Remove "SEO by vBSEO 3.6.0" Link from forum footers

[Rik Brown]

I'm still using vbseo even though the company has gone out of business. However, at the bottom of each page on our forums is a broken link referring to their Crawability.com website which has been abandoned.

Does anyone know what file to edit to remove that link which takes one to that dead website?

Thanks. -- Rik

[RichieBoy67]

If you are still using Vbseo 3.6.0 do a search for Vbseo exploit and incorporate the code changes. 3.6 is very easily hackable.

I do not recall how that was set up but you can probably find it in the plug in manager or phrasing. I would check the plug ins first under Vbseo and template changes or something to that extent.

[ozzy47]

Tbh even though the company in no more, it is still not ethical to remove the branding.

[Max Taxable]

Ethical to edit the branding though, removing only the dead link right?

[ozzy47]

Yeah that I would do.

[Thangvip9x]

Go to this directory vbseo/includes and open functions_vbseo.php
Find

PHP Code:

global $VBSEO_REWRITE_TEXTURLS; 
if(!$VBSEO_REWRITE_TEXTURLS) 
$VBSEO_SHOW_COPYRIGHT = ( 


Replace with

PHP Code:

global $VBSEO_REWRITE_TEXTURLS; 
if(!$VBSEO_REWRITE_TEXTURLS) 
$VBSEO_BRANDING_FREE = ( 


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[cellarius]

But note: The above is a clear breach of the license agreement. Even if the company is out of business, the rights to the software are still owned by its creators, and if they would choose to collect some easy money, you're making yourself an easy target.

[ozzy47]

Correct, you need to find the code that has the link, and unlink it, not remove the code by faking branding free.

[Rik Brown]

Thank you for all the suggestions.

[RichieBoy67]

I guess we would have to look at their contract because there is also a chance they could have breached the contract as well. At the very least I would pull a broken link.