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.




The most famous travel forum in chinese world - www.bbkz.com

[RaceJunkie]

Originally Posted by GreasySpoon

This hack will hurt your SEO because Google don't like hidden text/links. You have been warned

That's what I thought and wanted to see if there is a way to do just text.

[RaceJunkie]

Looks like this will work if you only want text which is all I am looking.

Replace the copyright template with

<br/><span class="copyright">$vbphrase[copyright_source]: $vboptions[bbtitle] <if condition="$vboptions[copyright_linkthread]"></if></span>

I have mine set to link thread in the options and I get the following text when I c/p

Copyright ? Local Race Chat.com: Local Race Chat

[GreasySpoon]

A good content thieve would filter all the unnecessary stuff out like the copyright. He would create a parser for every site that he scrape to get only the content, that he need.

[RaceJunkie]

Originally Posted by GreasySpoon

A good content thieve would filter all the unnecessary stuff out like the copyright. He would create a parser for every site that he scrape to get only the content, that he need.

I have some that are just too lazy

[morrow]

I just installed with no problems. I ran a test and it made me laugh (in a good way). I know there are some people out there who do this.

Here are a few issues that may or may not be good.

First, When you cut and paste into another thread, the entire code is right there in plain site. I'm sure people who are cutting and pasting will not miss this and edit it out immediately, unless they are just that stupid, blind, or cracked up.

Second, for some reason the copyright is being torn up. Example:

原帖地址: North Eastern Forums

Wuz up wit dat.

[bjhuang]

i've got 600+ stolen posts (which means 600+ backlinks) since i released this mod. and my traffic from google goes up 24%. but of course this can not be a 100% proof to tell if this mod help or hurt your SERP.

i set it only insert copyright into posts with 500+ words. god knows how many more shorter posts get stolen. but i am sure there are a lot of lazy content thieve who can not identify and filter out the copyright text although it's so obvious.

[alsultan88]

thnxxxxxx
very good
but the advanced edit is not work
i need to hide the copyright on the other site
thnx

[alsultan88]

how can i edit the Font size or color that the link and copyright appear in the other site (after copy & paste )
?????????
thnx

[Alfa1]

it would be much better to have a hyperlinked dot show up in the post.

[DieselMinded]

There is no rhyme or reason for when this decides to add the copyright line very aggravating !