FUZZY SEO Auto Linker (auto link words in posts to any URL)

[MOGmartin]

UPDATED 8th October 2010:

Bug Fix: replacer_a issue SOLVED
Alternate Encodings: SOLVED (plugin now supports other character sets, ie. russian etc.)

Full Plugin DESCRIPTION, SCREENSHOTS, DISCUSSION and more...
CLICK HERE (http://seoforums.org/seo-blog/vbulletin-autolink-plugin/)



GOLD VERSION - BRAND FREE NOW AVAILABLE..
CLICK HERE (http://seoforums.org/seo-plugins/)



SUPPORT & UPDATES:


Installation:
1) download the attached zip file.
2) upload the files in the /upload folder into your VB-Root directory
3) import the product XML

Configuration:
1) under [general settings -> SEO Link Replacement] you can choose whether to link the first occurance, or all occurances of your target words on a page to the URL of your choice. HINT: for SEO purposes just use the first one, for affiliate links you should use all occurances.

2) Adding Keywords / Viewing click statistics: In the main control panel choose: SEOforums.org Auto Link, then click manage. you can add/remove keywords and see their stats very easily in this screen.


USAGE LICENSE - PERMISSIONS - VERY IMPORTANT
This plugin is free to use for the community, as long as the footer link accreditation is kept intact.

[MOGmartin]

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[MOGmartin]

(must be a good plugin if nobody has asked a question yet!)

[KissOfDeath]

How does this work if you use no follow on all of your vbulletin pages?

[MOGmartin]

How does this work if you use no follow on all of your vbulletin pages?

depends by which mechanism you use nofollows, for instance I think the VBSEO one is ran last, so in theory it would add them.

but, it depends on how they are added I guess.

do you have a nofollow plugin installed? if so, let me know how it behaves so that I can resolve any issues.

[KissOfDeath]

depends by which mechanism you use nofollows, for instance I think the VBSEO one is ran last, so in theory it would add them.

but, it depends on how they are added I guess.

do you have a nofollow plugin installed? if so, let me know how it behaves so that I can resolve any issues.

I'm using the no follow option on vbseo, but i'm wondering in terms of seo benefit if you have no follow options turned on then do the links that this mod creates still count and actually benefit your seo??

[MOGmartin]

if you have external nofollows enabled then the destination site will receive no seo value from the links, unless they are specifically whitelisted within VBSEO.

however if you are linking internally to another page on your site, the nofollows are not applied by VBSEO as it only adds them to external ones.

SO: if your forum is about "call of duty" and you have a specific page you want to optimize for that keyword in google, you should use this to link every occurance of that term to that page, and it will improve the internal linking focus of that keyword.

[KissOfDeath]

So their is benefit from using this for internal links only?

[MOGmartin]

it depends on what you want to optimize for mate, for instance on my site I want to appear higher for the search term "seo tools"

SO: I have set it up so that every time someone mentions that keyword phrase in a post, it links to my "seo tools" page.

as they are internal links, they do NOT have the nofollow tag, and my internal linking is now optimized for that page to raise in the serps for the search term.

If Im not explaining myself well here, let me know, I will write a blog post about it!

cheers

MOGmartin

[KissOfDeath]

it depends on what you want to optimize for mate, for instance on my site I want to appear higher for the search term "seo tools"

SO: I have set it up so that every time someone mentions that keyword phrase in a post, it links to my "seo tools" page.

as they are internal links, they do NOT have the nofollow tag, and my internal linking is now optimized for that page to raise in the serps for the search term.

If Im not explaining myself well here, let me know, I will write a blog post about it!

cheers

MOGmartin

I understand i just wanted to confirm,
The problem is the internal links that are on on every page, to me the ideal mod would be something that you could use to put no follow links on your internal links you choose,

If i understand it right, your link juice is split amongst all links on a page so even so for example if you used this mod for the search term "SEO mods" it would still need to share the the link juice with things on the page that do not help your seo like the words: post, forum & thread for example. obviously this mod gets your keyword to take some % of that so it is benefiting but it would benefit more if their were an easy way to put no follow on certain internal linksnot everything so link juice is still being sent to places you don't want it

I know vbseo has some options but

This is the way i understand it, please correct me if i'm wrong i'm not a seo pro like you guys it's just something i'm interested in

[Kolbi]

nice one :)
thank you!

[Kolbi]

are there screenshot of the admincp?

[MichelangeloITA]

Great mod ;)

In my forums I get (for ex. If someone links a thread):

mysite.com/threads/1698-topicname" target="_blank">

I run 4.0.2

[MOGmartin]

nice one :)
thank you!

thanks!

are there screenshot of the admincp?

Will upload some tonight, its very simple so I didnt really bother!

[MOGmartin]

Great mod ;)

In my forums I get (for ex. If someone links a thread):

mysite.com/threads/1698-topicname" target="_blank">

I run 4.0.2

sorry, I dont know what you mean? This plugin changes words to links of your choice, its not thread related??

[MOGmartin]

I understand i just wanted to confirm,
The problem is the internal links that are on on every page, to me the ideal mod would be something that you could use to put no follow links on your internal links you choose,

If i understand it right, your link juice is split amongst all links on a page so even so for example if you used this mod for the search term "SEO mods" it would still need to share the the link juice with things on the page that do not help your seo like the words: post, forum & thread for example. obviously this mod gets your keyword to take some % of that so it is benefiting but it would benefit more if their were an easy way to put no follow on certain internal linksnot everything so link juice is still being sent to places you don't want it

I know vbseo has some options but

This is the way i understand it, please correct me if i'm wrong i'm not a seo pro like you guys it's just something i'm interested in

yeah, what your asking for doesnt work anymore, now pagerank on nofollow links just "disapppears" and doesnt increase the pagerank flow onto other pages that are linked without a nofollow.

[Brandon Sheley]

nice work, I know users that have been asking for this for a long time

[MOGmartin]

nice work, I know users that have been asking for this for a long time

thanks brandon, its been a few years since Ive heard from you, and congratulations on the sale of your site mate!

[TimberFloorAu]

What a great IDEA !

One further enhancement, would be ToolTips on the autolinked keywords !!!

Will give this a go later, checked out your demo, very impressed.

[Supramania]

Question - what if the keyword is contained in a link already?

i.e. - User has posted:

http://www.somesite.com

and "somesite" is the keyword. does it disregard keywords inside URL tags? What about inside other tags? For example, my site has a tag called that replaces the users text with a smiley holding up a sign containing the users text. In that case would the "somesite" be a link within the tag? Or would it disregard that?

Does it also honor [noparse] tags?

Just trying to feel out what the impact of this is, and how I can use it.

[MOGmartin]

What a great IDEA !

One further enhancement, would be ToolTips on the autolinked keywords !!!

Will give this a go later, checked out your demo, very impressed.

Thanks for the kind words! I cant take credit for the idea, but its a super handy plugin for a number of reasons.

I will include the tooltips in the next release in a day or two.

cheers,

MOGmartin

[MOGmartin]

Question - what if the keyword is contained in a link already?

i.e. - User has posted:

http://www.somesite.com

and "somesite" is the keyword. does it disregard keywords inside URL tags? What about inside other tags? For example, my site has a tag called that replaces the users text with a smiley holding up a sign containing the users text. In that case would the "somesite" be a link within the tag? Or would it disregard that?

Does it also honor [noparse] tags?

Just trying to feel out what the impact of this is, and how I can use it.

by default if the word is already in a user made link, the plugin will not touch it (I dont want to get in the way of user experience, so I made sure of that)

HOWEVER: custom tags are not worked into it yet, I will try and work that in for the next release, good idea.

thanks!

MOGmartin

[MichelangeloITA]

sorry, I dont know what you mean? This plugin changes words to links of your choice, its not thread related??

Links appear to be broken ;)

I set www.mysite.com => related keyword, but internal links don't work as well.

[TimberFloorAu]

Perhaps ignore bbcodes and any html links inc. images if possible.

[MOGmartin]

Links appear to be broken ;)

I set www.mysite.com => related keyword, but internal links don't work as well.

you need to type in the full url you want to link to.

it works fine mate ;)

[MOGmartin]

Perhaps ignore bbcodes and any html links inc. images if possible.

Ill stick in a regex filter for all those in the next release, shouldnt be too hard, just never thought about it,

cheers

[Extra PC]

work fine but any chance to make it work with arabic language? cuz i try arabic word but it's not working

[MOGmartin]

work fine but any chance to make it work with arabic language? cuz i try arabic word but it's not working

sure, Im always forgetting other encodings ;)

next release mate,

cheers

MOGmartin

[TimberFloorAu]

Ignore if:

html
bbcode
img
url
username
forumname

Add tooltips, and I reckon you have one of the best mods of the year !

[Extra PC]

sure, Im always forgetting other encodings ;)

next release mate,

cheers

MOGmartin


thank u so much :D

[MOGmartin]

Ignore if:

html
bbcode
img
url
username
forumname

Add tooltips, and I reckon you have one of the best mods of the year !

thank you VERY much for your nice words, I will add all of these tomorrow, expect a re-release in about 18 hours! (its evening in the UK now, so Im logging off!)

cheers!

MOGmartin

[TimberFloorAu]

Its 6:30am here, wheres your stamina man LOL

[MOGmartin]

my stamina is no match for coronation street ;)

[djbaxter]

The problem is the internal links that are on on every page, to me the ideal mod would be something that you could use to put no follow links on your internal links you choose,

If i understand it right, your link juice is split amongst all links on a page so even so for example if you used this mod for the search term "SEO mods" it would still need to share the the link juice with things on the page that do not help your seo like the words: post, forum & thread for example. obviously this mod gets your keyword to take some % of that so it is benefiting but it would benefit more if their were an easy way to put no follow on certain internal links not everything so link juice is still being sent to places you don't want it


Adding a nofollow option would not help. Indeed, changes in how Google handles the nofollow tag make the use of that tag virtually pointless.

See:


http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/

http://searchengineland.com/google-loses-backwards-compatibility-on-paid-link-blocking-pagerank-sculpting-20408

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/090616-130132

http://www.bruceclay.com/newsletter/volume68/mattcutts-nofollow.html

http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/020141.html


Added: I see this was already answered at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1997133&postcount=16 but you might find the links I added useful for providing more information on what has changed.

[MOGmartin]

Adding a nofollow option would not help. Indeed, changes in how Google handles the nofollow tag make the use of that tag virtually pointless.

See:


http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/

http://searchengineland.com/google-loses-backwards-compatibility-on-paid-link-blocking-pagerank-sculpting-20408

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/090616-130132

http://www.bruceclay.com/newsletter/volume68/mattcutts-nofollow.html

http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/020141.html


Added: I see this was already answered at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1997133&postcount=16 but you might find the links I added useful for providing more information on what has changed.


HOWEVER - a nofollow option per keyword for external links would help, so that you could sell specific words on your forum content, and nofollow them to ensure you dont get in any trouble from google.

I will add that feature today,

cheers

MOGmartin

[djbaxter]

Frankly, I'm at a point where I refuse to play any more nofollow games or do Google's work for them. I don't nofollow anything any more. I'd love to see some of these antitrust suits succeed. Google needs to be reined in a little until they lose some of the arrogance they've acquired in the past few years.

[MOGmartin]

Frankly, I'm at a point where I refuse to play any more nofollow games or do Google's work for them. I don't nofollow anything any more. I'd love to see some of these antitrust suits succeed. Google needs to be reined in a little until they lose some of the arrogance they've acquired in the past few years.

neither do I mate, and to be totally honest, my priorities for this plugin are:

1) promote internal linking of certain pages
2) link offsite for SEO benefit of the target site
3) affiliate links.

Im sure for most people, affiliate links will be the #1 reason to use this plugin. Heck, when I ran a poker forum, I earnt thousands a month off the old geek plugin that achieved something not dis-similar.

[djbaxter]

No thanks button here, so {thumbs up}. :)

[MOGmartin]

No thanks button here, so {thumbs up}. :)

feel free to nominate at MOTM, or give it 5 stars ;)

[TimberFloorAu]

or 3.5 !

Cos lets face it anyone who watches Corrie needs their head examining, inc my missus who still watches it, since we moved to Oz

[MOGmartin]

or 3.5 !

Cos lets face it anyone who watches Corrie needs their head examining, inc my missus who still watches it, since we moved to Oz

I only moved back to the UK two years ago (spent 25 years abroad), and Im already hooked.

anyway, those other things that were suggested, will post a revised version tonight mate!

[kiawah75]

Hi this looks like a great mod. I just had a quick question, do these internal links only appear on the moderators/admin post or every post by every user?

[MOGmartin]

Hi this looks like a great mod. I just had a quick question, do these internal links only appear on the moderators/admin post or every post by every user?

every post by every user. to extract maximum value you want as many as possible ;)

[MOGmartin]

NEW VERSION RELEASED:

now has tooltips per link
optional nofollows per link
improved handling of not linking if the keyword exists within a specified series of tags.

please upgrade!

[MOGmartin]

NEW VERSION RELEASED:

now has tooltips per link
optional nofollows per link
improved handling of not linking if the keyword exists within a specified series of tags.

please upgrade!

GOLD version available accreditation link (branding) free, in the next few hours.

If you want a copy, please PM me.

[oddmud]

Holy crap this is awesome, installed and voted!

[oddmud]

Anyway to make this go back and check key works and change them? Instead of just adding to new keywords?

[oddmud]

You need to clean up how it tags your slogan in the footer. Take a look at my site at the bottom. There's no space between the previous bit and yours, and maybe they should have <br>'s in there or something.

[MOGmartin]

Holy crap this is awesome, installed and voted!

Anyway to make this go back and check key works and change them? Instead of just adding to new keywords?

You need to clean up how it tags your slogan in the footer. Take a look at my site at the bottom. There's no space between the previous bit and yours, and maybe they should have <br>'s in there or something.

shit, Id fixed that, I must have uploaded the wrong file, Im just going home now, will upload the new one in an hour or so.

cheers for flagging this!

MOGmartin

[oddmud]

It's on both your fuzzy SEO and this one.

[MOGmartin]

It's on both your fuzzy SEO and this one.

yep, I reuploaded it to my board and checked the adminCP, but not the forumhome ;)

ooops

anyway, fix being posted in 5 minutes...

[MOGmartin]

yep, I reuploaded it to my board and checked the adminCP, but not the forumhome ;)

ooops

anyway, fix being posted in 5 minutes...

fixed, please reinstall....

thanks!

MOG

[nekiw]

do I have to add 1 keywrod each time? or can I easily add a bunch of keywords somehow at once?
I did try with space between keywords, and "," between, but nothing worked.
ps: you have any idea how I can change the color of the links in vbulletin ? since I dont want to use default

[benjaminlwells]

I'm quite interested in the possibility of this. I have a fairly large Wiki integrated into my VB, and would like use auto linker to connect many words to wiki entries. My concern is server load. If I enable a lot of these, how will this effect load time? Will I have to worry about this jacking up my 'max_user_connections' or 'max_questions' resources on my database?

[MichelangeloITA]

Works great! 5 stars! You rock man :D

[KissOfDeath]

Not sure what you change in the new version, but it slows the hell out of my forum, big thread wont load at all and i was gettin constant "SQL server gone away" messages, and no matter how much i increased the wait_timeout value it wouldn't go away

It actually crashed my server (And i'm not on cheap hosting, i have a VPS to my self with only 1 domain hosted on it) when i tried to backup my database while it was installed, i had to get them to do a manual rebbot and they said that ctrl alt delete wouldn't even work they have to power it off to reboot it

[MOGmartin]

I'm quite interested in the possibility of this. I have a fairly large Wiki integrated into my VB, and would like use auto linker to connect many words to wiki entries. My concern is server load. If I enable a lot of these, how will this effect load time? Will I have to worry about this jacking up my 'max_user_connections' or 'max_questions' resources on my database?

Not sure what you change in the new version, but it slows the hell out of my forum, big thread wont load at all and i was gettin constant "SQL server gone away" messages, and no matter how much i increased the wait_timeout value it wouldn't go away

It actually crashed my server (And i'm not on cheap hosting, i have a VPS to my self with only 1 domain hosted on it) when i tried to backup my database while it was installed, i had to get them to do a manual rebbot and they said that ctrl alt delete wouldn't even work they have to power it off to reboot it

so both of these posts are basically about the same thing, so I thought I would answer them in one go.

At the moment, this plugin doesnt really have a huge amount of consideration for overheads or board size (bad of me I know, but Im on cloud hosting at rackspace and that can take a HUGE load, and my board is still tiny by comparison to many).

ALSO - this plugin was really built for my use, but Im releasing it here on vb.org for others to use as well (in exchange for links or donations of course!).

BUT - thats not to say that I wont take this stuff into consideration, its just I hadnt thought about it much pre-launch.

I will have a think about how it can be improved over the next few days and come up with a newer version mid next week. Any additional feedback you can give me in the meantime is highly valued, it all helps me to improve the product for me and for you!

thanks

MOGmartin

[MOGmartin]

do I have to add 1 keywrod each time? or can I easily add a bunch of keywords somehow at once?
I did try with space between keywords, and "," between, but nothing worked.
ps: you have any idea how I can change the color of the links in vbulletin ? since I dont want to use default

at the moment its one by one, I could arrange an import from csv though... I need to sort out any potential performance issues and other bugs first, but I will include that in the next week or two.

thanks

MOGmartin

[MOGmartin]

Works great! 5 stars! You rock man :D

well thank you! feel free to nomintate for MOTM as well ;)

[Big-Pete]

Im on cloud hosting at rackspace and that can take a HUGE load

Sorry, A bit off topic, But im curious about cloud hosting, How does this work with VB? is it easy to integrate? I've got a amazon S3 account but it looks complicated to set up, so if Rackspace is easier i'll get an account there..

[MOGmartin]

Sorry, A bit off topic, But im curious about cloud hosting, How does this work with VB? is it easy to integrate? I've got a amazon S3 account but it looks complicated to set up, so if Rackspace is easier i'll get an account there..

no problems - Ive looked at S3 as well, but have found rackspacecloud far, far easier to get to grips with.

Its not only an excellent dependable platform, but it handles spikes with total ease. I had a massive traffic spike about a year ago on a site that host there, and received 120,000 visits in the space of 3 hours to a wordpress site, and it handled it with no slowdown whatsoever.

Its not cheap (I think it starts at $150 per month these days, although Im grandfathered in on the old $100 per month rate) - BUT ITS TOTALLY WORTH IT.

In the last 10 years Ive used probably 25+ hosts, and this one is hands down the best.


EDIT: In response to your question on integration, yes, its super easy, the php hosting is dead straightforward, and the only modification to the db handling is an unusual hostname rather than "localhost". They will give you a free trial month to get to grips with it, give it a shot, you will be impressed, I GUARANTEE...

[KissOfDeath]

so both of these posts are basically about the same thing, so I thought I would answer them in one go.

At the moment, this plugin doesnt really have a huge amount of consideration for overheads or board size (bad of me I know, but Im on cloud hosting at rackspace and that can take a HUGE load, and my board is still tiny by comparison to many).

ALSO - this plugin was really built for my use, but Im releasing it here on vb.org for others to use as well (in exchange for links or donations of course!).

BUT - thats not to say that I wont take this stuff into consideration, its just I hadnt thought about it much pre-launch.

I will have a think about how it can be improved over the next few days and come up with a newer version mid next week. Any additional feedback you can give me in the meantime is highly valued, it all helps me to improve the product for me and for you!

thanks

MOGmartin

The first version was fine and i didn't notice and drain on resources at all

[MOGmartin]

The first version was fine and i didn't notice and drain on resources at all

neither have I, but then my board while traffic heavy has a small database. My old board used to get a few thousand posts per day and was on a smaller VPS, back then resources were a big issue for me, but alas, not right now.

[MOGmartin]

NEW UPDATE

screenshots, description and more, see the two main links at the top of the description area.

[djbaxter]

1. In the demo thread on your forum, the auto-links don't seem to be working, at least not in IE8.

2. What is the difference between this version and the Gold Version?

[MOGmartin]

1. In the demo thread on your forum, the auto-links don't seem to be working, at least not in IE8.

2. What is the difference between this version and the Gold Version?

the GOLD versions of all my plugins are now available at:
http://seoforums.org/seo-plugins/

Whats the difference between the gold ones, and the free ones here on vb.org?

1) they are branding free
2) fully supported in a private members area at seoforums.org
3) all new feature development is exclusively for the paid versions, the free versions will now get bug fixes, unless something is deemed absolutely necessary.
4) personalised seo advice from me, if you want it that is!

Best regards


MOGmartin

[MOGmartin]

New version released, mainly bug fixes, the linker wasnt working well on boards with heavy RSS traffic (like mine), and it was incompatible with some other plugins, all thats resolved now.

please redownload and reinstall.

GOLD VERSION OWNERS:
Please download the plugin from the priority support area at http://seoforums.org


Interested in Going GOLD on this plugin? Want full support? Want Branding Free???

Buy it here


(http://seoforums.org/seo-plugins/)
thanks!

[abqtj]

Installed, working fine.

I'm still REALLY new at this kind of thing, but it seems to work for the one link I made. Any advice someone may have for links to create would be welcome, though.

So far, I just did one to change "amazon" to a link to our affiliate coded url. I guess that's correct?

[abqtj]

Oh, one other question. What was the second zip file within the initial package for? I didn't load anything from that.

[MOGmartin]

Installed, working fine.

I'm still REALLY new at this kind of thing, but it seems to work for the one link I made. Any advice someone may have for links to create would be welcome, though.

So far, I just did one to change "amazon" to a link to our affiliate coded url. I guess that's correct?

yes, thats correct, check out my blogpost for more inspiration as to what to do:

http://seoforums.org/seo-blog/vbulletin-autolink-plugin/

Cheers!

[MOGmartin]

Oh, one other question. What was the second zip file within the initial package for? I didn't load anything from that.

there shouldnt have been a second zip file, I must have compressed it in error, I will update the package, thanks for pointing that out.

cheers

[KissOfDeath]

Theirs a bug in this one,

for example i put a url in a code box like this:

My Link (http://www.mywebsite.com)

It displays on the post as:

[replacer_a]

(words used in "My Link" are not on the keywords list)

[ctrenks]

I Installed on VB 3.8.4 and am getting a few [replacer_a] in posts now as well. These areas are not realated to Keywords added

[dondavis]

Hi, your addon is greate but it don't work for russian language :(

[Extra PC]

wait answer please

http://seoforums.org/auto-link-vbulletin/802-arabic-support.html

[MOGmartin]

hi folks,

been working on my new, latest and greatest plugin for a while, and been away for a week, hence why I havent been on the board (here or my one).

new release should be out by next weekend, thanks everyone for the continued support.

if anyone is interested in my new MOD, take a look on my site (linked in the footer) and check out the badge in the top position of the right hand column :D

[RoughOcean]

Will this work on 3.8.5?

[LifesGreatestGift]

Yeah. Uninstalled due to the [replacer_a] issue.

Hope this gets fixed. Great idea/mod.

[MOGmartin]

Will this work on 3.8.5?

nope. use the Geek Autolinker on 3.x boards.

Yeah. Uninstalled due to the [replacer_a] issue.

Hope this gets fixed. Great idea/mod.

Fix due out next week, just finishing my new MOD, Ultimate SEO profile badges, you can see a demo over at seoforums.org right now (right hand column).

cheers

MOGmartin

[paramegsoft]

nice mod but not support arabic languge

[PPUS]

Works great except it gives the [replacer a] error and kills any banner adds that have the keyword to link in them. Not sure if you uploaded a new one yet or not but I had to disable it until it ignores keywords within a code.... bbc or html.

[doraj]

Hello Martin, congratulations for your Mod, it's excellent.
I have this situation for you; I am testing your Hack and I use last version of vBSeo.
As default settings, vBSeo - Seo Functions -Internal rel="nofollow"s has:

1) Add rel="nofollow" to ALL Sorting Links (Yes)

Enable this option to prevent search engines from following links to pages with the same content, but sorted differently. These pages might be tagged as "duplicate content". Therefore, we recommend enabling this feature.

2) Add rel="nofollow" to ALL Dynamic Pages (Yes)

Enable this option to prevent search engines from following ALL dynamic links. Some examples are: 'Post Reply' links, 'Quote' links and 'Quick Reply' or 'Search' links. These pages have non-relevant (or "noise") content which should not be indexed by search engines , resulting in better SEO.

3) Add rel="nofollow" to Links pointing TO Member Profiles FROM Postbit (Yes)

Enable this option to prevent search engines from following links to member profiles found in posts.

4) Add rel="nofollow" to Links pointing TO Member Profiles FROM Forumhome (No)

Enable this option to prevent search engines from following links to member profiles found in your Forum Homepage.

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Now, if I leave this settings and I try to create a new auto linker keyword with your Hack I have this, from a source code of a page:

Example word : CMS

<a rel="nofollow" onclick="replacer_hook(1)" target="_blank" href="http://www.mysite.it/ (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/view-source:http://cms.p2psin.it/)">CMS</a>

vBSeo suggest in the description of points 1 and 2 to keep enabling the option to "Yes" but in this way
each keywork create with your system has the "nofollow" tag.
According to you, what is best advice to resolve this situation?

Thank you

[NNJJ]

is it working for 3.4?

[Xencored]

Right the auto links bit looks awesome

I installed it and all my URL old rewrites are now bad to normal Vb ones?
What did i miss here?

[DougJ]

Hi,
I'm new to the forum world (owner instead of user anyway) and have a site that will go live in a month or so. I see a lot of reference to the SEO Forum and wanted to know if someone would educated me on what it is, what value I would get from it and if I really need it for my site and forum.
Thanks in advance!!

[giorgino]

This plugin is incompatible with 4.0.4. Fix please and upadate :)

[ChopSuey]

is it working for 3.4?

What version is that? :D

[jay5r]

I installed the software and found that if the targeted text was in an existing link it would mess things up - the original link would be corrupted. I notified the developer of the problem and he said a new version was pending. Then I never heard back from him. I've contacted him twice and received no reply.

[bnimbhal]

I have purchased a Gold version from seoforums.org, but when I installed it I found that the version is not a brand free.

I posted a complaint on their forum and its being more then 10 days but no reply form their side.

Your Purchase No.: 67

Kindly remove their link form Vbulletin.org

[oddmud]

Any update on this so it'll work in v4.0.4 PL1?

[schlottkej]

kills 4.0.4...

[HorizonWebs]

we have a slight issue, we need to have keywords such as sleeves an sleeve that would both link to the same link

however when done we get the follow results in a post

For those that have used both: is there a noticable difference between these two poles at under 30 ft. I plan to put a hogshair brush, reach around and shark sleeves-covers.html">sleeve on the pole.

If you closed your eyes could you tell the weight difference? Could you see the slightly lesser bend in the wfp-s.html">gardiner-wfp-s/slx-poles.html">SLX at full length in use? Are the components much different in quality; couplings, hose?

[schlottkej]

Has anyone got this running properly on 4.0.4?

[Beermonster]

I would like to use this but will have to wait for a fix for 4.0.4

[ukgamblingforum]

I installed it and I'm not seeing the menu in CPanel ...

vb 4.04.

[kharmer]

Perfect, just what we wanted - BUT.

Getting 'Fatal Error', running vB4.0.5.

Fatal error: Call to a member function query_read_slave() on a non-object in C:\path-to-forum\includes\class_postbit.php(321) : eval()'d code on line 10

Doesn anyone have issues on the later builds of vB 4.0.x?

No errors from the admincp, just the front end throws the above error.

Would be interested in purchasing the gold version if it gets fixed for latest versions of vB in time for a our launch.

Uninstalled for the time being.

[kharmer]

I've fixed my instance of this; here's how (vB 4.0.5).

> Go to vB admincp
> Navigate to 'Plugins and Products' -> 'Plugin Manager'
> Under 'Product : SEOforums.org SEO Link Replacement' click the 'Replacer main' entry
> In the 'Plugin PHP Code' box, change all occurrences of '$vbulletin' with '$this->registry' (4 occurrences in all)

Thats it.

Hope this helps,
Kris...

[porschegruven]

On vb 4.0.5
PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function query_read_slave() on a non-object in /var/www/html/includes/class_postbit.php(321) : eval()'d code on line 10,

[kharmer]

On vb 4.0.5
PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function query_read_slave() on a non-object in /var/www/html/includes/class_postbit.php(321) : eval()'d code on line 10,

See my post just above yours; explains how to fix this.

Kris...

[filt]

Doesnt it replace words in admin-posts?

[your24hourstore]

not sure why but this wont work in 4.0.6 causes an error in class_postbit.php

[Breixo]

Yeah. Uninstalled due to the [replacer_a] issue.

Hope this gets fixed. Great idea/mod.
+1 still got problems

[MOGmartin]

Hi Everyone, I have recently upgraded my board to 4.0.6 as well, so expect a fix out in the next few days.

working on it now!

[LifesGreatestGift]

STILL waiting on the replacer_a fix. Hmmm... Been this way since april 2010? I keep hearing, "Ill release a fix this weekend" Its been months. Whats up with that?

[tpearl5]

would like to see a fix for this too

[bradolson]

any update?

[Conner85]

I've fixed my instance of this; here's how (vB 4.0.5).

> Go to vB admincp
> Navigate to 'Plugins and Products' -> 'Plugin Manager'
> Under 'Product : SEOforums.org SEO Link Replacement' click the 'Replacer main' entry
> In the 'Plugin PHP Code' box, change all occurrences of '$vbulletin' with '$this->registry' (4 occurrences in all)

Thats it.

Hope this helps,
Kris...

That worked wonders for 4.0.7. Just figured I'd let everyone know.

[jmw]

Does this work with 3.8.4? Never mind. Vbseo has this feature I just found out.

[MOGmartin]

UPDATE - 8TH OCTOBER:

I have uploaded a revised version, please reinstall the upload files, and re-import the XML (allow overwrite = yes).

This release fixes:

the replacer_a bug when links were embedded in other links...
Added Support for other language encodings.

As always, support will be given on seoforums.org where I spend much more time.

thanks everyone,

MOGmartin

[oddmud]

What about the menu crap it leaves behind when you uninstall it?

[Brandon Sheley]

thanks brandon, its been a few years since Ive heard from you, and congratulations on the sale of your site mate!

thanks, unfortunately it looks like the new owner let it die :down:

[MOGmartin]

thanks, unfortunately it looks like the new owner let it die :down:


I released a new version TODAY!!!

:D

[MOGmartin]

What about the menu crap it leaves behind when you uninstall it?

I'll get that in a release early next week mate, sorry.

I havent uninstalled it from my sites, so hadnt noticed sorry.

thanks

Martin

[tpearl5]

still getting this on every thread page:

Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Unknown modifier '1' in [path]/includes/class_postbit.php(321) : eval()'d code on line 113

and then in threads all posts where replacements would be, there is no post text at all.

This is with 4.0.7

[MOGmartin]

still getting this on every thread page:

Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Unknown modifier '1' in [path]/includes/class_postbit.php(321) : eval()'d code on line 113

and then in threads all posts where replacements would be, there is no post text at all.

This is with 4.0.7



are you using a custom skin, and if so does it work with the standard templates?

[Braincrusher]

Any way to use this plugin only for guests, not logged in members?

[MOGmartin]

not at present, but if enough people are interested I could add that.

[tpearl5]

are you using a custom skin, and if so does it work with the standard templates?

Nope, the templates are all pretty standard. Maybe vbseo is conflicting?

[MOGmartin]

Nope, the templates are all pretty standard. Maybe vbseo is conflicting?

mine is fine, with vbseo - I will check with the coders and see if they can give me a quick fix

[ARPRDcom]

I get the problem with the replacer_a on post that is using the BBCode such as Glow. It looks normal on other post but any post using paypal button or those BBCodes it messes up...

James

[EconomicVoice]

Take the letter 'a' out of the 'Tags excluded from replacer' box and all seems to be fine.

[ARPRDcom]

Yep you are right ... That seems to have fixed it ..

Thanks ....

Take the letter 'a' out of the 'Tags excluded from replacer' box and all seems to be fine.

[nikki712]

Is there any way to link phrases? For example, if I want to link to "blue widgets", is there a way for me to do that?

Great mod, btw!!!!

[Brandon Sheley]

I finally got 4.x installed on the live site, time to play with this mod :)

[vikris]

I've installed this mod and works great in forums, but I can't get it to work on CMS. Does this mod provides this kind of linking or not?

For example, I have linked one keyword to an article in CMS. That keyword appears correctly linked in the forums, but in another article in CMS the same keyword is not linked.

Please, point me to the right direction.

BTW, this is very great mod! :)

[Igel1]

If you write in bold, the links are not shown but it is just [replacer_a]

Example

Test Test (http://www......de/)

[tpearl5]

mine is fine, with vbseo - I will check with the coders and see if they can give me a quick fix

Any ideas with this? I don't know what else could be causing it. I tried disabling some other mods that have hooks in postbit but with no success in getting this working.

[0verl0rd]

Now let me point out, selling links IS AGAINST google’s guidelines, so tread carefully, but this could actually be a rather large revenue source ;)


which google is meant by this? the adsense or the search engine?

[Cybeth]

do not buy http://seoforums.org. The money is gone.

[8thos]

Oh wow you can make money off of this?

*googles affiliate links*

[tpearl5]

still getting this on every thread page:

Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Unknown modifier '1' in [path]/includes/class_postbit.php(321) : eval()'d code on line 113

and then in threads all posts where replacements would be, there is no post text at all.

This is with 4.0.7

I figured this out - it has to do with keywords that start with numbers. As soon as I removed those keywords, the errors went away.

Not quite sure how to fix it, but here's some info:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php


When working with a replacement pattern where a backreference is immediately followed by another number (i.e.: placing a literal number immediately after a matched pattern), you cannot use the familiar \\1 notation for your backreference. \\11, for example, would confuse preg_replace() since it does not know whether you want the \\1 backreference followed by a literal 1, or the \\11 backreference followed by nothing. In this case the solution is to use \${1}1. This creates an isolated $1 backreference, leaving the 1 as a literal.

[sonlaol]

have a bug
This mod replaces keywords include in <a href="" title=""> :(

[8thos]

K I actually read the thread. I installed Google Adsense a week ago and am now signed up for Google Affiliates. After reading this thread, I'm really excited about using this plugin. Part of Google's terms state that us webmasters are not supposed to click on our own links. If I'm not clicking on our own links and are only using the autolinker for internal pages on our website and for affiliate links we gained through Google Affiliates, I should be safe right? I will be testing this modification soon. I'm only earning like a dollar a day from regular Google Adsense ads and I just installed Google Search Boxes the other day. Hopefully this modifcation will raise my site's daily income.

[islaremota]

I do not understand why you need to add a link to a forum pocker, I have not given permission.

This plugin can never be number 1, I take it off and

[reimic]

Sorry i have some problmes to understand the logic about this thing. Is it possible to make the word "iphone" to a google affilante link to make some money? or is this only for internal linking?? if yes, where can i sign up to sell this links over google (or somewhere else?)

[8thos]

This plug-in doesn't work.

[PixelStreamed]

your product doesn't work with .travel domains. says "bad link format" error

[Taurus1]

Works great on 4.1 PL2

Thank you very much!

[Taurus1]

Can you please look at your link that gets added at the bottom. It is added right next to my copyright text. Is it possible to move it below my copyright? Thanks.

124404

[onehost]

very nice...too bad I do not have a large forum that this would be useful....

suggestion: allow us to change link color...with some types of
forum themes, it can be a little difficult to see the links...

(1) Allow to change link color
(2) allow to change link font/type/size

also have a question...I have a few posts in one section, some words were
linked, while other words in other posts were not linked...I thought all
the keywords that I target are supposed to be linked...right?

[Habsy]

Forgive my ignorance here but what exactly does this mod do? Once installed do you have to manually add keyword and urls?

[emath]

this is a great mod, too bad the coder abanded it ... it happends to much lately..

[onehost]

replacer_a issue SOLVED

This is not solved. I just recently uninstalled this product, even though
this was not the primary reason, but I did notice quite a few posts
that had replacer in them...

[BaanFarsang]

Doesn't work on 4.1 PL2

[final kaoss]

There's your answer.

USAGE LICENSE - PERMISSIONS - VERY IMPORTANT
This plugin is free to use for the community, as long as the footer link accreditation is kept intact.

Can you please look at your link that gets added at the bottom. It is added right next to my copyright text. Is it possible to move it below my copyright? Thanks.

124404

[Taurus1]

ehhh....I think you misunderstood extreme-gaming. I am not asking to remove the copyright, just moving it. (Look at screenshot)

Anyways. I uninstalled this. Not working properly!

[final kaoss]

ah ok. Gotcha.

[Samsine]

thank yout for sharing your mod. download an nominate.

[JIMRANGERS]

UNINSTALLED: WAS linking keywords to 3rd party sites! Not very good!

[Samsine]

I've installed this mod and works great in forums, but I can't get it to work on CMS.
For example, I have linked one keyword to an article in CMS. That keyword appears correctly linked in the forums, but in another article in CMS the same keyword is not linked.


I've the same problem.
I change the code and linked keywords in CMS-comments. But it don't work in cms-articles.
Please help to link keyword in articles.


Best Regards

[bigtree]

pretty cool but does weird things to the forum button and attachments. Its also inconsistent with linking.
It would we a big improvement it you could edit the links rather than having to delete them over overwrite.

please keep working on this. Its a much needed mod!

[eh69]

How to enable this mod only for guest?

Im trying:
$ret = preg_replace($pat,'<vb:if condition="!$bbuserinfo['userid']"><a'.$rel.$alt.' onclick="replacer_hook('.$v['id'].')" target="_blank" href="'.$v['link'].'">\1</a></vb:if>',$ret,$rep_count,$count);
But I have T_STRING error from this: bbuserinfo['userid']

Anybody can help?

[x YNWA x]

What exactly does this mod do? Is it meant to turn words into links? If so I just tested it and it does not seem to work.

[x YNWA x]

Hi
Got it working. But I think users would probably be annoyed by words automatically linking to other sites. What value does this give to the site other than linking to affiliate schemes to make money?

Is there anyway it can be done so that the links show for everyone apart from the VIP user group? Cheers

[Maxi62]

Goes this as vb 4.12?
When links are generated in the posting or viewing the thread?
If the database / server burdened by constant queries?

[Samsine]

I've the same problem.
I change the code and linked keywords in CMS-comments. But it don't work in cms-articles.
Please help to link keyword in articles.

Do you have a solution?


Goes this as vb 4.12?
It`s working on 4.1.2 ;)

[madshark]

Could you please tell me how to uninstall your plugins ? Ive removed them via the manage products page but the settings link on the Admin CP still show for both :
SEOforums.org Auto Link / SeoForum Queries plugin

Thanks

[DNN]

Sounds like a good plugin

[x YNWA x]

Hi

Is there any way of setting this up so it only works in certain forums? For example I would want it to work in forum ID 27 and nothing else. Thanks

[NgocTam]

[replacer_img]
dont work in vBulletin 4.1.0

[GONUMBER6]

I think this mod is great. I use it to link to several articles on the home page, especially for questions that are asked over and over... and over.... and over....

This mod can be very useful in many ways!

I have found that I get the [replacer_a] only when applying BOLD FONT to the post and images within the post. How can I repair this minor issue?

[eh69]

Here is other mod where I havent problem with replacer_a: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=263699

[JannuBl22t]

I found that it doesn't work for keywords that repeat for example:

photoshop
adobe photoshop
adobe photoshop cs3

it fails for all of them, but if I use only one of them then it works.

[mahakala]

I found that it doesn't work for keywords that repeat for example:

photoshop
adobe photoshop
adobe photoshop cs3

it fails for all of them, but if I use only one of them then it works.


confirmed. would be nice if this could be fixed in den replace-function. links are breaking else :/

regards

[hanhdn]

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2011/09/25.png
Error when i insert link! how to fix this?

[DNN]

this plugin is not working

[ultimategeek]

very new at this so sorry for the question:
upload the files in the /upload folder into your VB-Root directory

i use filezilla so where do i put this?

[Samsine]

It works with 4.1.5 and 4.1.7

I've installed this mod and works great in forums, but I can't get it to work on CMS. Does this mod provides this kind of linking or not?

For example, I have linked one keyword to an article in CMS. That keyword appears correctly linked in the forums, but in another article in CMS the same keyword is not linked.

Is there a way to replace words in articles - any solution?


Regards

[Samsine]

no answer, that's too bad.

Regards

[islaremota]

4.1.10 Ko

[ARPRDcom]

replacer_a is still an issue with the BOLD bbc code, can someone fix ?

[icemanic]

4.1.10 Ko

does it work for you?

[ARPRDcom]

It works but there is still a problem with a_replacer when it comes to bold links


does it work for you?

[kamran_dotnet]

anyone check "FUZZY SEO Auto Linker" on vbulletin 4.2 ?

[PingCity]

After installation on vBulletin 4.2 and adding links (the latest version), it prevents the system from displaying the posts body and returns an error at the top of the page.

[g00gl3r]

Can you still get the gold? The link doesn't work these days by the looks of it.

[Emad ELsayed]

Hello dear
It works vb 4.2.3
but there is still a problem with a_replacer and [replacer_img] when it comes to bold links
What is the solution to this problem

[hugoroger]

It works just fine.. no issues.. you guys simply don't know how to configure and set it up. be more specific with your issues so we can help out.