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Darth Pincho



Joined: 07 Sep 2007
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Location: Caracas - Venezuela

PostPosted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 6:01 pm    Post subject: Great script. Excellent. But some observations. Reply with quote

Hi, i really like this script. It is fantastic. You had done a great job. But i have some recomendations.

1) the mf_data folder creation is confuse, i spent 10 minuts debugging was i had done bad in the installation. I discover that the folder have to be created in the lowest level of the account. Please reformulate this explanation or add a tree menu picture to illustrate this.
2) I do not understand why we have to create this folders manually. The can be in the package in order to only do the CHMOD changes.
3) PLEASE, add some basic template to the home page of the script. I mean the main page installed in our domains. In this way we can have a basic platfform to modify and add custom logo, colors, etc. In the same way than subsilver is the default template for phpbb there is a nedd for default template for echo php MF.
4) once the script is downloaded the user can be able to access customer sections in this forum, i have 2 days waiting my approval to enter in this special area. I ask why? im already a customer, and pay for the script. So please some automatization on this will be great.
5) In the page where you publish the requirements you need to paste this text:
Code:
Contact your host provider, and ask if this can be done, prior to make your purschase:

Instructions to install the forum script.

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1. Create a wildcard DNS entry for your domain. If you do not have root access to the server you're hosted on you should ask your host to do this for you; most will. The wilcard entry should look something similar to this:

ServerAlias www.domain.com domain.com *.domain.com

You will also need to add an A entry to the domain's DNS zone. Again, if you do not have the capability to do this yourself you should ask your host. The A entry should look something similar to this:

*.domain.com. A 14400 [SERVER IP]

This first step is very important, if it's not done, you can not use your MF, all forums can not be accessed. If you can not do it or don't know how to do it exactly, contact to your hosting provider.

Step 1 instructions for web hosting with CPanel (Linux Hosting): If you have root access to the server do it yourself, if not contact to your hosting provider, follow these instructions below:
1.   Go to WebHost Manager -> DNS Functions -> Edit DNS Zone.
2.   Choose a Zone to edit -> Add entry like this: *.domain.com.     14400     A     SERVER_IP. For example: *.freeforums.com.     14400     A     231.36.24.156
3.   Log into your server as root, use SSH or something like that.
4.   Edit /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf (usually).
5.   Find a line like this: ServerAlias www.domain.com domain.com
6.   Make it like this: ServerAlias www.domain.com domain.com *.domain.com
7.   Save and close it.
8.   Test apache config file by this command: /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl configtest
9.   If everything is okay, restart apache by this command: /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl restart
10.   Navigate to http://sfsfsdfsdfsewrwerwer.domain.com, if it point to a page same as http://domain.com -> It works fine :).

Why?, well i have not experience with this procedures because my Cpanel do not allow to me do this. When i check the requirements and ask my host provider for them I receive a positive answer, but later when i download the script i cannot find the wildcard features in my cpanel. So for new users or not expert webmasters this can be a reason to be unable of using the script after purschasing it. Due to your non refundable policy echo php MF have to be very carefull on this in order to assure great customer experience and satisfaction.
6) Spanish lang pack will be great, its a nightmare translate all this.
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echophp



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 2:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you for your recommendation, we greatly appreciated your feedback and will have new improvement for the service.

Thank you.
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Darth Pincho



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 1:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You are wellcome.

Well i was inspecting the scrip and will give some other recomendations about the SEO stuff.

Is well konwn that density, proximity, weight, and relevance are teked in high conseideration by google and other major search engines to rank the pages. Thinking in theese i want to propose the admin to check a very interesting mod for php ive been using for a while.

Actually echo php uses a url rewriting mod that is excellent. I run a forum since 6 years ago. 1 year ago i had 150 indexed pages by google, but now i have 10000 post indexed by google and my traffic is 4x than in the past. Having in mind that the main objective of this script is placing adds and give to the users the best forum available in the market, for reaching good indexation, trafic and ads clicks of course, we have to use the most advanced methods to get better rankings.

Initially i install (in my not mf phpbb board) the phpbb-seo.com mixed mod rewrite, then i see a drastic increase in my google indexing but not in my pages ranking and traffic. I was wondering why? well the answer is simple, the post url rewriting does not contain keywords. Well i migrated to advanced mod rewrite and my traffic literally explode. Further improvements leadme to even better rankings and traffic.

Optimal titles Very easy mod with high value for SEO
http://www.phpbb-seo.com/boards/phpbb-seo-toolkit/optimal-titles-vt665.html
Zero Dupe
http://www.phpbb-seo.com/boards/zero-duplicate-vf45/
Google sitemaps Excellent mod. http://www.phpbb-seo.com/boards/gym-sitemaps-vf44/
Dynamic meta tags
http://www.phpbb-seo.com/boards/phpbb-seo-toolkit/phpbb-seo-dynamic-meta-tags-vt74.html

These four mods and advanced mod rewrite are the best SEO combination for phpbb in my opinion.

The directory mod rewrite is wrong, we are placing the category number first and the category keywords later. This damage, weight, prominence, proximity, etc. Put alwas the relevant information first, and the irrelevant one at the end of the url. I mean irrelevant for the rankings.

I will research more your excellent script
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 9:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you for great propositions. We will look into them and will try our best to include them for next releases.

Thank you.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 9:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The google sitemap plugin is going to be includen in the next version of this script??

This is a very important mod because it assure that google will index every post in every forum, so traffic will be increased a lot. And our earnings by google adsense ads also will increase.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Darth Pincho wrote:
The google sitemap plugin is going to be includen in the next version of this script??

This is a very important mod because it assure that google will index every post in every forum, so traffic will be increased a lot. And our earnings by google adsense ads also will increase.

Sorry, i can't sure that i will be available for next version. We are in final stage of v2.1.0. However we will try our best to include it for v2.1.0 updates if possible.

Thank you.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 7:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

echophp wrote:
Darth Pincho wrote:
The google sitemap plugin is going to be includen in the next version of this script??

This is a very important mod because it assure that google will index every post in every forum, so traffic will be increased a lot. And our earnings by google adsense ads also will increase.

Sorry, i can't sure that i will be available for next version. We are in final stage of v2.1.0. However we will try our best to include it for v2.1.0 updates if possible.

Thank you.


Well do your best in this regard. This is a very important mod. In the case od multiforums more important i think.

I think it would be easier to have only one sitemap for the entire multiforums site. And the mf_admin will submit them to google, this allow great indexation besides unexperienced forums admins. The main sitemap can be a sitemap index with the address of individual forums sitemaps.

I think that DCZ will be very interested in work with you in this project. This will mean thousands of back links to him and his website and a great kick for his job.

Indexation is the more important step for traffic generation, then we can worry about SEO but the first step is to being indexed 100% by google and fast.

This modification will not require great changes i think. So PLEASE consider it for next version.
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