Miscellaneous Hacks - DCSEO Linkbacks (Refbacks implementation)

Introduction

Dear Friends,

After much thought I have decided to release part of my upcoming DCSEO modification to the community for free.

What does this modification do?

This modification offers you the facility to track URLs that link to threads on your forum. Instead of me trying to explain to you what a linkback actually is I'll link you to wikipedia's explanation of it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linkback

This modification implements refbacks, but not trackbacks or pingbacks (these will be included in the DCSEO modification). Any sites that the system *thinks* link to you, are put into an approval queue in the admincp which you will see in the left-hand nav after you install the mod. This moderation queue can be turned off, but I would strongly reccomend never turning it off!

The reason this will offer you a major benefit to your search engine rankings and PR (for google), is that it will create relevant inbound and outbound traffic to your forum which the search engines love.

Installation

Download the attached zip and open the readme.txt file, and follow the instructions within it.

Support

I will be around to offer support wherever possible, but please do not PM me asking for support, as I will not respond. If you have any bugs, report them in this thread and I'll fix them as soon as possible. I am rather busy at the moment with work during the day, and full-time development of the DCSEO product in the evenings, so please be patient with me if I take a little while responding to your posts.

[Alibass]

Can someone tell me where the linkback file is located so I can edit and delete what links I need to? Any help or info would greatly be appreciated.

[Wachtmeister]

Nice add-on Installed and working...

[Wachtmeister]

Originally Posted by Slave

Here you go ..

After having a look in the db I can see why there is more than one entry coming into the mod queue .. however that isn't explaining the extra empty rows in the linkback table at the bottom of the page ..

Perhaps it's getting confused due to the similarity of the URL?

Originally Posted by Wachtmeister

Nice add-on Installed and working...

Hmm, not working I cannot see a moderation queue in my admin-cp.

What can i do to view the refback list? Test2

EDIT: Ok, now i have a "Moderate Linkbacks" But no Refback from this thread.... Test3 ... ok, got it Great work! Really

[ForosAbiertos]

At install i have this error

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.8:

Invalid SQL:
CREATE TABLE linkback (
`linkbackid` smallint(6) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
`pageurl` varchar(250) collate latin1_general_ci NOT NULL,
`pagetitle` varchar(250) collate latin1_general_ci NOT NULL,
`approved` tinyint(1) NOT NULL default '0',
`type` tinyint(1) unsigned NOT NULL,
`dateline` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL,
`threadid` smallint(6) unsigned NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`linkbackid`),
KEY `threadid` (`threadid`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM;

MySQL Error : Table 'linkback' already exists
Error Number : 1050
Date : Tuesday, October 2nd 2007 @ 01:05:09 PM
Script : http://forosabiertos.com/admin/plugi...=productimport
Referrer : http://forosabiertos.com/admin/plugin.php?do=productadd
IP Address : *****
Username : ***
Classname : vB_Database

some help please

[Dave-M]

I have a question.

I have installed as per the instructions, and I can see it in my admincp, but I dont see anything on the forums.

I know that there are quite a lot of links to my forums, so I was wondering if this is because I'm using a custom skin?

My forum can be found here.

Thanks

[tanand79]

I had installed this in my board but i dont see what u had shown in the screenshots..

www.desibbrg.com is my board.
Pls advise what i should do... I also did the template edits in the showthread....

[Alibass]

Apparently there is a bug with 1.2 version. Say you get 4-5 linkbacks and you only want to approve one. You tick yes to the one and the others are left ticked to leave, it doesn't matter it still approves all links and post them in the threads including search engine links. Are you aware of this and are you working on a fix?

I ask several days ago where you can edit and delete the links and still no reply. This hack is supported isn't it?

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by Alibass

@Dean

Your hack is working great, but have a question. I was approving and disapproving refbacks this morning and one of the search engine got approved. How do you delete those from being displayed at bottom of forum?

I'll be adding that feature for admins soon

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by ForosAbiertos

At install i have this error


some help please

Have you installed Zoints SEO before?

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by Dave-M

I have a question.

I have installed as per the instructions, and I can see it in my admincp, but I dont see anything on the forums.

I know that there are quite a lot of links to my forums, so I was wondering if this is because I'm using a custom skin?

My forum can be found here.

Thanks

It shouldn't be. Have you approved any links thus far?