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

UPDATED 8th October 2010:

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




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.


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

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.

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??

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.

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

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

nice one :)
thank you!

are there screenshot of the admincp?

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

thanks!

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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 [sign][/sign] 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 [sign][/sign] 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.

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

[QUOTE=Supramania;1997155]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 [sign][/sign] 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 [sign][/sign] 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.[/QUOTE]

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

Links appear to be broken ;)

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

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

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

it works fine mate ;)

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

cheers

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

Ignore if:

html
bbcode
img
url
username
forumname

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

thank u so much :D

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

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

my stamina is no match for coronation street ;)

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-l...culpting-20408
  
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow
  
• http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/090616-130132
  
• http://www.bruceclay.com/newsletter/...-nofollow.html
  
• http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/020141.html

Added: I see this was already answered at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....3&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

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.

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

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

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