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Hidden Back Links - Let content thieves promote your site
Version: 1.00, by bjhuang bjhuang is offline
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Category: Show Thread Enhancements - Version: 3.8.0 Rating:
Released: 01-15-2009 Last Update: 01-16-2009 Installs: 130
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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 {
displaynone;


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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Old 01-17-2009, 11:13 AM
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Not 100% sure abt this mod but going to give it a try anyways as i have hidden links in my sites footer to specific threads on my site and it hasent hurt our SEO yet

Some thoughts:
Add options to turn this on/off on a Catogary/ Room basis ?
Add options to turn this on/off on a user group basis ?
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I have installed the new version and will let you know if this solves it.
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Will it add links to posts already in the database or only to new posts after installing the mod?
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Old 01-18-2009, 12:47 PM
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Originally Posted by glennybee View Post
How long do the posts need to be before it will add a link?

Will it add links to posts already in the database or only to new posts after installing the mod?

you could decide that in the options.

it add the links on the fly for new and old posts, and will not modify anything into database.
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Old 01-18-2009, 01:24 PM
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Is there a way to add just one link to the end of the post instead of after x amount of characters?

For example:
Code:
<a href="http://link of post">Source...</a>
So that the link looks genuine when it's copied and pasted somewhere else, instad of being stuck somewhere in the middle of the post and not looking right?

Or the anchor text could automatically become the title of the thread?

Maybe a possible option for future releases?

Thanks for the mod, useful but I think needs improved.
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Old 01-19-2009, 12:03 AM
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it reason why i don't put it at the end of posts is that the link is hidden in the original post, so there is a big probability it won't be selected for copying if it is the last few byte. and when it becomes visiable after pasted, the link is more likely be recognized and removed.

as for the second suggestion, the anchor text should be the link itself because most of the time the content will be copied as plain text intstead of html source code. if the anchor is the thread title, there will not be a back link after pasted.

but of course this is easy if you insist. open template "copyright" and find these two line
PHP Code:
$vboptions[bburl]/showthread.php?t=$thread[threadid]</a>
$vboptions[bburl]/showthread.php?p=$post[postid]</a
replace each with
PHP Code:
$thread[title]</a
try to simulate the action of copy&paste. you will see the tricks here.

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Originally Posted by glennybee View Post
Is there a way to add just one link to the end of the post instead of after x amount of characters?

For example:
Code:
<a href="http://link of post">Source...</a>
So that the link looks genuine when it's copied and pasted somewhere else, instad of being stuck somewhere in the middle of the post and not looking right?

Or the anchor text could automatically become the title of the thread?

Maybe a possible option for future releases?

Thanks for the mod, useful but I think needs improved.
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Old 01-22-2009, 01:04 AM
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uhm, interesting, but will wait to see what happens with this mod
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any screenshots ?
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i will wait for some time from other users experience..............
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老黄,干得不错哦
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