Version: 0.1, by Cerb
Developer Last Online: Jan 2008
Version: 3.0.7
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Released: 03-24-2005
Last Update: 03-25-2005
Installs: 16
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No support by the author.
This hack is a search engine cloaker, it will help you get ranked on search engines.
However, certain search engines have nice protection against cloakers and don't like em, like AlexanderT mentioned so well, so use this hack at your own risk.
I really hope you will appreciate it, this is my first real vBulletin hack ever. Also, I have a friend that won a VIP pass to E3, but he needs to buy a plane ticket which costs $600 and he doesn't have the money, so if you feel generous, a donation would be very nice.
Also, there is one thing that is VERY important. When you add words
(fillers,targets,links,titles), use enter to seperate each entry. If you want a bunch of words altogether, seperate the words you want grouped together with spaces.
Features you can expect to see in next release (if this project is appreciated):
- User settable "max words" from admin panel
- Random font color
- Spiderbot logs
- Add random HTML tags
Click install if you install please
UPDATE
There seems to be a bug with editing spider strings from the user CP (vbulletin bug), you will have to edit the database manually
for ($x=0;$x < sizeof($dontcloak);$x++)
{
if ( substr_count(trim($dontcloak[$x]),$_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]) > 0)
{
return false;
}
}
now notice the line $dontcloak = array("googlebot","slurp");
googlebot is google's web crawler and slurp is yahoo's
you can add more, for instance: $dontcloak = array("googlebot","slurp","lycos");
You can include parts of the user agent also, for instance you could just put google instead of googlebot.
#37, read my post on the first two pages about SummitMedia spider simulator
#39: Targets are words that will link to other pages.
Titles are words that will be embraced with <h3> HTML tags
Fillers are remaining words that will fill the page
I know google and yahoo got their policies on this, however MSN Web Search doesn't. You can get top ranked easily with a cloaker on MSN.
Where did you come up with that??
Cloaking, i.e. spammy doorways, is as forbidden at MSN as it is for the other two. From MSN:
Quote:
Items and techniques discouraged by MSN Search
The following items and techniques are not appropriate uses of the index. Use of these items and techniques may affect how your site is ranked within MSN Search and may result in the removal of your site from the MSN Search index.
...
- Using hidden text or links. You should use only text and links that are visible to users.
...
Read this for a real-life example of getting banned from search engine, MSN included.
Add "summit" to your Spider identification strings (for this test)
Activate the Cloaker and everything
Use a spider simulator such as: http://tools.summitmedia.co.uk/spider/ and have it access your forums, it should display a cloaked page's source
"the best thing to do is to redirect the search engine to the /archive/ directory, so the crawler visit the text version of the site, and nothing else"
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03-27-2005, 08:15 AM
