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Rik Brown
02-14-2014, 04:33 PM
I'm still using vbseo even though the company has gone out of business. However, at the bottom of each page on our forums is a broken link referring to their Crawability.com website which has been abandoned.

Does anyone know what file to edit to remove that link which takes one to that dead website?

Thanks. -- Rik

RichieBoy67
02-14-2014, 05:45 PM
If you are still using Vbseo 3.6.0 do a search for Vbseo exploit and incorporate the code changes. 3.6 is very easily hackable.

I do not recall how that was set up but you can probably find it in the plug in manager or phrasing. I would check the plug ins first under Vbseo and template changes or something to that extent.

ozzy47
02-14-2014, 07:26 PM
Tbh even though the company in no more, it is still not ethical to remove the branding.

Max Taxable
02-14-2014, 07:28 PM
Ethical to edit the branding though, removing only the dead link right?

ozzy47
02-14-2014, 07:32 PM
Yeah that I would do. :)

Thangvip9x
02-14-2014, 09:23 PM
Go to this directory vbseo/includes and open functions_vbseo.php
Find
global $VBSEO_REWRITE_TEXTURLS;
if(!$VBSEO_REWRITE_TEXTURLS)
$VBSEO_SHOW_COPYRIGHT = (
Replace with
global $VBSEO_REWRITE_TEXTURLS;
if(!$VBSEO_REWRITE_TEXTURLS)
$VBSEO_BRANDING_FREE = (
Save
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cellarius
02-15-2014, 07:37 AM
But note: The above is a clear breach of the license agreement. Even if the company is out of business, the rights to the software are still owned by its creators, and if they would choose to collect some easy money, you're making yourself an easy target.

ozzy47
02-15-2014, 10:47 AM
Correct, you need to find the code that has the link, and unlink it, not remove the code by faking branding free.

Rik Brown
02-17-2014, 05:16 PM
Thank you for all the suggestions.

RichieBoy67
02-17-2014, 05:28 PM
I guess we would have to look at their contract because there is also a chance they could have breached the contract as well. At the very least I would pull a broken link.

Zachery
02-17-2014, 06:50 PM
I'd suggest getting rid of the software, either removing it or finding an alternative.

kdp747
12-07-2014, 02:58 AM
I was searching for "removing vbsoe footer" and found this thread. I did the following to remove vbseo link.

In the functions_vbseo.php , I found the following code.


$cp_str = str_replace('vBSEO', '<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.crawlability.com/vbseo/">vBSEO</a>', $cp_str);


Removed the anchor with plain text vBSEO.

Is this correct?

ozzy47
12-07-2014, 07:50 AM
That would effectively remove the link and should have the text in place yes. :)

HM666
12-10-2014, 07:53 PM
I'd suggest getting rid of the software, either removing it or finding an alternative.

Yep pretty much what I was gonna say. you can replace vBSEO with DBTech SEO and they have a converter that can convert any old vBSEO links to work and be the same with DBSEO in the Pro version.