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

Product: 1
Plugin: 2
Query: 0

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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[Xexiu]

Doesnt work for me .

[YankForum]

Originally Posted by Xexiu

Doesnt work for me .

your vb version and link to a sample thread ?

[ChiNa]

Not working on vBulletin 3.8.6, When I copy my own post or threads, it wont show any link from my website or forum! I did also set the 800 character to 10, and the 2000 to 20, STILL NOT WORKING! Can anyone suggest how to make it work for Higher vB versions,, Thank u

[Simon Lloyd]

It depends on which browser you copied it from, it works fine but only with certain browsers.

[isatice]

dont use display:none , use same color as background instead

[ChiNa]

Well I used firefox, oko guys, I am back I used the RED color, and then I could see it. For me it works on Internet Explorer 9 and Chrome...... Cant be seen in Firefox. But anyways amazing mod..

Thanks guys.

[Naijasite]

I installed but notice two errors:

1. 原帖地址: naijafinder | nigeria forum http://www.naijafinder.com/showthread.php?t=24112

2. Warning: fetch_template() calls should be replaced by the vB_Template class. Template name: copyright in [path]/includes/functions.php on line 4734


Please help. I installed on 4.2.0

[BirdOPrey5]

This is a mod for VB 3.8.x it will not work on VB 4.x.x.

See my earlier post: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....6&postcount=88

[Naijasite]

Thanks for the feedback, i have tynt installed already.
But i notice some website are scrapper my content with Rss.
I just want to use this to enable my link to be on the thread that was scrape by RSS.

www.tynt.com works perfectly well, but when someone copies your content with RSS the tynt link dosen't appear on your content on the thieves website.

Any Idea?

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

This is a mod for VB 3.8.x it will not work on VB 4.x.x.

See my earlier post: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....6&postcount=88

[BirdOPrey5]

no. But I know this mod won't work at all on 4.x and even on 3.8 it doesn't work in Chrome and maybe Safari.