Simple Machines Community Forum

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LITE (THIS) Version Features:
o Sitemap
o XML Sitemap
o Number of Page on Page Title.
o Admin Panel to Enable and Customize Above Options.

PRO Version Features (AVAILABLE AT SMFPACKS.COM):
Urls:

   
• Master Switch to Disable Pretty Urls in All Forum
• Optionally Permanent Redirect (301) Old Urls to the New Urls Format.
• Easily Customize URLs Format of Boards, Topics and Profiles. (Ex. Select if boards would be b{board_id} or b{board_name}_{board_id}) from Admin Panel.
• Hierarchic URL Structure: URLs would follow a pattern, so you can easily go to the board of a topic just removing the topic part of the URL. Just like folders.
• Friendly Urls for Boards
• Friendly Urls for Topics
• Friendly Urls for Profiles
• Friendly Urls for Actions
• Friendly Urls for Attachments
• Limit URLs Lenght
• Parse acronyms on Urls
• Stopwords on URLs
• Custom Stopwords

Google Analytics Integration:

   
• Google Analytics Graph on Admin Panel.
• Secure Google Analytics Integration in Admin.
• Easily integrate Google Analytics in your forum.
• Optionally track external links with Analytics.

Sitemaps:

   
• Enable Sitemap.
• Enable Sitemap XML.
• Set Topics Showned per Page.
• Select if Sitemap link will be showned in Menu, Footer or Both.
• Ping Sitemap.

Linksbacks & Pings:

   
• Linkback: Simple URL showned in first post to avoid illegal copy of content via RSS Feeds.
• Pingbacks: Pingbacks can be enabled to notify search engines about new content.
• Set Sitemap Ping Frequency.
• Enable Sitemap Pings for Google, Bing and Ask.

Topics:

   
• Show Signature only once per page for Guests.
• Related Topics. (Using Fulltext on MySQL).
• Set the number of topics showned in related topics.
• Replace Previous and next Link in Threads with Topics Title.
• Easily add Page Number on Message Index title.
• Easily add Page Number on Topic title.
• Customize Topic Title with some Pre-defined vars.

Posted Urls:

   
• Redirect all external posted links to Protect Privacy and outgoing links
• Optionally add page titles to external links to create keyword-rich links.
• Blacklist for above option, in case that some websites may have issues with it.
• NoFollow tag added to all posted URLs
• Whitelist for above option, to excluse those websites from that tag.
• Blacklist, as above, but those websites will always have that tag.

Meta Tags:

   
• Dynamic Meta Keywords and Description in Topics, Message Index and Forum Index.
• Set the maximun lenght of meta tags
• Set a default meta description, when others aren't available.
• Set a default meta keywords, when others aren't available.
• Customize, with Pre-defined commands, Profiles Meta Description
• Easily set copyright, audience, author, language and publisher tags
• Optionally force Search Engines Spiders to ignore description from Yahoo's Directory and ODP Directory

Error Pages:

   
• Optionally Prevent indexation of error pages
• Set what to show in a 404 Error: Custom or a Pre-Created Page.
• Server Errors(404, 403...) will be showned in Forum Layout

Acronym Parser:

   
• Customized Acronyms, really useful to increase relevancy of content, replacing words like SMF with Simple Machines Forums.
• Create unlimitied acronyms.
• Optionally set if only whole words will be parsed.
• Optionally ignore case when parsing acronyms.
• URLs can be parsed too.

Social Bookmarks:

   
• Allow Social Bookmarks per Post.
• Allow Social Bookmarks per Topic.
• Optionally integrate Facebook Like on Topics.
• Enable/Disable each site (Twitter, Facebook, Digg.it, FUrl and others).

Misc:

   
• Set an specific theme exclusive for Guests and Robots in that way SEO themes will be available to Search Engines.
• Edit .htaccess file directly from Admin Panel.
• Implementation of nofollow tag, noindex meta tag, and 404/403 headers in specific sites where they must be.
• SEO Warning: Warnings about bad functionalities, broken links, and settings that aren't activated that could increase SEO on your website.

Manual Edit:

Simple database installer just upload the db_install.php file and browse it using your web browser:

http://www.yourforum.com/smf/db_install.php

Languages:
- English/English UTF8

Compatibility:
- 2.0

Changelog:
+ = New Features | ! = Bug Fixing | @ = Change | - = Feature Removed | * = Important Info

Version 1.0 - 23/June/2011
* Modification Released

Very nice!

Congratulations!  :)

it is a great post . you describe the things very well. it is a great post.

^^^ lol @ robot :)

Nibogo, the screenshots of the PRO version doesn't work...
I'm interested in this mod, especially this part: "Hierarchic URL Structure: URLs would follow a pattern, so you can easily go to the board of a topic just removing the topic part of the URL. Just like folders."

Do you have a demo somewhere where I can see how it (all the features) works ?

www.smfpacks.com

Nibogo, thats really cool, your pro version is pretty cool and you have really done right job. I have been into forum SEO from long and your mod does almost everything I can think of. :)

Quote from: Ricky. on November 07, 2011, 10:23:14 AM
Nibogo, thats really cool, your pro version is pretty cool and you have really done right job. I have been into forum SEO from long and your mod does almost everything I can think of. :)

I'm glad you like it :)

Hey Nibogo,

I'd like to use this mod for my website. Can u give us an example of a website who uses your mod?

Regards

@Weatherservice: His own site (http://www.smfpacks.com) uses it :)

I installed the light version and this error keeps appearing into my error log:

Unknown column 'b.member_groups' in 'where clause'
/home/xxxx/public_html/forum/Sources/Subs-Seo.php
Row: 229

Any thoughts?

Any plans to make this available for 1.1.xx?

Quote from: EddieC on February 27, 2012, 07:17:29 AM
Any plans to make this available for 1.1.xx?

Definetly not in the Lite Version, maybe in the PRO:

http://www.smfpacks.com/page/sa=seo

what url for sitemap...........

Hello, How do you upgrade ticket to urgent to high in your support area?
It is low by default and I can't find option to upgrade to high.

After installation of SEO Pro Mod, any posting/modifying or external link posting giving me 404 page.
If I, or member want to post or modify anything after submitting  it will go to 404 page. Post will eventually show in forum but first it will be redirected to 404.

Also when I insert external link in the post, it will add my main domain in front of link, that will again send me to 404 page. Like this:

I want to link to http://someothersite.com, but inserting hiper link, I will get this:

http://mysite.com/smf/seored/u=http%3A%2F%2Fsomeothersite.com%2%2F%3Fcat%3D5

In the preview of post I just see [ url ]http://someothersite.com[ /url ]

I am running 2.0.2 version with  Default Theme - Curve

I saw it and reply over there, here you won't get any support for my mods

I will try this Engine , anyone have use this before , can you review this MOD

I tried installing mod on my existing web site. Did not work. I installed mod on brand new fresh installation of SMF. Did not work. I installed this mod on SMF forum installed in root directory as well as in sub directory, did not work. I installed your mod on SMF forum freshly installed using Fantastico on Hostgator. Did not work. I installed your mod on manually installed forum downloaded from SMF download section. Did not work. I installed your mod on freshly installed SMF using Softocolous  on Webhostpad servers. Did not work. I installed your mod on manually instaled SMF hosted on Webhosting pad server. Did not work.

So I tried using your mod on two different hosting companies, using manually and automatically installed SMF forums. I tried on my existing website as well as on freshly installed forums, without any additional mods installed. DID NOT WORK.

Ah yeah....also I repeated all above mentioned scenarios with two of your latest versions of your mod. Did not work.

I offered you access to my cpanel and ftp. You did not reply to that. I asked you what changes on server my host should do to make it work. You did not reply to that . Your technical support is non-exhisting, slowest and worst I ever experienced. You are not giving me any useful information that possibly can solve issue. Your last reply was exactly like this: "if that feature is not working I don't know why you need it so badly, all the other features are going to work and you can even use another pretty urls mod thatworks with your server"

Because I paid for full set of promised features, not for some of them.

Not likely, but I am open to possibility that could be issue with two very popular and known hosting companies. However any attempt to get any useful information from tech support of this mod failed.

Mod features sounds good in theory, that is why I purchase it in first place, but if you have problem with it, do not count on any tech support. IT DOES NOT EXIST. After opening ticket, it will take a days for you to get rubbish non helping replay from owner.  Refund of the money is also rejected.
If anyone is interested screen capture of complete conversation with tech support is available. Good only for laugh !
I regret that I did not search forums on seller before I paid for this mode. If you do, you could find other buyers with similar issues with this guy.

I gave you an htaccess that worked for everybody but you, it didn't worked, I toll you what you could ask to Hostgator, but your reply was that you tried in two hosting companies. That feature is working normally in all tests I did, and I'm in my last week of this semester so I've final exams almost every day, that's why I'm not replying as fast as you would like to.

Quote from: Nibogo on May 15, 2012, 02:27:40 PM
I gave you an htaccess that worked for everybody but you, it didn't worked, I toll you what you could ask to Hostgator, but your reply was that you tried in two hosting companies. That feature is working normally in all tests I did, and I'm in my last week of this semester so I've final exams almost every day, that's why I'm not replying as fast as you would like to.

Not only that you are lousy businessman, but you lie as well. Ticket is still open on your admin area. There is no any reply from you where you are giving me any answer what possibly Hostgator should do to make it work. If you are referring to this replay"To verify, script should be working normally, if pretty urls are, redirection from php files should do it too. I've no reports about it from other customers". You obviously did not even read what problem was. And what are you talking about in this replay anyway? What files you are referring to?

If you had time issue because of personal things, you could say something about it, not let buyers wait 3 or 4 days for replay. Speed of your reply doesn't really mean anything anyway, since they are worthless. 
It is very interesting how you found time right away to reply very quickly to critic in public forum !

I reply everywhere when I find time for it, if you can't wait until I've time to check as it looks like your server admin wasn't able to fix it, sorry, but I won't leave my duties in college for it. It's not critical as disabling that features leaves everything else (including all the other features of my mod) working

Hi,

Can some one help me out i have installed SMFPacks_SEO_Pro_Mod just few times ago and from that time my gallery is now showing up the images. There seems to be url rewrite issue , when i unchecked the Enable Pretty URLs option then all work fine .
My forum is located here

Thanks,

I've been looking over the Pro mod (http://www.smfpacks.com/seomod) offering.  Has anyone installed this and seen an increase in traffic?  Worth the cost and time to install?

Any feedback would be great.  Thanks. :)

Hello, I see the thread was started several months ago...is this mod still good for SEO?

Thanks

Quote from: newbie2012 on June 07, 2012, 09:26:00 AM
Hello, I see the thread was started several months ago...is this mod still good for SEO?

Thanks

There has been no upgrades in this version, but in this one: http://www.smfpacks.com/page/sa=seo we've been doing upgrades

Hello!

I installed the light version and this error keeps appearing into my error log:
This errors are caused by an GoogleBot.

Im using smf 2.0.2



http/index.php?action=sitemap;xml;b=88Datenbankfehler: Unknown column 'b.member_groups' in 'where clause'


SELECT m.id_topic, m.poster_time, t.num_replies
FROM smf_messages as m, smf_topics as t
WHERE m.id_board = 88
AND (FIND_IN_SET(-1, b.member_groups) != 0)
AND m.id_msg = t.id_last_msg
ORDER BY m.poster_time DESCDatei: /is/htdocs/wp10987751_P86YNHEPGX/www/sb/Sources/Subs-Seo.php
Zeile: 229

I don't know what do do and I would appreciate a little help.

Greetings Kitti

any reviews to the pro plugin?
I'm not sure if I should buy this or the other

I just see that the author violates the gpl - does not make any good impression, but I can ignore his licence.

Quote from: pss7 on July 02, 2012, 03:42:40 PM
I'm not sure if I should buy this or the other

Which other are you considering?

If you use it with SSI.php you get broken links from your site to forum. It's pain in ass.
Any idea how to fix this?

I'm trying with str_replace to convert regular link to seo... like replacing '(), and other signs with empty space but i don't have list of all signes...

Lite version does not convert links, so you're in the wrong topic

Something is wrong with seo.php. The old URL's doesn't get redirected properly.

Quote from: Nibogo on August 18, 2012, 02:39:38 PM
Lite version does not convert links, so you're in the wrong topic

Nether does the paid Pro version.

Since we bought this mod a few months ago, we've had tons of problems with it.
There's no money back guarantee. Support is not very bad, but the problems are indeed a pain in the ass.

Quote from: James--- on August 30, 2012, 02:57:10 PM
Since we bought this mod a few months ago, we've had tons of problems with it.
There's no money back guarantee. Support is not very bad, but the problems are indeed a pain in the ass.

same here but I have not be able to get any of my issues resolved.

We found a solution at the forum a few minutes ago: http://www.smfpacks.com/b48/frequently-asked-questions/1000/msg5401#msg5401

Just keep sending them tickets. Don't give up. You paid for your mod,
so you have the right to take advantage of it. There are always solutions.
That's their responsibilty. They must deliver what they promise.

LoL, thanks, I just gave up on them and found other solutions.

They wanted to always blame it on my server and I knew 110% that wasn't the case because I was able to find other solutions that did the same thing and it worked perfect.

I just know I won't purchase anything else from them.

Quote from: James--- on August 30, 2012, 04:36:24 PM
We found a solution at the forum a few minutes ago: http://www.smfpacks.com/b48/frequently-asked-questions/1000/msg5401#msg5401

Just keep sending them tickets. Don't give up. You paid for your mod,
so you have the right to take advantage of it. There are always solutions.
That's their responsibilty. They must deliver what they promise.

The issue you had is resolved there, and all the other issues you had were resolved. I think you're being really unfair here.

Quote from: Texan78 on August 30, 2012, 05:07:16 PM
LoL, thanks, I just gave up on them and found other solutions.

They wanted to always blame it on my server and I knew 110% that wasn't the case because I was able to find other solutions that did the same thing and it worked perfect.

I just know I won't purchase anything else from them.

If I ain't wrong I did an update fixing the issue you had with titled links, I also asked information for the other issue, and in 13 days I had no reply, so I closed the ticket with the following message:

"Marking as resolved, if you've further issues please re-open it."

Quote from: Nibogo on September 02, 2012, 10:39:35 AM
If I ain't wrong I did an update fixing the issue you had with titled links

Which I replied it still didn't work and it went unreplied for weeks.

Quote from: Nibogo on September 02, 2012, 10:39:35 AMI also asked information for the other issue, and in 13 days I had no reply, so I closed the ticket with the following message:

"Marking as resolved, if you've further issues please re-open it."

You had no response in 13 days because because it took you a month to respond in which I had given up after a month of no response and looked for other solutions Since I have funding for this project and wasn't going to wait for a fly by night operation in which I paid for.

After I did the release I only had one reply from you which was replied the day after, and it took me 15 days (not a month) to check the code. From May 28 to June 13 as you can't expect to do a release for such a complex mod, specially knowing that the release I did was including a lot more than just this issue.

In any case I can't use this website to discuss about pro versions, I had a delay with this, but I think it's working pretty well now. Let me know if you want to discuss it even further.

QuoteThe issue you had is resolved there, and all the other issues you had were resolved. I think you're being really unfair here.

I don't think i'm unfair. We had many problems with the SEO mod. Look, I don't want to complain here, I understand that you worked very hard to create this mod for the community. I really, really appreciate that, because SMF itself isn't as search engine friendly as it could be.

I have a major problem now. Host put our forum down, because of the CPU usage. I'm going to send you a new ticket now.

Quote from: Nibogo on September 03, 2012, 07:22:52 PM
After I did the release I only had one reply from you which was replied the day after, and it took me 15 days (not a month) to check the code. From May 28 to June 13 as you can't expect to do a release for such a complex mod, specially knowing that the release I did was including a lot more than just this issue.

In any case I can't use this website to discuss about pro versions, I had a delay with this, but I think it's working pretty well now. Let me know if you want to discuss it even further.

You were released a update for the mod in whole as a benefit for yourself, not a direct resolution to my issue that is still not resolved.

If you want to argue that it took you 15 days and not a month to respond. I could have at least had some kind of communication within that 15 days to at least state you were looking into it. You want to take 15 days with no communication but yet you want to mark my issue resolve after 13 days of no response? You can take two weeks but others who paid cannot? That is bad business to just leave a customer hanging like that who PAID for a mod plus poor customer service.

Pretty Actions still do not work correctly - (Gave up on it since it was a headache)

Page Titles still do not work - (Was blamed on my server when wasn't the case. Found a mod that WORKED to take it's place)

Now the Google Analytics Data doesn't work because it appears the URL to Google has changed and is throwing back Error: Not a valid response (404) url: https://www.google.com/analytics/feeds/accounts/default and nothing has changed and it was working fine previously.

That is just a couple of examples I have many more.

For anyone else, don't waste your time or money with this mod. It has not helped my forum one bit. It misses several key fundamental SEO techniques. 

Quote from: Texan78 on September 04, 2012, 10:54:29 AM
You were released a update for the mod in whole as a benefit for yourself, not a direct resolution to my issue that is still not resolved.

What? How could I benefit from an update?

Quote from: Texan78 on September 04, 2012, 10:54:29 AM
If you want to argue that it took you 15 days and not a month to respond. I could have at least had some kind of communication within that 15 days to at least state you were looking into it. You want to take 15 days with no communication but yet you want to mark my issue resolve after 13 days of no response? You can take two weeks but others who paid cannot? That is bad business to just leave a customer hanging like that who PAID for a mod plus poor customer service.

I never toll you not to reply after I closed the ticket, as I said you were able to re open it.

Quote from: Texan78 on September 04, 2012, 10:54:29 AM
Pretty Actions still do not work correctly - (Gave up on it since it was a headache)

Quite weird you are the only one complaining about it

Quote from: Texan78 on September 04, 2012, 10:54:29 AM
Page Titles still do not work - (Was blamed on my server when wasn't the case. Found a mod that WORKED to take it's place)

They are working perfectly fine in latest version

Quote from: Texan78 on September 04, 2012, 10:54:29 AM
Now the Google Analytics Data doesn't work because it appears the URL to Google has changed and is throwing back Error: Not a valid response (404) url: https://www.google.com/analytics/feeds/accounts/default and nothing has changed and it was working fine previously.

I can't confirm that at the moment, but if they changed the url you can't blame me for it. If it's a real issue it's going to be fixed in the next release

Quote from: Texan78 on September 04, 2012, 10:54:29 AM
That is just a couple of examples I have many more.

No, you don't.

Quote from: Texan78 on September 04, 2012, 10:54:29 AM
For anyone else, don't waste your time or money with this mod. It has not helped my forum one bit. It misses several key fundamental SEO techniques.

I'm pretty sure you know nothing about SEO if you're saying that

Quote from: Nibogo on September 04, 2012, 07:48:22 PM
What? How could I benefit from an update?

It's a PAID app, the better and more stable you make it the more appealing it will be for people to want to purchase it. Which means money in YOUR pocket. So how would you not benefit?

Quote from: Nibogo on September 04, 2012, 07:48:22 PM
I never toll you not to reply after I closed the ticket, as I said you were able to re open it.

I did! It went ignored for a month with no reply so I gave up. No communication what so ever that you were investigating it or anything. I don't demand support for something free. But if I PAY for something then yes I demand support and communication in a timely manner. Especially if it is causing problems with my forum. Time is money and I don't like anyone wasting ether.

Quote from: Nibogo on September 04, 2012, 07:48:22 PM
Quite weird you are the only one complaining about it

Go click on WxScripts and Gallery from the menu, does it look like it's working to you? I asked you about this too months ago and it was ignored. Do you remember? Maybe that was another problem you blamed on my server because you didn't know what was wrong.

http://www.wxconnection.com

If you want to see this on a Vanilla board with just the SEO and Gallery mod then here you go.

http://test.wxconnection.com/index.php

Same problem....

Quote from: Nibogo on September 04, 2012, 07:48:22 PM
Page Titles still do not work - (Was blamed on my server when wasn't the case. Found a mod that WORKED to take it's place)
They are working perfectly fine in latest version

On a vanilla board sure, but not on a board with other mods. No worries, I found another solution that works correctly with other mods.

Quote from: Nibogo on September 04, 2012, 07:48:22 PM
That is just a couple of examples I have many more.


No, you don't.

Nofollow doesn't work nor does it work with the Anti-spam links.

Author Tag under meta tags isn't formatted correctly to work with social media sites. Not to mention the meta tags doesn't alter the current header tags. They are added in which creates redundant meta tags. Search Engines hate this.

XML Sitemap throws errors

http://www.wxconnection.com/sitemap/xml

Should I go on? Because I can... It's your money, not mine

I have 45+ mods installed perfectly and running with no problems and tested the forum throughly for months before launching. This mod is the ONLY one that has issues and conflicts with anything. You don't care to hear it or want to make it better. If it works for you or no one says anything you don't care. People are going to install mods, this isn't going to be the only one used.

Quote from: Nibogo on September 04, 2012, 07:48:22 PM

For anyone else, don't waste your time or money with this mod. It has not helped my forum one bit. It misses several key fundamental SEO techniques.

I'm pretty sure you know nothing about SEO if you're saying that

No? Damn well I guess all those years working for Google and 34+ years in Web Development has been a waste.

What's funny is you've responded more to this thread then you have my actual "Support Ticket".

1. It's because you've folders with the same name of the action.

2. I don't know what anti spam links is.

3. If you don't like how meta tags are being created you can disable those, but they are working just fine for me and others.

4. Latest version does not have issues with xml if style file has proper permissions

Quote from: Nibogo on September 04, 2012, 11:23:35 PM
1. It's because you've folders with the same name of the action.

Ok, I see what you're saying and that makes sense. What is a work around for that because I am sure there are others who use these same mods?

Quote from: Nibogo on September 04, 2012, 11:23:35 PM
2. I don't know what anti spam links is.

http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=2404

Quote from: Nibogo on September 04, 2012, 11:23:35 PM
3. If you don't like how meta tags are being created you can disable those, but they are working just fine for me and others.

The meta tags work fine, but they are not formatted correctly for integration with social networks. Example, even though it isn't right by FB and no fault really of this mod. FB uses meta property instead of meta name which throws error in the linter for Author. It also wouldn't hurt to have these statically set in the index template instead of being called dynamically from a sources file.

Quote from: Nibogo on September 04, 2012, 11:23:35 PM
4. Latest version does not have issues with xml if style file has proper permissions

I am using the latest version of 1.1.16. Where are these permissions set?

This topic (http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=455524.0) is for discussion of the mod SMFPacks SEO mod (http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=3082), which is free to download from the simplemachines.org website.

The author has his own forum for the discussion of the paid version of this mod.

Thank you for keeping your comments on topic.

Quote from: AngelinaBelle on September 05, 2012, 12:09:22 PM
This topic (http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=455524.0) is for discussion of the mod SMFPacks SEO mod (http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=3082), which is free to download from the simplemachines.org website.

The author has his own forum for the discussion of the paid version of this mod.

There is no difference between the free and the paid exception for a couple extra things.

The issues I am having are released in the free mod. So the resolution could help others.


With that said, I am offer $100 paid up front to someone who can make Anti-Spam Links mod compatible with this one since the Mod Author has ignored my requests after I offered to hire is services and pay for it but has ignored the request.

Therefore the offer is open to anyone else who is willing to accept the offer.

-Thanks!

Hi!

Is this MOD good working on 2.0.2?
Will be further developement?

bsteamy wrote about smfhacks.com owner Nibogo and the smf seo pro mod:

QuoteNot only that you are lousy businessman, but you lie as well.....
...If you had time issue because of personal things, you could say something about it, not let buyers wait 3 or 4 days for replay. Speed of your reply doesn't really mean anything anyway, since they are worthless. It is very interesting how you found time right away to reply very quickly to critic in public forum

I can confirm that...

I bought this mod for my 6 year old forum and I am very disappointed and angry about very bad support and behavior of smfpacks.com and Nibogo. I always had pretty urls, never any problems with my forum - until I tried to install smf seo pro mod. I bought it after upgrading smf 1 to 2 because I was looking for seo mod.  So I paid 40 Dollars but unfortunately I didn't read this thread before buying it...

Urls are not pretty now and its not so nice in the eyes of google, but smfpacks.com made urgency for this ticket is low. Thats not the kind of support I expected when I bought this product! And its ashaming that smfpacks.com answered >>Please do not bump support requests<<. We have more than 20.000 customers and I myself look for open tickets about 30-40 times a day - also in the evening or at weekend, whenever I am sitting in front of my Computer. satisfied customers are the best advertisement for every company. Our response time is between 30 and 90 minutes at the working ours on 365 days a year

There are two big problems we have with this mod:

1. Mod doesn't edit .htaccess after activating Pretty URLs. So I asked for .htaccess code for following settings:

{boardname}/{boardid}
topic{topicid}

May be there is anybody worldwide who has positive experience with this mod and can give me the .htaccess code or several examples?

2. Second problem are german umlauts (ä,ö,ü,ß)  which aren't shown in the URL. Does anybody know how to fix it?

But when smfpacks.com and Nibogo care about their customers in the way I have learnd -may be it's better to throw this 40$ mod into the rubbish...

I am very, very angry about there behavior, really! This is simply outrageous!

Now, one day later there is still no progress.

I am considering filling a criminal complaint against these guys from SFMPacks.com. They sell srap and do not give a toss for bug fixing. It is a real scandal!  >:(

1. I think pretty urls are good enough for google.
2. The german issue is going to be fixed in the next release, but I cannot do a quick release that I can publish in a day or two.
3. Well I don't have as much time as you for support requests. I cannot offer them the way you want to. Sorry about that.

I won't reply any further reply in this forum as moderators are going to delete them and warn me about it. Ticket already replied

QuoteTicket already replied

In ticket-reply you say: "First of all, I never gave any time for support requests...And sorry, but I cannot offer ten minutes replies if that is what you are looking for." and nothing else which is helping me solving the problems caused from your mod.

If your are unable to support your products in an useful way you have to write this on your website that buyers know that!

I just installed new SMF Forum with core theme / language english and installed SMFPacks SEO Mod - Pretty URLs don't work.

So, I can only disadvise from waisting time and money in SFMPacks.com product. I will now filling a criminal complaint against SFMPacks.com and Nibogo. This is fraud and I will not accept this!

I think you should check again, I am pretty sure I posted more things instead of three dots.

Is this MOD compatible with version 2.0.2?

Quote from: humbleworld on November 13, 2012, 06:34:51 AM
Is this MOD compatible with version 2.0.2?

Yes, you need to emulate te version:
How can I install a mod that doesn't work in my SMF version? (http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/How_can_install_a_mod_that_doesn%27t_work_in_my_SMF_version)

This super-mod - thank you

On one of my themes it asks me to replace this line in index.template.php

<li><a id="button_xhtml" href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer" target="_blank" class="new_win" title="', $txt['valid_xhtml'], '"><span>', $txt['xhtml'], '</span></a></li>


and replace it with

if (!empty($modSettings['seo_enable_sitemap']))
         echo'
            <li><a href="', $scripturl, '?action=sitemap" title="', $txt['seo_sitemap'], '"><span>', $txt['seo_sitemap'], '</span></a></li>';
         
      echo'
         <li><a id="button_xhtml" href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer" target="_blank" class="new_win" title="', $txt['valid_xhtml'], '"><span>', $txt['xhtml'], '</span></a></li>

Ive searched for line to replace it but its not there

Has anybody REALLY gotten this p.o.s. mod to work?

I created a test forum to see how it would work after (regretfully) purchasing it. Nothing but headaches would be the accurate description of the results I got. Downloaded the "beta" version which soiled my test forum from here to kingdom come. After having the author "tweak" the code it appeared stable enough to try on my real forum, although if I touch a single setting it appears to break on contact!

I then attempted to install it on my live forum. I ended up bouncing in and out of maintenance for several hours before I decided this thing has no right even being published in my opinion. URLs break, the error log fills up non-stop and who knows how many endless 404 errors. As you can tell by now I've reached the end of my rope fighting with this ridiculous excuse of a mod.

I purchased this strictly for the URL formatting aspect and I just discovered a freeware mod that does the same thing without any of the errors this thing creates. I'd like to hear how others have made out with this as I only feel at this point it was $50 bucks wasted on this thing.

I solved the Error "no connection to facebook found" in my mod installation by adding a trailing slash / to my URL in APP setting on Facebook.

It is a great MOD!!  :D Thanks to the developer!! :D

Quote from: radiocitybill on April 01, 2013, 05:35:15 PM
Has anybody REALLY gotten this p.o.s. mod to work?

I created a test forum to see how it would work after (regretfully) purchasing it. Nothing but headaches would be the accurate description of the results I got. Downloaded the "beta" version which soiled my test forum from here to kingdom come. After having the author "tweak" the code it appeared stable enough to try on my real forum, although if I touch a single setting it appears to break on contact!

I then attempted to install it on my live forum. I ended up bouncing in and out of maintenance for several hours before I decided this thing has no right even being published in my opinion. URLs break, the error log fills up non-stop and who knows how many endless 404 errors. As you can tell by now I've reached the end of my rope fighting with this ridiculous excuse of a mod.

I purchased this strictly for the URL formatting aspect and I just discovered a freeware mod that does the same thing without any of the errors this thing creates. I'd like to hear how others have made out with this as I only feel at this point it was $50 bucks wasted on this thing.

This mod is working pretty good on my site, but no thanks to the author of the module, poor-ist customer service I've EVER come across...

That's funny, here it seems like I fixed your issues:

http://www.smfpacks.com/b83/something-messed-up-but-may-me/1189/

You should think it twice :)

You must enable it at admin.

I was about to purchase the package, but after reading this thread, I think I will pass.

Wow, what is going on here?
A great product as it seems by the design, close to what the mod "seo4smf" offered back in the "pre-2.0" days. But Support is bad?

Some people think the opposite:

http://www.smfpacks.com/b45/

Hi, I installed this mod in SMF 2.0.7... Where the admin page is? I've been searching the admin section but nothing.

Quote from: Tokzu on February 06, 2014, 07:50:39 PM
Hi, I installed this mod in SMF 2.0.7... Where the admin page is? I've been searching the admin section but nothing.

Administration Centre » SEO Admin Panel

However you will get "An Error Has Occurred!". I have tried to emulate various previous versions, and I have remembered to check the box to install on the theme I am using. It just doesn't work for me :(.

Checkingyour error log should help.

Same here. Can't find settings. Modification installed without any errors.

Replacing the first occurence of $admin_areas with &$admin_areas should do it

Where exactly, in what file? Sorry I'm not an expert. :P

Seo.php at the root of your forum

Geat it works. :)

I'm glad man :)

I installed the Lite version on 2.02.

I see the admin panel.

I activated the Sitemap checkbox, as that is really the only feature I care about.

Where is the sitemap.xml file located?  I'd like to submit it to Google Webmaster's sitemap tool but I cannot locate it.

Open the sitemap page, and at the bottom you'll see a link to the .xml version.

Quote from: kitti on June 30, 2012, 07:36:21 AM
Hello!

I installed the light version and this error keeps appearing into my error log:
This errors are caused by an GoogleBot.

Im using smf 2.0.2

http/index.php?action=sitemap;xml;b=88Datenbankfehler: Unknown column 'b.member_groups' in 'where clause'

I'm experiencing the same problem here. Any solution to that?

File: ../public_html/Sources/Subs-Seo.php
Line: 229

What's the difference between light and pro?

http://www.smfpacks.com/seomod in the features tab you can see all the things included in pro.

I totally lost my trust in this mod (SEO Pro mod from "SMFpacks"). To be honest, I'm very sick of it. So many troubles, problems, questions/support is not so good, this thing, that thing, no, please. Stop it. Stop. it. now.

I want to uninstall this mod as soon as I can. The big problem is,
I don't know how to do it, there is no instruction manual for it and more importantly, all my URL's will be broken, isn't it?

The solution
The solution would be to delete this mod and all the things that are related to it,
and then to normalise the URL's on my forum, as if they're coming out of the box.

Who can help? I'm willing to pay the person who can give me solid advice which leads to the solution, because I want to save my forum.

Please. Help.

I have a problem running the lite version on SMF 2.0.7.

Installation without any error message, but i can't find any SEOmod issue in my administration menu, so  i have any point to activate that package.

have you any hint for me?

Quote from: Gebruiker1000 on May 03, 2014, 10:27:26 AM
I totally lost my trust in this mod (SEO Pro mod from "SMFpacks"). To be honest, I'm very sick of it. So many troubles, problems, questions/support is not so good, this thing, that thing, no, please. Stop it. Stop. it. now.

I want to uninstall this mod as soon as I can. The big problem is,
I don't know how to do it, there is no instruction manual for it and more importantly, all my URL's will be broken, isn't it?

The solution
The solution would be to delete this mod and all the things that are related to it,
and then to normalise the URL's on my forum, as if they're coming out of the box.

Who can help? I'm willing to pay the person who can give me solid advice which leads to the solution, because I want to save my forum.

Please. Help.

It's weird that I have sent a PM to you asking for your account and I have no reply so far. I'm pretty sure you:

1. Don't own the mod.

or

2. Never asked anything.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function seo_social_bookmarks() in /home/##########/public_html/Seo.php on line 1395

I can't use social bookmarks  :(

social bookmarks are only available at the SEO Pro (http://www.smfpacks.com/seomod) version, I think you're missing the one you purchased for the new forum with this one.

Quote from: Nibogo on May 30, 2014, 10:50:09 AM
social bookmarks are only available at the SEO Pro (http://www.smfpacks.com/seomod) version, I think you're missing the one you purchased for the new forum with this one.

I transfered it to myself and you changed the domain to my purchases. If you've time to check my problems tonight, it would be great!
Or I can post errors to this forum if it might help other users.

Quote from: handy1 on May 30, 2014, 11:07:54 AM

Quote from: Nibogo on May 30, 2014, 10:50:09 AM
social bookmarks are only available at the SEO Pro (http://www.smfpacks.com/seomod) version, I think you're missing the one you purchased for the new forum with this one.

I transfered it to myself and you changed the domain to my purchases. If you've time to check my problems tonight, it would be great!
Or I can post errors to this forum if it might help other users.

Yeah I did what you asked, let me PM you because I don't understand the current schema.

Quote from: fondlyPiranha on May 13, 2014, 07:29:34 AM
I have a problem running the lite version on SMF 2.0.7.

Installation without any error message, but i can't find any SEOmod issue in my administration menu, so  i have any point to activate that package.

have you any hint for me?

I seem to be having this problem as well. Tried a manual install, too. No such luck.

Quote from: CapnCoconuts on May 31, 2014, 12:15:31 AM

Quote from: fondlyPiranha on May 13, 2014, 07:29:34 AM
I have a problem running the lite version on SMF 2.0.7.

Installation without any error message, but i can't find any SEOmod issue in my administration menu, so  i have any point to activate that package.

have you any hint for me?

I seem to be having this problem as well. Tried a manual install, too. No such luck.

Same issue here, cannot find it anywhere after installation.

Quote from: nascarwagers on June 06, 2014, 05:35:19 PM

Quote from: CapnCoconuts on May 31, 2014, 12:15:31 AM

Quote from: fondlyPiranha on May 13, 2014, 07:29:34 AM
I have a problem running the lite version on SMF 2.0.7.

Installation without any error message, but i can't find any SEOmod issue in my administration menu, so  i have any point to activate that package.

have you any hint for me?

Same here...seemed to install fine but cant find it in the admin panel!? :o
I seem to be having this problem as well. Tried a manual install, too. No such luck.

Same issue here, cannot find it anywhere after installation.

Hi,

Where can I see the adminpanel side of the mode? Not just images. Live demo?

tynx.

Lite mod does not use SMF's Default SEO friendly URL instead it uses

/index.php?topic=27468.0
/index.php?board=75.0

This should be corrected because when SMF's SEO friendly URL is enabled, it should show the following in sitemap:

/index.php/board,75.0.html
/index.php/topic,27468.0.html

Is there any way to display SMF's SEO friendly URLs in sitemap?

- Kailash

Quote from: Gebruiker1000 on May 03, 2014, 10:27:26 AM
I totally lost my trust in this mod (SEO Pro mod from "SMFpacks"). To be honest, I'm very sick of it. So many troubles, problems, questions/support is not so good, this thing, that thing, no, please. Stop it. Stop. it. now.

I was just about to install the Lite version and buy the Pro version once I'd seen it in action, but thought I'd check the support thread. Really glad I did now because there seem to be more complaints than praise!!

Sad... looks like it might be ideal for me. :(

Quote from: welshdog on July 18, 2014, 02:40:39 AM

Quote from: Gebruiker1000 on May 03, 2014, 10:27:26 AM
I totally lost my trust in this mod (SEO Pro mod from "SMFpacks"). To be honest, I'm very sick of it. So many troubles, problems, questions/support is not so good, this thing, that thing, no, please. Stop it. Stop. it. now.

I was just about to install the Lite version and buy the Pro version once I'd seen it in action, but thought I'd check the support thread. Really glad I did now because there seem to be more complaints than praise!!

Sad... looks like it might be ideal for me. :(

Same here.... Was to click "buy" but then I found this thread....

So, I've read about all of the issues with this mod, but has anyone had a good experience with it? Has anyone seen improvements in their ranking, traffic, indexing, etc? I'm interested in purchasing the pro version, but I don't want to spend the money unless others have had success with it.

Has anyone purchased the PRO version for 2.0.X and had good results?

Quote from: ATX1976 on September 30, 2014, 03:44:56 PM
Has anyone purchased the PRO version for 2.0.X and had good results?

The problem with this question is that good experiences do not lead to visits to this "I need support" thread.

Too bad because this is a complex mod and correct installation is important.

Good question though if the right people were here.

Would it not be fair to say that people who purchased the paid version would be discussing it on the paid site?

Quote from: ATX1976 on September 30, 2014, 03:44:56 PM
Has anyone purchased the PRO version for 2.0.X and had good results?

I purchased the pro version about a month ago. Everything the other posters said about this mod is true. It's plagued with problems. Nothing worked, except for a few parts which were obviously ripped off from other mods.

I took a chance on this mod, hoping to avoid some of the problems others have had by paying for professional installation. Didn't help. As a matter of fact, this Nicolas idiot crashed my forum during installation. He then tried to say that he didn't know that another mod was installed, which was clearly visible in the installed packages.

To add insult to injury, he blamed me and my site for the problems. He was rude, arrogant and customer service was not existent. The only time Nicolas replied quickly was when the discussion was about money. You should of seen how fast he sent me a message after getting the charge back.  ;)

So if anyone else is contemplating purchasing anything from SMFPacks.com, slap yourself. Nicolas is a con artist who is stealing people's money. My suggestion to Simple Machines, remove SMFpacks mods from the site and ban Nicolas permanently. He's a lowlife that's just taking advantage of people.

I've just installed this and can't find anywhere to administer it...I've given up and uninstalled...why doesn't this mod provide a 'Redirect to admin' after install?

Quote from: SergeantAsh on December 14, 2014, 05:13:44 AM
I've just installed this and can't find anywhere to administer it...I've given up and uninstalled...why doesn't this mod provide a 'Redirect to admin' after install?

Hi,
in this post http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=455524.msg3670139#msg3670139 you find the solution.
You must modify Seo.pho file in your forum root.