Disallow: /*topic=*wap
Disallow: /*topic=*imode
Disallow: /*topic=*.msg
Disallow: /*topic=*.new
Disallow: /*;
Disallow: /*PHPSESSID
Allow: /*board
Allow: /*topic
Disallow: /
Sitemap: https://mydomain.tld/sitemap.xml
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Hi! I hate to be a pest, but this error started up again today. It was resolved previously by winstar's post (change "Optimus Sitemap' to 'Sitemap' in languages), and nothing changed about the forum (that I know of/within my control) so I don't really understand what might've suddenly happened. It is only generated when I am on the site, under my admin username. Also I don't have the sitemap option enabled, and don't know where it can be found.
BTW my site has been 2.0.14 for months (since shortly after it was available).
If anyone could point me in a direction to fixing this, I'd be very grateful.
Hi All,
I just installed this mod on my site (2.0.12) and I keep getting this error. Is anyone familiar with it and can help make it go away? It generates a ton of errors at a time... (and I just noted the language error above me, is it the same thing?)
http://ragdollsunited.com/smf/index.php?action=admin;area=logs;sa=errorlog;desc
8: Undefined index: optimus_sitemap_title
File: /home/public/smf/Sources/Admin-Optimus.php
Line: 42
Thanks! :)
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Hi! I hate to be a pest, but this error started up again today. It was resolved previously by winstar's post (change "Optimus Sitemap' to 'Sitemap' in languages), and nothing changed about the forum (that I know of/within my control) so I don't really understand what might've suddenly happened. It is only generated when I am on the site, under my admin username. Also I don't have the sitemap option enabled, and don't know where it can be found.
BTW my site has been 2.0.14 for months (since shortly after it was available).
If anyone could point me in a direction to fixing this, I'd be very grateful.
Hi All,
I just installed this mod on my site (2.0.12) and I keep getting this error. Is anyone familiar with it and can help make it go away? It generates a ton of errors at a time... (and I just noted the language error above me, is it the same thing?)
http://ragdollsunited.com/smf/index.php?action=admin;area=logs;sa=errorlog;desc
8: Undefined index: optimus_sitemap_title
File: /home/public/smf/Sources/Admin-Optimus.php
Line: 42
Thanks! :)
If you start at the beginning of this thread and read each post carefully you may find that somewhere along the line the file sitemap.xml got deleted, OR your language files did not install correctly, I've had experience with the latter in this module when installing on 2.1, which as Kindred stated this module needs to be updated for 2.1... its a fair module for what it does, but requires custom edits to install on 2.1, but you are on 2.0.14 yes? same issue maybe, check that the language files got installed correctly... because back when I was messing with this one there was a whole missing menu item because of the language files, simple fix though...
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If you start at the beginning of this thread and read each post carefully you may find that somewhere along the line the file sitemap.xml got deleted, OR your language files did not install correctly, I've had experience with the latter in this module when installing on 2.1, which as Kindred stated this module needs to be updated for 2.1... its a fair module for what it does, but requires custom edits to install on 2.1, but you are on 2.0.14 yes? same issue maybe, check that the language files got installed correctly... because back when I was messing with this one there was a whole missing menu item because of the language files, simple fix though...
Thanks for the hint, it certainly sounds similar to my problem, BUT...
I went through 21 pages of discussion and didn't find anything addressing how to fix it. A lot of work and no result :( (and yes, I did uninstall and reinstall, which was the only thing I saw.)
If anyone can point me to something more concrete, I would really appreciate it.
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If you start at the beginning of this thread and read each post carefully you may find that somewhere along the line the file sitemap.xml got deleted, OR your language files did not install correctly, I've had experience with the latter in this module when installing on 2.1, which as Kindred stated this module needs to be updated for 2.1... its a fair module for what it does, but requires custom edits to install on 2.1, but you are on 2.0.14 yes? same issue maybe, check that the language files got installed correctly... because back when I was messing with this one there was a whole missing menu item because of the language files, simple fix though...
Thanks for the hint, it certainly sounds similar to my problem, BUT...
I went through 21 pages of discussion and didn't find anything addressing how to fix it. A lot of work and no result :( (and yes, I did uninstall and reinstall, which was the only thing I saw.)
If anyone can point me to something more concrete, I would really appreciate it.
Oops, what I meant to say is that you should start at the top of this page of the thread, not meaning to suggestion the entire thread...
At any rate, so what you are saying is that you have physically checked and that sitemap.xml file does indeed exist in the root directory of the forum?
The error msg that you cited indicates to me initially that a manual edit of your language files will fix this, IF that file does indeed exist where it is suppose to be... especially if the module was working okay beforehand...
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Oops, what I meant to say is that you should start at the top of this page of the thread, not meaning to suggestion the entire thread...
At any rate, so what you are saying is that you have physically checked and that sitemap.xml file does indeed exist in the root directory of the forum?
The error msg that you cited indicates to me initially that a manual edit of your language files will fix this, IF that file does indeed exist where it is suppose to be... especially if the module was working okay beforehand...
I'm still confused.
I made a txt document and renamed it to sitemap.xml and uploaded it to smf. Didn't fix it.
I'm not sure what I should do. If there's a manual edit of my language files needed, how do I find what/where to edit?
On the other hand, if something was supposed to happen that didn't, shouldn't there be a reason *why* something didn't happen as predicted? I checked the zip file for the mod, and there is no sitemap.xml in there. What creates this file? When? And if it was supposed to happen on install, why didn't that happen? 'Cause obviously something is broken. Re-install did not fix it.
BTW, that screenshot that Boyanova6 posted above? I don't have anything looking like that in the mod. There is nothing referencing sitemaps *at all* in any of the mod settings. When I look through the language file, I see a whole section on creating a sitemap.xml. Should I just delete all that? Shouldn't that appear somewhere in the mod?
Still confused. :(
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Yes, if you are unfamiliar with doing a manual edit, it can be confusing... been working with computers for longer than some have been alive, and they always do EXACTLY as they are told to do by the programmer, they do not make mistakes, ever... its the programmer's responsibility to account for every scenario & details of what the task at hand is doing.
Sometimes, if the forum admin has installed/re-installed several different modules, some modules change the language files and source code of the core software in a variety of ways, or are "suppose" to, but because some other module has already made changes to those files, and un-install re-install does not always fix some little quirk of the software and you must manually make the edits yourself to put things back in order...
SMF© makes that process relatively easy to spot and tells you where/what edits to make through the pre-install/uninstall test...
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So what you're saying is my only choice is to delete the entire forum and start over?
SMF© makes that process relatively easy to spot and tells you where/what edits to make through the pre-install/uninstall test...
Not really, because there was never a single indication of the mod not installing properly. Not the first time, and not when I uninstalled and reinstalled earlier today.
Unless there is some other pre-install/uninstall test that I am unaware of?
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So what you're saying is my only choice is to delete the entire forum and start over?
In this case, no that is not the case, if you go in and un-install Optimus, then turn around and re-install it, the pretest phase will show where and what files need to be edited... familiarize yourself with this feature of the package manager, it will save you hours of fret, confusion, and headaches if you are trying to add functionality features new or old...
The wiki section of the online manual here has vast resources for a variety of scenarios that typically happen with the SMF platform, one of the moderators can point you to the section of the manual that covers manual edits of source code...
In your case, you should be able to quickly make a minor edit to the language files which are located in the Themes/default/languages sub-directory, but first you need to determine which one(s) to edit...
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In this case, no that is not the case, if you go in and un-install Optimus, then turn around and re-install it, the pretest phase will show where and what files need to be edited... familiarize yourself with this feature of the package manager, it will save you hours of fret, confusion, and headaches if you are trying to add functionality features new or old...
I've uninstalled and reinstalled twice today. The pretest phase does not show any issues AT ALL. That's the problem. So what do I do next?
Installations actions for "Optimus"
Installing this package will perform the following actions:
Type Action Description
1. Extract File ./Sources/Admin-Optimus.php Core file
2. Extract File ./Sources/Subs-Optimus.php Core file
3. Extract File ./Themes/default/Optimus.template.php Template file
4. Extract Tree ./Themes/default/languages Language files
5. Extract Tree ./Themes/default/css CSS files
6. Adapt Database install.php
This is followed by a quick "successful install" screen that I don't even have the chance to read it is so quick, followed by the "Base Settings" page with these options:
Base settings
Extra
Verification meta tags
Counters
File robots.txt
Nothing about sitemaps.
STill getting this error:
8: Undefined index: optimus_sitemap_title
File: /home/public/smf/Sources/Admin-Optimus.php
Line: 42
The wiki section of the online manual here has vast resources for a variety of scenarios that typically happen with the SMF platform, one of the moderators can point you to the section of the manual that covers manual edits of source code...
In your case, you should be able to quickly make a minor edit to the language files which are located in the Themes/default/languages sub-directory, but first you need to determine which one(s) to edit...
I should also add that most of the descriptions for the code are in Russian. While I can boast being able to utter a few Russian words/phrases, I can't read whatever the writing says in the Admin-Optimus.php file says. I tried looking at places where "sitemap" is mentioned, but I can't find anything particularly wrong with it, other than that it doesn't work. I'm not sure how the SMF wiki is supposed to help here... :-/ I came to the Mod thread hoping for help with the Mod, is that not what I'm supposed to do?
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Okay, let me ask you this, is your forum utilizing utf-8 protocol? or no?
If it is, try replacing these two files in your Themes/default/languages directory... see attached...
Afterward you should see an additional option on the optimus admin menu regarding sitemap...
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Haha, very clever. "Need to fix this language error Bugo" now appears where I assume Sitemaps is supposed to appear.
And it looks like the error is gone :)
Thank you. It was a rough ride for a bit, but I appreciate your stick-to-it-iveness.
I can probably fix the "Need to fix this language error Bugo" item, but I think I'll leave it, just for kicks :D
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I had version 1.8.x and now installed version 1.9.6 but encountered an error about
https://www.myforums.org/Themes/default/css/sitemap.xsl on line 1 column xxxx. I don't remember the column number.
So I checked and there is no sitemap.xsl present neither created in the .css directory.
This occurs when I visit https://www.myforums.org/forum/sitemap.xml in my browser.
Am i doing something wrong or is this file missing from the zip? At this moment I used the sitemap.xsl from the 1.8.x version and then the error does not occur.
Optimus 1.9.6
SMF 2.0.14
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What is the changelog between 1.9.6 and 1.9.7?
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- Favicon support
- Custom metatags
- Various fixes
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Very good @Bugo for updating the mod and step by step I leave the translation into Spanish Latin ;D
Regards!
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A glitch in the code
Optimus.template.php
<span>
<label for="optimus_favicon_text">Код для вставки favicon</label><br />
<span class="smalltext">', $txt['optimus_favicon_help'], '</span>
</span>
Should be
<span>
<label for="optimus_favicon_text">', $txt['optimus_favicon_text'], '<br />
<span class="smalltext">', $txt['optimus_favicon_help'], '</span>
</span>
And the corrected Dutch translations attached
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Thanks. I have added your translations into package.
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Nice.
I have another question / issue:
I activated the setting for 'Open Graph support' linking to an image...
Now every time a topic is read with an attachment in the first message this error is written:
https://www.fjr-club.nl/index.php?topic=22081.msg311175;topicseen
2: getimagesize(https://www.fjr-club.nl/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=22081;attach=11722;image): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
File: /home/deb77453/domains/fjr-club.nl/public_html/Sources/Subs-Optimus.php
Line: 467
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Open Subs-Optimus.php, find
function get_optimus_description()
{
global $smcFunc, $context, $txt, $board_info;and add after
if (!allowedTo('view_attachments'))
return;
It should look like that:
function get_optimus_description()
{
global $smcFunc, $context, $txt, $board_info;
if (empty($context['first_message']))
return;
P. S. Or you can just allow guests to view attachments ;)
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That does NOT solve the issue.
I should have mentioned: error occurs for members that ARE allowed to see attachments...
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- Favicon support
- Custom metatags
- Various fixes
This is awesome. Thanks! :)
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That does NOT solve the issue.
I should have mentioned: error occurs for members that ARE allowed to see attachments...
Did you clean cache?
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That does NOT solve the issue.
I should have mentioned: error occurs for members that ARE allowed to see attachments...
Did you clean cache?
yes I did. And note my comment: error is showing for registered users, they have access to the attachments anyway...
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Another update? What's that all about? :o Every second day something new... I am just wondering what is the chagelog? :D
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Another update? What's that all about? :o Every second day something new... I am just wondering what is the chagelog? :D
So was I. I believe a mod author should announce the changelogs every time an update is done.
I checked the package and I found that Bugo has made a few more changes related to my issue with the OG_image support...
I tested it again on my forum, and I now get different error messages...
https://www.fjr-club.nl/index.php?topic=21625.msg311459;topicseen
8: Undefined offset: 0
File: /home/deb77453/domains/fjr-club.nl/public_html/Sources/Subs-Optimus.php
Line: 470
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Hello,
Good job, @Bugo ! :)
Thanks.
I had already modified my forum manually for SEO and social media.
Now that i found this mod, it's cool. He will do the rest! ;)
Translation :
- French UTF-8
- French
I converted "Webmaster Tools" to "Search Console" (the name as changed).
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Forgotten variable $txt['optimus_robots_desc'] :-[
Complete french translation:
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Thanks :)
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Thank you, I'm just getting started with mine. Couple questions.
1. Is there a quick and easy configuration manual for standard basic seo config? I'm not looking to get my site noticed on the first page or anything. I would like it indexed properly though.
2. I have sitemap.xml and robots.tx file at my site root already, should I remove them?
Thanks!
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I advice you to enable mod's options one by one and view what effect they produce. Read a hint for every option, if it there is.
When you enable "Sitemap XML" option, Optimus replaces the current sitemap.xml file. The robots.txt file you can change manually, on "robots.txt" page.
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Ok, that's what I did. I wasn't sure if there was a "suggested default config" for starters. Thanks
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How do you change the meta data open graph image link? I can't it's hard coded. I uploaded the image I want to use to my app on FB and it's not using that either.
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Couple Questions..... I would've edited my last comment but can't.
- How do you change the meta data open graph image link? I can't it's hard coded. I uploaded the image I want to use to my app on FB and it's not using that either.
- Under base settings/Forum Homepage title. I don't want "- Index" showing in web search results. If I leave it empty there's still a hyphen. Is there anyway to remove the hyphen so just my website title shows up without it in results, (image attached)?
- When I browse to my site in chrome the suffix is index.php?wwwRedirect<--- What is that? It doesn't show that in FF or IE
http://www.youthhockeyinfo.com/index.php?wwwRedirect
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Off topic
On the mod page, you should indicate which languages are supported. It would bring you more people. ;)
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- When I browse to my site in chrome the suffix is index.php?wwwRedirect<--- What is that? It doesn't show that in FF or IE
http://www.youthhockeyinfo.com/index.php?wwwRedirect
https://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/WwwRedirect
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Hi @Bugo
What does the portal support do in your mod? I ask because I don't see EZ Portal listed.
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"Portal support" just means that Optimus can change page titles and/or $context['canonical_url'] on portal frontpages.
I didn't use the last versions of EZ Portal, so I don't know how it works, what is changed, etc.
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I don't know if this is widespread or not, but when I upgraded from 1.9.6 to 1.9.7.2 or 1.9.7.3 I lost all the open graph tags, regardless of the settings. Reverting back to 1.9.6 returned them to the forum. I didn't check anything else to see what wasn't working with the 1.9.7.x version as when I noticed all my Twitter cards were broken until I reverted to the old version.
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Anybody have any suggestions on this or doesn't anyone use this mod?
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Sorry, i use another system, of my making, for social images.
I installed Optimus after i started a big SEO job on my site.
Optimus is a complement.
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Thanks for the reply. Apparently there's some sort of bug or features have been removed, so I'll use the older version for now.