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Astralis
Senior Member
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 Posted - 15 July 2005 : 02:36:31
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I used to use a mod that made pages of the forum easily accessable by search engines and used to get a lot of visitors through that method. But, once I switched to MSSQL Server, that mod couldn't work well because it would time out.
Does anyone remember what this mod was and if there's something around that can do this?
UPDATE: Found it as Topic Maker on SnitzBitz but all the items about it in this forum have been archived.< |
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Astralis
Senior Member
USA
1218 Posts |
Posted - 15 July 2005 : 02:38:33
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Wait a sec...I think the new Google Sitemap mod will do this.
UPDATE: Actually, Google Sitemap is different. Still need assistance.< |
Edited by - Astralis on 15 July 2005 02:55:50 |
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Astralis
Senior Member
USA
1218 Posts |
Posted - 15 July 2005 : 04:18:45
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Here is a specific error I get after it writes 250 topics:
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server error '80004005'
[DBNETLIB][ConnectionOpen (Connect()).]SQL Server does not exist or access denied.
/forum/inc_func_secure.asp, line 53< |
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MarcelG
Retired Support Moderator
Netherlands
2625 Posts |
Posted - 15 July 2005 : 05:13:28
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Perhaps something with too many db calls in too short a time ? (But that's just a wild guess)
Just a tip ; I don't use the topic maker mod, but still Google seems to find his way to oxle very well!
I've used a self-written feature that fills the KEYWORDS metatag of each topic.asp page with the first post of that topic.
Unfortunately that mod was posted at crashsite.nl (crashcode portal), but you could have a look at my inc_func_common.asp and my inc_header.asp to see how it works. (login demo/demo)< |
portfolio - linkshrinker - oxle - twitter |
Edited by - MarcelG on 15 July 2005 05:13:59 |
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Astralis
Senior Member
USA
1218 Posts |
Posted - 15 July 2005 : 17:13:18
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Marcel,
Thank you. I'll take a look at that. You're very generous to provide that feature on your site.
I used to get a lot of hits on the most current subjects after I ran topic maker but now it seems like Google can't even find it.< |
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Astralis
Senior Member
USA
1218 Posts |
Posted - 15 July 2005 : 17:17:05
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| BTW, I like your shrinking utility. How does that work? I guess the code is there too. :)< |
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cladon
Junior Member
Belgium
110 Posts |
Posted - 15 July 2005 : 18:36:13
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| Is it the spider mod?< |
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MarcelG
Retired Support Moderator
Netherlands
2625 Posts |
Posted - 15 July 2005 : 20:25:53
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quote:
Originally posted by Astralis
BTW, I like your shrinking utility. How does that work? I guess the code is there too. :)
Well, in fact that is a commercial linkmanager tool combined with a decimal-to-Base62 encoder and a custom 404.
So, not that difficult to make, however as the core is a commercial product I'm not allowed to provide access to those sources.
Sorry.
I can however provide access to the base62 encoding script (which encodes a decimal number like for instance 3844 into the Base62 string zz.
Or, 'astralis' would be the base62 equivalent of the decimal 129.896.517.759.850, while 'Astralis' (with a capital A) would be the base62 equivalent of the decimal 38.334.537.998.442. 
That one's here: http://www.oxle.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2297#22827 (source of inc_base62.asp, and here's the 404)
You can use it in combination with virtually any linkmanager.
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Originally posted by cladon
Is it the spider mod?
I'm not sure what it was called back then. I know for sure it was still in the latest GML code though.< |
portfolio - linkshrinker - oxle - twitter |
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Astralis
Senior Member
USA
1218 Posts |
Posted - 26 August 2005 : 19:07:34
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Is it the spider mod?
No, it's called Topic Maker Mod.< |
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dayve
Forum Moderator
USA
5820 Posts |
Posted - 26 August 2005 : 20:52:52
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quote:
Originally posted by Astralis
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Is it the spider mod?
No, it's called Topic Maker Mod.
I believe I was the one that introduced this to Snitz members during 3.1SR4. I still have a copy of it that I got to work using the old inc_functions.asp from 3.1 which works fine. I'm sure it can use some major improvements, but if you're interested in it then here it is:
http://www.burningsoulsforum.com/forum/topicmaker.txt
There is some hard coding in this script because back in the day, I didn't think anyone would use it.< |
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Classicmotorcycling
Development Team Leader
Australia
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Posted - 27 August 2005 : 04:45:35
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Then I came along and asked if I could mod it a bit and converted it to work with 3.4.xquote:
Originally posted by dayve
[quote]There is some hard coding in this script because back in the day, I didn't think anyone would use it.
I still use it, but know it has been moded further to include some other stuff...
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Astralis
Senior Member
USA
1218 Posts |
Posted - 30 August 2005 : 02:59:18
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| Cool...Classic, can you share your 3.4.x version? Does it work well with MSSQL Server?< |
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Making topics easily searchable by search engines
