[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by ckgb

I was just wondering about the general opinion here.

Anybody else thinks that "Powered by vBulletin" helps hackers out to target VB powered websites?

I GOOGLED the copyright and google did a great job.

Is there a way to prevent google from indexing a specific statement?

Sure does sadly enough.

You can edit the header template and remove the powered by phrase in the titleimage and simply replace it with the bburl variable.

Edit Header template and find:

	<vb:if condition="$stylevar['titleimage']"><div><a name="top" href="{vb:link forumhome}" class="logo-image"><img src="{vb:stylevar titleimage}" alt="{vb:rawphrase x_powered_by_vbulletin, {vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle}}" /></a></div></vb:if>

Replace this:

{vb:rawphrase x_powered_by_vbulletin, {vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle}}

With this:

{vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle}

Result:

	<vb:if condition="$stylevar['titleimage']"><div><a name="top" href="{vb:link forumhome}" class="logo-image"><img src="{vb:stylevar titleimage}" alt="{vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle}" /></a></div></vb:if>

Per vBulletin themselves you can also take a screenshot of your footer (the copyright text) then replace it with the image so when they google "Powered by vBulletin" your site will not be listed yet the image is there and still displays the copyright to members just in photo format instead of crawlable text I cannot find copyright as image info easily though so I'll leave that googlin' up to you!