Recent content by TacticsUK

Another vote here for some sort of video integration. We have a very strong community and people want to upload vids direct to our site. We are potentially losing people to FB groups in the same niche due to the ease of video sharing. Sever space and processing aren't an issue for us but if...

Just to update you that clearing the permissions tables in the DB allowed the import to run. Also to note that this is post VBulletin upgrade so the table already contained information and your plugin didn't perform a truncation on the existing data.

I'm receiving the following error on import: Mysqli statement execute error : Duplicate entry '3-0-node-549-general-viewNode' for key 'user_group_id_unique' Zend_Db_Statement_Mysqli->_execute() in Zend/Db/Statement.php at line 317 Zend_Db_Statement->execute() in...

Cheers, had read that already - but that say set it all up before hand. But in the real world I don't see how you can get all the styling and plugins and configuration done before some kind of import. We don't have a clean install with all the styling in, we have an install that has content in...

Hi, Looking to move a biggish board to XF and we have completed an install and some styling and an import. Due to the size of the board and extra functionality we wanted on there we needed to import to be able to style as well as possible, install plugins, tweak settings etc. I am sure there...

@Digital Doctor - I preferred Hotbot arond that time, or Lycos. I do still use Alexa to show trends in competitor sites and it is usually pretty close. This is when comparing it to Hitwise data that a competitor puts out in press releases so show how big they are so using that as a bench-mark...

I can't see anything on the Bad Behaviour site that mentions anything about blocking people who have the Alexa toolbar installed on their browser. Having the Alexa toolbar installed and it reporting usage data back to Alexa is no different to Chrome reporting usage data back to Google...

More specifically how your Google traffic held up after the update. I have a forum I would like to migrate and my SEO head always swings me towards a clean URL structure where posts (or content of any type) can be categorised by the URL strucutre, as someone alluded to above. So your adsense...

No Google stats there at all. The Alexa stats are gathered from users who have the Alexa toolbar installed, you can't block that from your servers as far as I am aware, the toolbar sends back stats to Alexa, it isn't from robots or spiders. Shawn is saying they are mitigating users of little...

Nice find! Anyone got a hitwise account so we could double check against ISP data? :D Forgive the cynical side of me but what would a big advertiser say in the face of very big traffic drops apart from "Nothing to see here!". The extra pages pulled by Googlebot don't really mean anything...

As a general gauge of site traffic I find it to be a very good indicator. Site traffic rises and falls that I see in Google Analytics for the sites that run are mirrored in Alexa more often than not. Is it 100% reliable? No. Nothing apart for on page analytics or server logs can give you the...

Hi Alfa1, I am kind of glad that someone else has voiced this concern and I am not the only one thinking this. I look at forums in the same way that I look at a CMS. In drupal I can adapt the URL structure to suit my needs and likes, same with Wordpress. I can hack VBulletin about (or at...

In all seriousness, speak to the hand! Joking aside, given the mac rumours (a VB3 site) being badly hacked, I don't really fancy my chances with VB. But if XF can't provide a more flexible URL structure then VB might be the best of a bad bunch. That said though it does look like a mod account...

XF doesn't limit the number of words in the URL, here is one I made on my test site just now: forums.mysite.com/threads/here-is-a-thread-title-just-to-show-that-xenforo-is-not-limiting-the-number-of-words-in-the-url.9240/ Having the node title in the URL does help, it helps with relevancy...

Hey Claudio. As I said, I have been gaming Google since 1999, looks like the author of that piece was still in nappies then. Think about hierarchical structures, linking patterns and how they merge and you might get where I am coming from. If you don't agree then that's fine but the article...