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.

[Wulfnoth]

Originally Posted by Dean C

Yep, bug will be fixed in the new package this evening.

Thanks.

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by clarksta

tryed to install this but get a db error


any ideas on how to fix this

Do you have any more information from that screen?

[projectego]

[high]* projectego clicks install [/high]

[clarksta]

Originally Posted by Dean C

Do you have any more information from that screen?

no thats all i get
ive looked to see if the db has been created which it has
im puzzled my self on this tbh
sreenie for you
http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/2622/errorax7.jpg

MySQL Error : Table 'linkback' already exists Error Number : 1050
Date : Wednesday, September 5th 2007 @ 02:04:29 PM
Script : http://www.*******.co.uk/forums/admi...=productimport
Referrer : http://www.*******.co.uk/forums/admi...?do=productadd
IP Address : **.***.**.***
Username : *******
Classname : vB_Database

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by clarksta

no thats all i get
ive looked to see if the db has been created which it has
im puzzled my self on this tbh
sreenie for you
http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/2622/errorax7.jpg

Haha, i need all the text from inside of that textarea. There's an important error message that should be at the bottom !

Edit: ah, okay I know the problem. It's because you've tried to install the product twice. Am i right?

[clarksta]

Edit: ah, okay I know the problem. It's because you've tried to install the product twice. Am i right?

lol no this is the first time ive ever tryed to install this but i am going to look and let you know

[Slave]

Here you go ..

After having a look in the db I can see why there is more than one entry coming into the mod queue .. however that isn't explaining the extra empty rows in the linkback table at the bottom of the page ..

Perhaps it's getting confused due to the similarity of the URL?

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by clarksta

lol no this is the first time ive ever tryed to install this but i am going to look and let you know

Have you installed vBSEO before by any chance? Also, can you show me the structure of your linkback table, and tell me what fields it has, and some sample data?

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by Slave

Here you go ..

Ok .. after having a look in the db I can see why there is more than one entry coming into the mod queue .. however that isn't explaining the extra empty rows in the linkback table at the bottom of the page ..

Perhaps it's getting confused due to the similarity of the URL?

Hmmm, this may present a problem with dynamic URLs. There's nothing I can really do about it other than fix the empty lines appearing.

[clarksta]

no never used vbseo dont want to spend that sort of money out
ive taken a ss of the tables in phpmyadmin
http://img454.imageshack.us/img454/131/tablesdi7.jpg