Miscellaneous Hacks - FUZZY SEO Auto Linker (auto link words in posts to any URL)

UPDATED 8th October 2010:

Bug Fix: replacer_a issue SOLVED
Alternate Encodings: SOLVED (plugin now supports other character sets, ie. russian etc.)

Full Plugin DESCRIPTION, SCREENSHOTS, DISCUSSION and more...
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SUPPORT & UPDATES:


Installation:
1) download the attached zip file.
2) upload the files in the /upload folder into your VB-Root directory
3) import the product XML

Configuration:
1) under [general settings -> SEO Link Replacement] you can choose whether to link the first occurance, or all occurances of your target words on a page to the URL of your choice. HINT: for SEO purposes just use the first one, for affiliate links you should use all occurances.

2) Adding Keywords / Viewing click statistics: In the main control panel choose: SEOforums.org Auto Link, then click manage. you can add/remove keywords and see their stats very easily in this screen.


USAGE LICENSE - PERMISSIONS - VERY IMPORTANT
This plugin is free to use for the community, as long as the footer link accreditation is kept intact.

[MOGmartin]

Originally Posted by oddmud

It's on both your fuzzy SEO and this one.

yep, I reuploaded it to my board and checked the adminCP, but not the forumhome

ooops

anyway, fix being posted in 5 minutes...

[MOGmartin]

Originally Posted by MOGmartin

yep, I reuploaded it to my board and checked the adminCP, but not the forumhome

ooops

anyway, fix being posted in 5 minutes...

fixed, please reinstall....

thanks!

MOG

[nekiw]

do I have to add 1 keywrod each time? or can I easily add a bunch of keywords somehow at once?
I did try with space between keywords, and "," between, but nothing worked.
ps: you have any idea how I can change the color of the links in vbulletin ? since I dont want to use default

[benjaminlwells]

I'm quite interested in the possibility of this. I have a fairly large Wiki integrated into my VB, and would like use auto linker to connect many words to wiki entries. My concern is server load. If I enable a lot of these, how will this effect load time? Will I have to worry about this jacking up my 'max_user_connections' or 'max_questions' resources on my database?

[MichelangeloITA]

Works great! 5 stars! You rock man

[KissOfDeath]

Not sure what you change in the new version, but it slows the hell out of my forum, big thread wont load at all and i was gettin constant "SQL server gone away" messages, and no matter how much i increased the wait_timeout value it wouldn't go away

It actually crashed my server (And i'm not on cheap hosting, i have a VPS to my self with only 1 domain hosted on it) when i tried to backup my database while it was installed, i had to get them to do a manual rebbot and they said that ctrl alt delete wouldn't even work they have to power it off to reboot it

[MOGmartin]

Originally Posted by benjaminlwells

I'm quite interested in the possibility of this. I have a fairly large Wiki integrated into my VB, and would like use auto linker to connect many words to wiki entries. My concern is server load. If I enable a lot of these, how will this effect load time? Will I have to worry about this jacking up my 'max_user_connections' or 'max_questions' resources on my database?

Originally Posted by KissOfDeath

Not sure what you change in the new version, but it slows the hell out of my forum, big thread wont load at all and i was gettin constant "SQL server gone away" messages, and no matter how much i increased the wait_timeout value it wouldn't go away

It actually crashed my server (And i'm not on cheap hosting, i have a VPS to my self with only 1 domain hosted on it) when i tried to backup my database while it was installed, i had to get them to do a manual rebbot and they said that ctrl alt delete wouldn't even work they have to power it off to reboot it

so both of these posts are basically about the same thing, so I thought I would answer them in one go.

At the moment, this plugin doesnt really have a huge amount of consideration for overheads or board size (bad of me I know, but Im on cloud hosting at rackspace and that can take a HUGE load, and my board is still tiny by comparison to many).

ALSO - this plugin was really built for my use, but Im releasing it here on vb.org for others to use as well (in exchange for links or donations of course!).

BUT - thats not to say that I wont take this stuff into consideration, its just I hadnt thought about it much pre-launch.

I will have a think about how it can be improved over the next few days and come up with a newer version mid next week. Any additional feedback you can give me in the meantime is highly valued, it all helps me to improve the product for me and for you!

thanks

MOGmartin

[MOGmartin]

Originally Posted by nekiw

do I have to add 1 keywrod each time? or can I easily add a bunch of keywords somehow at once?
I did try with space between keywords, and "," between, but nothing worked.
ps: you have any idea how I can change the color of the links in vbulletin ? since I dont want to use default

at the moment its one by one, I could arrange an import from csv though... I need to sort out any potential performance issues and other bugs first, but I will include that in the next week or two.

thanks

MOGmartin

[MOGmartin]

Originally Posted by MichelangeloITA

Works great! 5 stars! You rock man

well thank you! feel free to nomintate for MOTM as well

[Big-Pete]

Originally Posted by MOGmartin

Im on cloud hosting at rackspace and that can take a HUGE load

Sorry, A bit off topic, But im curious about cloud hosting, How does this work with VB? is it easy to integrate? I've got a amazon S3 account but it looks complicated to set up, so if Rackspace is easier i'll get an account there..