Autolinking set keywords, guranteed to make money for all vB owners. Read This!

[vadimr]

Ok here is my idea, It's not like I woke up one day and said this must be done but instead I seen all kinds of different ways this was done and I decided this would be a great hack for vB. I even suggested this to vB staff and they said will consider it for future releases of vB3. I only ask one thing if you do intend to write this hack please give me credit for the idea.

I know most of you vB owners have some advertisers or affiliates. I'm also pretty sure that you lose potential referals because the users do not click through your site. How would you like this to be done automatically and pulled from the database? Read on.

You all know how the bad word filter works, it checks to see if the word is in the bad word list and then replaces the word with "xxxx".

How about this. You will have keywords and URLs for them. So for example:
the word google has a URL set in your DB for www.google.com and each time someone posts any message containing the word google, the word is automatically linked to www.google.com.

Now I'm not proposing that just www. and .com is added to certain words but rather an actual table that will contain the URL and the keyword, so for example if instead of linking the word google to www.google.com you decided that anytime someone posts google you will link it to toolbar.google.com.

Thus allowing you to have keywords and your speacial affiliate links for them.
This will probably imporove your vB functionality and give you some extra cashflow.

Think about it. You can even use the included php replace command or use the bad language filter. If I had better idea how vB is coded I would write this myself.

Thank you,
- Vadim