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pmwwwgtalkvForum | Improved Flash Tags, RSS Feeds, SEO (25th Jul 08 at 10:51pm UTC) Mini-Update Rolled Out to Forums: Improved Flash Support, Meta Tags & RSS Feeds | | A small upgrade has just been applied to all forums. The most noticable new feature, and the one which will be most used, is our improved flash tag support. As many of you will already have known, we've supported embedded YouTube videos for a while. However now we're extended the number of ways you can embed a video and have added limitted support for Google Video.
Now, to embed a video you can use either:- The URL of the page the video is on
- The URL from YouTubes "Embed" option
- The ID of the Video
For example, all of these produce the same result: [flash]http://youtube.com/watch?v=nb9yzIUga4w[/flash] [flash]nb9yzIUga4w[/flash] [flash]http://www.youtube.com/v/nb9yzIUga4w&hl=en&fs=1[/flash]
Because our range of UBBC tags seems to be growing so much we've put together some short documentation listing each tag and what it does, including some you may not know about. UBBC Guide
We've also attempted to make all forums more search engine friendly with this latest upgrade. This has been done by giving you access to your sites meta description, meta keywords and page title as well as allowing you to add additional html into the head element itself. To do this visit the "SEO Settings" page in your admin panel. Linked with this is the implemention of some RSS 2.0 feeds which will provide search engines (and users) with a way to keep up-to-date with what's happening on your forum. These feeds provide a list of the most recent posts in each board and topic. If your browser supports this facility, the RSS icon should light up when viewing any board or topic page.
As always we appreciate your comments & suggestions on upgrades. I hope you enjoy the benefits these new features will bring - Ross - vForums Staff | |
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pmskypemsnyahoo | Re: Improved Flash Tags, RSS Feeds, SEO (25th Jul 08 at 10:53pm UTC) | | Ross! AMAZING! :]. =D!
Time to spam my test boards. :]

What's up with the zeros? =P | |
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pmwwwgtalkvForum | Re: Improved Flash Tags, RSS Feeds, SEO (25th Jul 08 at 10:59pm UTC) | | What's up with the zeros? =P
Just a small bug I noticed with the new [table] UBBC parsing (designed to remove any extra line breaks). The zeros were just a quick way of me checking it while I fixed it | |
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pmskypemsnyahoo | Re: Improved Flash Tags, RSS Feeds, SEO (25th Jul 08 at 11:00pm UTC) | | What's up with the zeros? =P Just a small bug I noticed with the new [table] UBBC parsing (designed to remove any extra line breaks). The zeros were just a quick way of me checking it while I fixed it Ah. kk. And I like the new guide. Though suggestion, perhaps a list of which colors you can use for the [green ] etc? I believe there are only 18.
red, blue, green, yellow, orange, pink, purple, teal, navy, maroon, brown, black, beige, white, limegreen, scarlet, grey, gray, silver, gold | |
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pm | Re: Improved Flash Tags, RSS Feeds, SEO (25th Jul 08 at 11:53pm UTC) | | Looks nice Ross Keep up the good work | |
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pmwww | Re: Improved Flash Tags, RSS Feeds, SEO (26th Jul 08 at 1:58am UTC) | | These are great features Ross thanks .
Have one question (and maybe i missed it or didn't get it) for the google video's would you do the as the youtube to post them ? | |
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pmmsn | Re: Improved Flash Tags, RSS Feeds, SEO (26th Jul 08 at 6:51am UTC) | | Brilliant work Ross | |
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pmwww | Re: Improved Flash Tags, RSS Feeds, SEO (26th Jul 08 at 8:43am UTC) | | The RSS feature is smexi! Really good work there | |
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pmwwwgtalkvForum | Re: Improved Flash Tags, RSS Feeds, SEO (26th Jul 08 at 10:36am UTC) | | These are great features Ross thanks  . Have one question (and maybe i missed it or didn't get it) for the google video's would you do the as the youtube to post them ?
Provided the video you want to embed is hosted on google video, you'd do exactly the same as for YouTube
[flash]http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=7115222702299415340[/flash]
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pmwww | Re: Improved Flash Tags, RSS Feeds, SEO (26th Jul 08 at 1:07pm UTC) | | These are great features Ross thanks  . Have one question (and maybe i missed it or didn't get it) for the google video's would you do the as the youtube to post them ? Provided the video you want to embed is hosted on google video, you'd do exactly the same as for YouTube [flash] http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=7115222702299415340[/flash] Cool thanks Ross . | |
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pm | Re: Improved Flash Tags, RSS Feeds, SEO (26th Jul 08 at 6:05pm UTC) | | Nice, makes things easier. =) | |
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pm | Re: Improved Flash Tags, RSS Feeds, SEO (26th Jul 08 at 8:09pm UTC) | | Strange, the RSS feed doesn't seem to appear for this forum. Any reason why Ross? (It appears on my test forum.) | |
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pm | Re: Improved Flash Tags, RSS Feeds, SEO (16th Aug 08 at 9:46pm UTC) | | How do you use the Meta? I really don't understand it. Please help. | |
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pmwww | Re: Improved Flash Tags, RSS Feeds, SEO (16th Aug 08 at 9:48pm UTC) | | How do you use the Meta? I really don't understand it. Please help.
Which aspect are you having problems with? | |
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pm | Re: Improved Flash Tags, RSS Feeds, SEO (16th Aug 08 at 9:55pm UTC) | | How do you use the Meta? I really don't understand it. Please help. Which aspect are you having problems with?
I never used any meta tags before, and I do not understand how to add them in. (typically in the SEO part)
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