Hidden Back Links - Let content thieves promote your site
 

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What does it do

It inserts some hidden links (back to your forum) into the content of long posts. If someone steals your content, copy & paste a post to other places, there will be at least a link back to the original URL of your site. Good for SEO too.

Since you can't stop content thieves anyway, why not take some advantages?

Install

Step 1: import product-copyright.xml
Step 2: add this to the main css->additional css definition

Advanced
* for SEO purpose, there is an option to choose links back to a thread or a post.
* the back links will become visiable after copy&paste. if you like them to stay hidden, just open and modify template "copyright"

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i do not recommend to do this cause this may be bad for SEO.

Sounds stupid?

Yes, stupid enough. It is so easy to remove the back links. But from my experience, thieves are busy, blind, or more stupider. Most of them won't remove the links. You can't image how many back links i got this way.

You could modify the phrase "copyright_source" to some unique string. And google for it.


Will it hurt my SEO?

I can't promise that. but I think it does more good than evil. You could give your opinions here.




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hmm sounds good. what does everyone else think about it.

Thanks for sharing.

Think il be using this after i have seen what others have to say about it.

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sorry, wrong version uploaded. plz download again.

Sounds good, I'm gonna try it.

Thanks for sharing.

If the link is also embedded on your own forum as well then you have two links to that thread on your site and this could potentially hurt your SEO.

I'm not sure I'd take the risk from this, hiding links on your own site can dramatically hurt your search engine optimization.

http://www.google.com/support/webmas...n&answer=66353

Use with caution if you feel such a measure is neccassary

i've done a lot of suvery before implement this on my own site.

check your own source code, you will find that you already get a lot of hidden links with vbulletin by default. all the popup menu links are.

with this mod, you will get one more hidden link which pointing to the same url of that page. this is obviously without intention to deceive users and i think google is smart enough to tell that.

and if the links were copied to the other sites, they become non-hidden links. of course they do help your seo.

PS. if you were so afraid of hurting your SEO, you could make it visible even in the original post. just not add the css. the back links will be inserted too.

This has great potential but right now I think i will test this some before going live since i do not want to get penalized with google.

how will I understand that it is working properly