Show Thread Enhancements - Hidden Back Links - Let content thieves promote your site

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What does it do

It inserts some hidden links (back to your forum) into the content of long posts. If someone steals your content, copy & paste a post to other places, there will be at least a link back to the original URL of your site. Good for SEO too.

Since you can't stop content thieves anyway, why not take some advantages?

Install

Step 1: import product-copyright.xml
Step 2: add this to the main css->additional css definition

PHP Code:

.copyright {
display: none;
} 


Advanced
* for SEO purpose, there is an option to choose links back to a thread or a post.
* the back links will become visiable after copy&paste. if you like them to stay hidden, just open and modify template "copyright"

Find

PHP Code:

<span class="copyright"> 


Replace

PHP Code:

<span class="copyright" style="display: none;"> 


i do not recommend to do this cause this may be bad for SEO.

Sounds stupid?

Yes, stupid enough. It is so easy to remove the back links. But from my experience, thieves are busy, blind, or more stupider. Most of them won't remove the links. You can't image how many back links i got this way.

You could modify the phrase "copyright_source" to some unique string. And google for it.


Will it hurt my SEO?

I can't promise that. but I think it does more good than evil. You could give your opinions here.




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[DieselMinded]

/me uninstalls cant not duplicate the way this works everytime

[Sycoloco1212]

Tested Mod

[Neutral Singh]

Amazing Hack!! this works!! i have gotten more than 100 backlinks owning to this beauty!!

[Harley D]

Originally Posted by morrow

I just installed with no problems. I ran a test and it made me laugh (in a good way). I know there are some people out there who do this.

Here are a few issues that may or may not be good.

First, When you cut and paste into another thread, the entire code is right there in plain site. I'm sure people who are cutting and pasting will not miss this and edit it out immediately, unless they are just that stupid, blind, or cracked up.

Second, for some reason the copyright is being torn up. Example:

原帖地址: North Eastern Forums

Wuz up wit dat.

Same here!

原帖地址: LaserEnthusiast.com

?????

[Harley D]

To fix this,
Go to PHRASE MANAGER
SEARCH IN PHRASES

search for

?ŽŸ??–?œ???€

Change it to

Copyright

or whatever you want it to read.

[The Smoking Gun]

If it works as intended....excellent...will mark as soon as installed...millions of things to do!

TSG!

[carmichael1973]

Excellent work my friend!!! INSTALLED

[Simon Lloyd]

looks ok on the face of it as its simply a phrase (link) thats added to the post, however it's easily defeated if its pasted in to microsoft word before pasting to anywhere else, the link doesn't appear.

[paul41598]

I dont get how this mod works... copying and pasting text from a post does nothign for me

[l_amhed]

Hi !

This mod is quite interesting but is there a way to restict it to work only in some forums/categories ?
For instance, I have a trade forum with very long items lists but it doesn't matter (more over some members will found this quite upsetting, having back links to the forum in their trading list) if there're no link back when the copy/paste their list.

Thanks.