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.

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by Alibass

Does your program work with wild cards? If not you know google has a wad of serach engine like google.it, google.uk, google.nl etc. Adding just google.com doesn't stop them all, you half to add each individual one.

Another for instance, yesterday I had four refbacks to approve for the same website and thread. I tick yes to one and left the other three to leave and all four where approved and added to the bottom of my forum. What's up with that? Seems to me only the one should have been approved and the the other three left.

I'm going to look into that bug this weekend if I get a chance. Regarding wildcards, it would be very easy to add. At the moment, it just searches for the URL for that string, so if you want to filter out all google domains, use "google." in the blacklist. Unfortunately if you have a url that also happens to contain the string google. it'll block that too. I'll consider possibly blocking search engine refbacks in a different way i.e. regex's hardcoded somewhere: google\.(it|com) etc...

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by dj_f16

know....blacklist long reaches if I affect linkler other..
You shorten does it not have a road?

Sorry I don't understand

[Dave-M]

Originally Posted by Dean C

Link to one of your threads here, then click on it. You should get a refback in your admincp

Here is a thread from the forums.

Aha, the moderate linkbacks has appeared, and that wasnt there before, now I have a bazillion to moderate

Thanks for the help!

[Dave-M]

Ok, I went through the linkbacks that needed moderating, and chose the ones I wanted, but they all showed up on the page.

Is there any way to prune them once they are approved?

Thanks

[dj_f16]

i understand ı know it
there is a long links except black list
there isnt a way to solve thıs problem

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by Dave-M

Ok, I went through the linkbacks that needed moderating, and chose the ones I wanted, but they all showed up on the page.

Is there any way to prune them once they are approved?

Thanks

The odd thing about this, is I can't replicate the bug locally. Can those who are experiencing this bug post up what version of PHP you are using, and also the vBulletin version

And at the moment, there is no way to delete refbacks once they are approved. That's coming soon

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by dj_f16

i understand ı know it
there is a long links except black list
there isnt a way to solve thıs problem

Sorry, I still don't understand what you are saying.

[dj_f16]

u do not understand the nay....

me say ;

which blacklist does not become URLs long.........

solve the long URLs problem do you not know?
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Beyler Biri Çevirsin Şuna... Karalistede Olmayan Linklerde Uzun.. Çıkan Tüm Linklerimi Kara Listeye Ekleyelim.. Mantıksız... Yokmu Bu Uzun Linkleri Kısaltmanın Yolu????? Bunu Derseniz Sevinirim...

[Dean C]

If someone who speaks Turkish could better translate dj_f16's post for me, I'd appreciate it

[Alibass]

Originally Posted by Dean C

The odd thing about this, is I can't replicate the bug locally. Can those who are experiencing this bug post up what version of PHP you are using, and also the vBulletin version

vB 3.6.8

PHP 4.4.4