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

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Plugin: 2
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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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[Markos]

any updates for vb4.0.8 ??

[BirdOPrey5]

FYI: Chrome won't copy the hidden links, Internet Explorer does... haven't tried any other browsers.

[firattetik]

nice thanks

[Suiram]

Originally Posted by Neutral Singh

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

can you (or anyone) explain how you'd know that you get a linkback? i mean i assume what you're saying is that some thieving site (blog/forum i assume) copy/pasted some of your content and now when it displays on their site it has a link to your site - which means people can come to your site from the thieve's site via that article, and/or that google gives you better listing. but how do you know? from server logs? if yes, what do they look like? (screenshot plz). do you for example have a way of being able to go to the thieving site and pinpoint the post that has your stolen data?

[Manoel J?nior]

any updates for vb4.x ??

[CiyaEzIM]

any updates for vb4.x ??

[sweetguy2004]

where r d vb coders?? this is the reason ppl started shifting to IPB

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by sweetguy2004

where r d vb coders?? this is the reason ppl started shifting to IPB

Since it doesn't work in Chrome, and I'm assuming other browsers, I see no point wasting time to port this. Also there is a free service http://www.tynt.com/ that does basically the same thing.

[yahooooh]

still looking for fix
it is only related to this :

PHP Code:

    eval('$copyright_text .= "' . fetch_template('copyright') . '";'); 


it should be modified to work with vb4
any help

[Pardeep Bagga]

provide trhis mode for vb4