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 hornstar1337

Question: you are developing this new SEO product, dont you think it is time to upgrade your forums from vBulletin Version 3.0.7 to the latest o_O

With all due respect, whatever version I choose to run my forums on, is none of your business

[Slave]

Working on a 3.6.0 forum .. thanks

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by Slave

Working on a 3.6.0 forum .. thanks

Excellent. Do you have a link to one of your showthread pages with some linkbacks on? I'd like to take a better screenshot today

[Slave]

removed

I will in a min

[Slave]

That page above has one now .. but why the blank line one min after the correct one?

[Slave]

Ok .. seems like it creates a blank line every time the link above is hit. Even if the linkback is denied the blank line stays.

Could you make it so if a linkback is ok'ed it is then ignored, else you'll start to get a lot of items in the moderated list which you've already ok'ed and you don't need in the linkback list again do you?

Also, could you stick in a delete button for admin against a linkback, in case you change your mind and want to delete a link off the list?

[Dean C]

It should not ask you to process linkbacks if they've already been approved once. This is very odd. I'll try and replicate it when I get home

[Slave]

Just to note, it stopped doing it once I'd clicked the link more than about 3 times. It was only when you clicked on the link did it then add another blank line and showed up in the mod list (again) ..

So you might need more than one person clicking the link to see it happen?

[Dean C]

Did it appear in your admincp to be approved more than once then?

[Slave]

Yep .. every blank line I've declined it in the mod list ..