vBCloaker 0.1

This hack is a search engine cloaker, it will help you get ranked on search engines.



However, certain search engines have nice protection against cloakers and don't like em, like AlexanderT mentioned so well, so use this hack at your own risk.




I really hope you will appreciate it, this is my first real vBulletin hack ever. Also, I have a friend that won a VIP pass to E3, but he needs to buy a plane ticket which costs $600 and he doesn't have the money, so if you feel generous, a donation would be very nice.

Encouraging him is encouraging me.

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/websc...rency_code=USD


Also, there is one thing that is VERY important. When you add words

(fillers,targets,links,titles), use enter to seperate each entry. If you want a bunch of words altogether, seperate the words you want grouped together with spaces.




Features you can expect to see in next release (if this project is appreciated):

- User settable "max words" from admin panel
- Random font color
- Spiderbot logs
- Add random HTML tags



Click install if you install please


UPDATE

There seems to be a bug with editing spider strings from the user CP (vbulletin bug), you will have to edit the database manually

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....5&postcount=12


UPDATE #2

This post

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....6&postcount=30

[morrow]

Originally Posted by Cerb

Alexander, if I get more installs, I will release v0.2 which will be more secure.

For instance, you can tell the search engines not to cache your content, and also, I'll have vBCloaker to cloak from Spider IPs as an alternative feature (not user agents), this way, users that use simulated user agents wont be able to view cloaked content

Cerb,

You think you'll get back to me?

[morrow]

Well Cerb,

I'm not sure what the problem is, but it's been a while. I would recommend anybody concidering this hack to not bother until it's proven that it works. I'm not saying it doesn't work, there's just no proof that it does.

[Cerb]

Sorry guys I've been REALLY busy with school this week and can't read all posts now and morrow I still remember what you asked me and I promise to help you this week-end.

Thanks

[joeychgo]

Originally Posted by AlexanderT

Get caught (for instance by a competitor reporting to Google) and Google will ban you from its index.

Originally Posted by noppid

This is cloaking and is a violation of the SE ethics. It'll get ya banned faster then it will get you ranking.

Cheers.

Exactly. This is not something you want to do.

From Google:

The term "cloaking" is used to describe a website that returns altered webpages to search engines crawling the site. In other words, the webserver is programmed to return different content to Google than it returns to regular users, usually in an attempt to distort search engine rankings. This can mislead users about what they'll find when they click on a search result. To preserve the accuracy and quality of our search results, Google may permanently ban from our index any sites or site authors that engage in cloaking to distort their search rankings.

So, as you can see, doing this will dramatically harm your site. CONSIDER YOURSELF WARNED. If your interested in How to SEO VBulletin, then you might consider visiting our forum, VBulletin Webmaster. We frequently discuss such issues among other VB forum admin issues.

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[morrow]

Thanks, I will be checking your site out throughout the day. Thanks for the link.

Originally Posted by joeychgo

Exactly. This is not something you want to do.

From Google:

The term "cloaking" is used to describe a website that returns altered webpages to search engines crawling the site. In other words, the webserver is programmed to return different content to Google than it returns to regular users, usually in an attempt to distort search engine rankings. This can mislead users about what they'll find when they click on a search result. To preserve the accuracy and quality of our search results, Google may permanently ban from our index any sites or site authors that engage in cloaking to distort their search rankings.

So, as you can see, doing this will dramatically harm your site. CONSIDER YOURSELF WARNED. If your interested in How to SEO VBulletin, then you might consider visiting our forum, VBulletin Webmaster. We frequently discuss such issues among other VB forum admin issues.

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[noppid]

WOW! I can't believe I missed this!

There are at least 17 of you really screwing up! :/

[Deaths]

Haha, yes .

[morrow]

I've actually uninstalled it (albeit for the wrong reasons)...

Anyhow, I was just looking for something to get noticed a little better by google. Inktomi is on my site numerous times per day. I never see a google spider.

[Cerb]

Well, I just had some free time now so I fixed morrow's bug.

In functions.php, find

PHP Code:

if (substr_count(trim(strtolower($spideragents[$i])),strtolower($_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"])) > 0) // Spiderbot 


and replace by

PHP Code:

if (  strstr(strtolower($_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]),trim(strtolower($spideragents[$i])))  ) 


Now you will be able to see it works from SummitMedia's spider simulator.



Anyways, I will stop giving support since no one seems to like my hack. Sorry for this.

[AlexanderT]

Originally Posted by morrow

I've actually uninstalled it (albeit for the wrong reasons)...

Anyhow, I was just looking for something to get noticed a little better by google. Inktomi is on my site numerous times per day. I never see a google spider.

Google loves content. And so do your potential visitors