Dodgyness

[Dean C]

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What's with all these sites, mirroring vB.orgs content. I only found one site which seems to be pirating my linkbacks mod, the others seem to be mirroring the content of modification posts, and offering a link to vBulletin.org

[FleaBag]

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=dcseo&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

What's with all these sites, mirroring vB.orgs content. I only found one site which seems to be pirating my linkbacks mod, the others seem to be mirroring the content of modification posts, and offering a link to vBulletin.org

Without having a look, sounds like RSS to me. I just stumbled upon a vB piracy site - I signed up thinking it was a legit mod community. It's shocking what they have there.

[Dean C]

Hmm, so vB.org offers an RSS feed for the whole of modification posts? There's certainly some people who are offering my mod for download on those links. Even if it's only one or two :)

[Brad]

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=dcseo&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

What's with all these sites, mirroring vB.orgs content. I only found one site which seems to be pirating my linkbacks mod, the others seem to be mirroring the content of modification posts, and offering a link to vBulletin.org
If that bothers you stay far away from the torrent trackers.

[Dean C]

Ah, well I'm gonna catch the ++++ers that pirate my paid mod :) Mark my words.

[smacklan]

Ah, well I'm gonna catch the ++++ers that pirate my paid mod :) Mark my words.
Good luck...for every one you catch, there are hundreds you won't ;) They spread like a disease.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Hmm, so vB.org offers an RSS feed for the whole of modification posts? There's certainly some people who are offering my mod for download on those links. Even if it's only one or two :)
RSS feeds can only get content that is available to guests, so they might be able to get the thread text this way, but not the modifications themself.

[Dean C]

RSS feeds can only get content that is available to guests, so they might be able to get the thread text this way, but not the modifications themself.

Perhaps you should only offer the first 100 characters of posts in RSS feeds. They literally are mirroring the content of the post, no matter how long it is :)

[Guest190829]

I took a look to see if it was possible to limit amount of chars, but couldn't find any. Also, external.php doesn't provide a good hook location to dynamically alter the content before converting it too RSS/XML...etc...etc...

[Dean C]

Might be a worthwhile code-edit then perhaps?

[Guest190829]

Might be a worthwhile code-edit then perhaps?

I don't know. In regards to Modifications, the attachments are really the only thing that need to be protected, and they are.

So if people are mirroring content, the viewers are going to eventually end up here if they want to download the modification.

[Dean C]

I don't know. In regards to Modifications, the attachments are really the only thing that need to be protected, and they are.

So if people are mirroring content, the viewers are going to eventually end up here if they want to download the modification.

It depends how much value you place on the actual posts as your content. Personally, I'd only let them index the modification titles :)

[FleaBag]

It seems to be a trend of late, I think a lot of these sites are MFA. I've stumbled accross several when trying to find vBulletin stuff - it's a pretty good tactic, take all this site's content - make your SEO superior to vB.org (not difficult) - profit from ad clickers.

[ericgtr]

It seems to be a trend of late, I think a lot of these sites are MFA. I've stumbled accross several when trying to find vBulletin stuff - it's a pretty good tactic, take all this site's content - make your SEO superior to vB.org (not difficult) - profit from ad clickers.
I think I can partially see how they could benefit from SEO by allowing spiders to see more content but how do these fly by night copy sites get more superior SEO?