New members that signature and SEO spam
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Topic: New members that signature and SEO spam
Posted By: slappyJ
Subject: New members that signature and SEO spam
Date Posted: 09 June 2010 at 5:03pm
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My forum has an increasing number of new users that use SEO spam links in their signatures. I have seen other forum software that gives the administrator the option of setting a predetermined number of posts before a user can begin using a signature. Like I said, my forum has new users every single day that will register and make only one post with SEO spamming in their signatures. I am getting tired of the admin responsibilities with these types of users.  Is the new version of web wiz forums going to address this problem? |
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 10 June 2010 at 8:26am
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This has already been developed for version 10. It will be set at group level, so you can have it so members of the starting group, or any other group can not post links and/or images within forums or blogs. Hyperlinks and images links would be replaced with text. You will also be able to disable signatures at group level as well, so that signatures of members would not be displayed while they were in that group. In the meantime you can edit the includes/setup_options_inc.asp file and set it so that any links in your forum have the nofollow tag added to them, making them useless for SEO purposes. This will also be able to be set in version 10 from the admin area instead in a new SEO page that will include meta tag setup. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: andyb323
Date Posted: 10 June 2010 at 9:18am
| Do you guys have a date when version 10 will be released? |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 10 June 2010 at 10:03am
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The main new features are almost complete so hope to have a beta release very soon.
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Posted By: slappyJ
Date Posted: 22 June 2010 at 5:43pm
| This new feature should also address the same new users that put links into the body of their posts. It's just the same as putting links into their signatures and there should also be a way to prevent this. |
Posted By: 123Simples
Date Posted: 22 June 2010 at 7:33pm
I think Bruce did include this feature but he will be best to answer ------------- http://www.123simples.com/" rel="nofollow - Visit 123 Simples Web Design |
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