[cdoyle]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

This could be a major issue with this hack:
I experienced something similar with another hack some years ago.

Martin, could you please look into this? I am very hesitant to install this.


I understand that this hack adds a lot of links to the website of the author.
How many links are added per page? At what position?

If this is really the case, then this would hurt your SEO.
It makes little sense to automatically add (hopefully) relevant links, but also add irrelevant links to Martins website. So in that sense only the Pro version seems useful.

And how can you stop the creation of irrelevant tags? Its nice that tags are automatically generated, but if the tags are incorrect or irrelevant, then this hack will amplify small issues into larger ones and will hurt a site similar to how the other automatic tag adding scripts on vb.org hurt SEO. What do you think about that?

It will add a link back to the his site on forumhome, and will also add a link to every thread that it adds the tags too. So it could be adding a lot of links to his site from yours.

I still don't get how this is helping SEO, could someone please explain how this works? I really want to know? How is this any different than adding a bunch of keywords to a page?