How,
many Thanks, great Idea to let the User the choose if he like to see the Links or not.
This point i cant?t test (lost my User CP during the Update to 4.1.4 :))

But already test with the external File, working pretty god.

Thanks
Christian

For those wondering about performance when using the data file- in my test with almost 100 keywords and 200 links in a post the page generation on VB 4.0.8 was at most 2/100th of a second more when using the data file as opposed to the internal settings.

this is the best plugi never, people vote on it :)

I thank you for the kind words but I want to stress this is NOT a real alternative to skimlinks or viglinks... However it will work well if you have either of those installed.

The good thing about viglinks/skimlinks is you don't have to sign up for 12000+ affiliate accounts with 12000 different merchants.

Also if a user gives a link to a specific amazon item say, this mod will ignore it- where as the others will still turn it into an affiliate link.

Plus the skimlinks javascript and viglink will also turn any links created by this mod into affiliate links.

I would strongly suggest running skim or viglinks in addition to this mod.

Hi, I am wondering if this might conflict with enabled acronym expansions of vBSEO? Is it possible to run both or is it better to disable the vBSEO feature?

And may I ask one question that might sound stupid to you? What exactly is the SEO benefit and advantage of Word Links? Sorry for being a little unexperienced on this field ;-). And thanks a lot!

I don't have VBSEO so I can't test it. I would try it and see what happens. Unless you used the same keyword as an acronym I don't think there would be a problem.

Honestly I don't know what the SEO benefit is that's why I didn't mention any SEO benefit in the main post. I made this so people could include affiliate links to bring in some money when people buy stuff by following these links mostly. SEO benefit, if any, is secondary.

Thanks for update BirdOPrey5,

here are the German language file for version VB4v15

Thank you all for voting this June 2011 Mod of the Month!!

Igel1 - Thank you for the language update, will update the install file ASAP.