Show Thread Enhancements - Guests See First Post Only (updated that it doesn''t affect spiders)

I made this mod after being requested at my forum by a user and thorught to share it here as well in case other users will find a use for it as well

http://www.forumservices.eu/showthre...-hack-from-Ipb

ANyway this hack will allow you to show the first post to guests and hide the rest. You can enable and disable from the Acp where you can add the message that you want to be displayed to guests instead of the post. You can also choose forums to be excluded from the hide post limit.

The mod is not supported.

A new version that shouldn''t afefct spiders can be downloaded at my forum. Support for the mod is also provided there.

http://www.forumservices.eu/vb/showt...irst-Post-Only

The mod is free. However registration is required to download it.

Arabic translation added, courtesy of Dr.osamA

[sas forum]

Hey bro, can the mod be changed to allow the first x number of posts to be seen versus justt he first one? I have not downloaded the mod yet, but would be willing to go to your site to do so if it can be set to allow another number of posts to show.

Personally, I don't have an issue going to your site, but if an update is released to a mod here, I get an email about it so I can grab the latest version. Not to beat a dead horse, but that is why I prefer to get mods here, but am not against getting them elsewhere as I have done so in the past many times.

Thanks for the time taken creating this mod. I am looking forward to implementing it on our boards.

[borbole]

Originally Posted by GeorgeB85

They did, and you were rude to them as well.

Don''t lie now. You were the very first one to ask. And after you ,only another user asked about this as well and I was not rude. I simply told him that I wouldn''t upload it here. What is rude about that? Or when doesn''t care to your needs pronto then that is rude. Well, we got different definition about that.

Originally Posted by Wilfred1

and now for something different..., about the mod

I have always been led to believe that if Google indexes your site and adds the posts to their search, if a person clicks on a link in a Google search and get a "You can't see this" on your site then eventually Google will find out and black ban your site...I have heard this happening many times.

I use to use a "Guest first post only mod" on my 3.8 site without spider access and it hurt my Google ranking something chronic. Allowing spiders without allowing the post to be seen by a guest via a search engine link has been discussed many times at VBSEO and here on vb and every time it has resulted in "Don't Do It".

So can you advise why it would be different with this mod...thanks

That is a first I hear about google ban for such a thing. I am using this mod in several forums of my clients who use google adsense and none of them until now has been banned from google adsense.

Originally Posted by sas forum

Hey bro, can the mod be changed to allow the first x number of posts to be seen versus justt he first one? I have not downloaded the mod yet, but would be willing to go to your site to do so if it can be set to allow another number of posts to show.

Personally, I don't have an issue going to your site, but if an update is released to a mod here, I get an email about it so I can grab the latest version. Not to beat a dead horse, but that is why I prefer to get mods here, but am not against getting them elsewhere as I have done so in the past many times.

Thanks for the time taken creating this mod. I am looking forward to implementing it on our boards.

The thing is that atm I am a little busy and don''t have much free time. But later on when I will have some more free time, I will look into this

In the meantime find this part at the mod file:

PHP Code:

!$post['isfirstshown'] 


And change it to:

PHP Code:

$post['postcount'] -2 


Replace 2 with whatever number you want. That number represents the number of first posts that will be shown to guests and hide the rest of them.

[Liquid1ce]

bah just change your user agent to
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)

[BirdOPrey5]

I hate to be the barer of bad news but what Wilfred1 said is completely correct- this is the definition of "cloaking" - that is sharing different info with google then you do with a regular visitor and it is 100% against Google's most sacred rule. If someone reports your site YOU WILL GET BANNED FROM GOOGLE- and you may never get back on, if you do it will take at least 1 year. There is no appeals process, there is no debate- when Google confirms cloaking you are removed... period... the end.., Honestly everyone would be using this if that wasn't the case. Imagine if you had to register on every site you ever found in google before seeing the info you wanted.

Ask a "SEO Expert" if you don't believe me but this is common knowledge on the 'net.
http://www.google.com/support/webmas...y?answer=66355
http://www.google.com/support/webmas...n&answer=35769

If anyone cares about Google I strongly urge them to read the links above, search for "Google Anti-Cloaking Policy" and stop using the updated version of this mod immediately. You can not show different content to googlebot then you do any other visitor.

[8thos]

So... I can use the 'Download now' version at the bottom of the first post.

but the 'updated one' that I'd have to join his site to download would get me in trouble with Google?

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by Octavius.

So... I can use the 'Download now' version at the bottom of the first post.

but the 'updated one' that I'd have to join his site to download would get me in trouble with Google?

That's what it looks like to me... I'm sure you could use the other version too so long as you don't configure it for googlebot.

FYI- This is how I report sites that use 'cloaking' when I find them:
http://www.dailytechnologytips.com/2...to-google.html

And it's not google "ad sense" you have to worry about. no one gives a hoot what adsense sees- it's googlebot for searches- that is what will get you banned from google search listings. Adsense is not the issue.

[gutelaune]

works wonderfull
thank you

[borbole]

Originally Posted by gutelaune

works wonderfull
thank you

You are most welcome

[midnz]

Perfect! Just what I needed. Installed, voted and nominated. Thanks .

[borbole]

Originally Posted by midnz

Perfect! Just what I needed. Installed, voted and nominated. Thanks .

You are welcome