vBulletin Mods

As with the new developments around schema.org standards, Google announced that they will highlight page authors in their search results as below.




To achieve this result in SERP's you need to apply authorship markup.

For vBulletin, this can be done by adding the rel="author" markup to the threads, so this tag will get linked to the profile page of thread starter.

In template postbit(_legacy) find:

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Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

Replace it with:

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Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

Example: Becoming A Health Insurance Agent

Only thread starter has the rel="author" tag applied:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

Note: This won't mean all of your members will show up as authors in google search results. Google will consider as original authors only those who have linked their Google Profile pages to your forum.

Works on all vB 3.x

Further reading here

I hope you find it useful.

Very Thanks... Installed

Nice addition!

Won't this put author attribute for every post on the page, not just the first post?

Actually Joe, the conditional makes sure that rel="author" tag will show up at the username of only the first post.

Thanks. Missed that. :o

Hi, can this be done for VB4?.

TIA.

For vb4 please

Thanks Valdet very good mod

I don't use vB4 too much, but I will release the vB4 mod soon, once I get some free time.
Thanks all.

Humori, flm.

waiting for vb4 >>>

Don't see how this would work unless something like this was added to vb profile page:

<a rel="me" href="https://plus.google.com/11111000000XXXX/"> <img src="//www.google.com/images/icons/ui/gprofile_button-16.png"> </a>

Seems like we need another hack. this would make VB and vb profile pages work like Google suggests for multiple author pages. Seems like you'd have to allow another user profile field to accept the Google profile number and then create a hidden link in the form above on everyone's profile page, no?

is there any risk if i use this ? in search angine

This can not be applied to vB 4.x

Could you please let us know how we can do this with vB 4.2 ?

Thank you.