Remove "SEO by vBSEO 3.6.0" Link from forum footers
 

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

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.

Tbh even though the company in no more, it is still not ethical to remove the branding.

Ethical to edit the branding though, removing only the dead link right?

Yeah that I would do. :)

Go to this directory vbseo/includes and open functions_vbseo.php
Find
Replace with
Save
Please click like button

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.

Correct, you need to find the code that has the link, and unlink it, not remove the code by faking branding free.

Thank you for all the suggestions.

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.

I'd suggest getting rid of the software, either removing it or finding an alternative.

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.

Removed the anchor with plain text vBSEO.

Is this correct?

That would effectively remove the link and should have the text in place yes. :)

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.