Miscellaneous Hacks - DCSEO Linkbacks (Refbacks implementation)

Introduction

Dear Friends,

After much thought I have decided to release part of my upcoming DCSEO modification to the community for free.

What does this modification do?

This modification offers you the facility to track URLs that link to threads on your forum. Instead of me trying to explain to you what a linkback actually is I'll link you to wikipedia's explanation of it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linkback

This modification implements refbacks, but not trackbacks or pingbacks (these will be included in the DCSEO modification). Any sites that the system *thinks* link to you, are put into an approval queue in the admincp which you will see in the left-hand nav after you install the mod. This moderation queue can be turned off, but I would strongly reccomend never turning it off!

The reason this will offer you a major benefit to your search engine rankings and PR (for google), is that it will create relevant inbound and outbound traffic to your forum which the search engines love.

Installation

Download the attached zip and open the readme.txt file, and follow the instructions within it.

Support

I will be around to offer support wherever possible, but please do not PM me asking for support, as I will not respond. If you have any bugs, report them in this thread and I'll fix them as soon as possible. I am rather busy at the moment with work during the day, and full-time development of the DCSEO product in the evenings, so please be patient with me if I take a little while responding to your posts.

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by ericgtr

For now I have turned it off, just because I am getting about 20 different google countries an hour and there are way too many for me to decifer and add one at a time. Still have it installed though, looking forward to this update.

You could just add "google." to the blacklist. The problem with allowing wildcards, is that the way this works, wildcards automatically added at the beginning and end of every item. So if i started giving people the ability to wildcard domains like google, they'd type "google.*" right? Well by typing "google." in the box anyway, you'd do exactly the same. I might add wildcard/regex support tonight, and let people risk ++++ing things up at their own risk

[Mecho]

today when i woke up i saw many links waiting for moderate .. a huge list . when i want to moderate them and approve server goes down what shall i do ???

thank u

[Dean C]

You're saying it crashes your server moderating the links? What error message does it give? Can you take a screenshot? I will be splitting up the moderation of links on to pages, so that'll take the load off if you have 1000s

[Mecho]

Originally Posted by Dean C

I will be splitting up the moderation of links on to pages, so that'll take the load off if you have 1000s

yea great idea . if u can make a system like Send Email system in vb that would be great . Automatic system will approve all links ( 10 by 10 or N by N ) . so u dont need to check all to yes in page then save then again do that in new page(s) . what u think ?

there is no error message that i can show u any screenshot . but after about 4 or 5 minutes the dcseo.PHP file comes for download and still none of those links approved

[Dean C]

It asks you to download the file O_O. That's baffling. Seems more like a server issue than an issue with my code, but I'll look into it.

[ericgtr]

Thanks for the info Dean, I didn't realize I could just use google without the .com, it appears to be working now.

On the the next issue (I am happy to help test this out though) it appears that some of the google's got through even though I thought I said no to all of them, no big deal though. The thing is my display has empty cells in the thread. Here's a screenshot.

[Dean C]

It doesn't look like you are using the latest code from the plugin. Can you PM me the contents of the "Process incoming links" plugin please

[Mecho]

Originally Posted by Dean C

It asks you to download the file O_O. That's baffling. Seems more like a server issue than an issue with my code, but I'll look into it.

i think it s timeout error from server . but i think the reason is the approving the huge list .

[Dean C]

Hmm to those getting the bug with blank listings on showthread, it seems that fix didn't make it into the zip. Will issue an update later

[PeteBlume]

Originally Posted by ericgtr

Thanks for the info Dean, I didn't realize I could just use google without the .com, it appears to be working now.

On the the next issue (I am happy to help test this out though) it appears that some of the google's got through even though I thought I said no to all of them, no big deal though. The thing is my display has empty cells in the thread. Here's a screenshot.

I've even installed this plugin and have the same problems. Is there any fix?

Greetings