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]

Yep, the latest code didn't make it into the zip file for displaying linkbacks on the showthread page. I'm not very well this weekend, so please be patient with me

[Dean C]

v1.2 uploaded

[ericgtr]

Originally Posted by Dean C

v1.2 uploaded

I just updated, removed and reinstalled all of it. I will report my findings. Thanks for the update.

One thing I did notice about the prior version is that if I had several and selected Yes to only one and No to all the others, it would process them all at one time. Just though I would point that out.

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by ericgtr

I just updated, removed and reinstalled all of it. I will report my findings. Thanks for the update.

One thing I did notice about the prior version is that if I had several and selected Yes to only one and No to all the others, it would process them all at one time. Just though I would point that out.

Ah of course. Will see if I can fix that tonight. I'm trying to implement pingbacks in the commercial product at the moment

[DanaRVT]

Hmmm, installed new product and within minutes had tons of linkbacks to moderate, however all coming from my own domain.. where can I set the blacklist? Also even though I had all set to No, it made me process each one separately.

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by DanaRVT

Hmmm, installed new product and within minutes had tons of linkbacks to moderate, however all coming from my own domain.. where can I set the blacklist? Also even though I had all set to No, it made me process each one separately.

The blacklist is set in the options section of the admincp. Is your domain URL different from your forums?

[Dean C]

I've updated the zip again with a new admincp file. I've removed the All Yes and All No options for now, and added a new option called "Leave", which won't approve/not approve the linkbacks. Just upload the latest version of dcseo.php tp the admincp folder, if you installed the initial version of 1.2

[Mecho]

and what happen if we select Leave ?

[ericgtr]

Dean, just a thought here but since you already have the cpnav_dcseolinkbacks.xml in the left menu in the admin cp, why not add the DCSEO Linkback Settings to that? It would be easier to have all the settings in that location.

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by Mecho

and what happen if we select Leave ?

It leaves it in the moderation queue.

Originally Posted by ericgtr

Dean, just a thought here but since you already have the cpnav_dcseolinkbacks.xml in the left menu in the admin cp, why not add the DCSEO Linkback Settings to that? It would be easier to have all the settings in that location.

Could do, I'll see if I can whip something up. XMLRPC is driving me nuts at the moment