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AutoLinker - vBulletin auto links Home Page
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AutoLinker
is the new highly configurable keyword linking system designed specifically for vBulletin forums and content management systems. It works with the new version 4, vBulletin 3.7 onwards, and the new vBulletin Publishing Suite.
AutoLinker allows web administrators to configure particular words or phrases as being key words which will then be automatically hyperlinked anywhere on the forum or in the content management system whenever those keywords are used in any message or article by any forum member.
And you're not just limited to square popup windows filled with text. You can create balloon-style popups, or - if you know a bit of basic HTML - create cool effects like this, or maybe a pretty picture.
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AutoLinker is highly configurable.
There is a huge variety of choices for each aspect of your AutoLinks allowing you endless possibilities to create a unique look for your website.
If you feel that there is some other way in which you would like to configure your AutoLinks, then let us know. We can probably supply you with what you want.
Here are the definitions of some of the terms used in the AutoLinker set-up process.
AutoLink Creation Page - This is where you design your templates or create your AutoLinks or make any changes. It is very simple and familiar.
Normally you would access this page by selecting "Add link" in the AutoLinker Admin Console.
Category - If you have a lot of AutoLinks then you may want to categorise them for your own ease of access. You don't have to setup categories at all. But you might want to store some AutoLinks as information links or advertising links, links to external documents or links to internal documents. It is up to you. If you have setup some categories then you can assign AutoLinks to any category at any time and change it later if you want.
Display template - this controls the style of the link (underlined, colour etc) as well as any icon shown next to the link. (There are so far about 25 link icons.) How do you want the AutoLink to look? You can decide that an AutoLink is indicated by keywords in bold, or bold italics, or in red or blue or some other colour. You can also configure your AutoLInks as popups which contain information or even images - or you can configure the AutoLInk as a hyperlink. You can even decide that an AutoLink will be both a hyperlink and a popup.
You can prepare and save your own custom-made link templates for future use. You can keep a library of the templates you have designed - even if you are not presently using them. You can then use them for particular AutoLink categories which you later set up.
Your AutoLink templates will be stored in their own directory on your server so that they will not be affected by future AutoLink upgrades or vBulletin upgrades.
Keywords - these are the triggers for your AutoLink. List the words or phrases you want to be AutoLinked separated by a comma. You can add to or alter the keywords at any time.
Popup This is the square box which appears when the mouse pointer is hovered over the AutoLink. You can change the border and background colours of the popup box. You can decide to give the box a shadow so that it has a semi-3D effect.
You can also configure the way that the popup box behaves in relation to the mouse-pointer actions.
You can make the popup appear only while the mouse-pointer is over the AutoLink. You can make the popup box sticky - meaning that it will only disappear when the mouse is clicked again. You can tell the popup box to follow the mouse around the screen.
Instead of a popup box you can configure the popup as a balloon containing just one or two lines of text.
Using all of these combinations of colours and effects you can design an individual look and feel which suits the needs of your website.
Mouseover action:- You can trigger the AutoLink merely by hovering your mouse of the keyword, by clicking the keyword or by clicking and holding your mouse button down.
href action:- You can configure the behaviour of each AutoLink in many ways. You can configure it merely as a hyperlink which takes your reader to an advertisement or to another part of your website. You can configure the AutoLink to produce a balloon pop-up - square or rounded. You might normally use this with a mouse hover to display a short explanatory one-liner.
You could configure the AutoLink to produce a full pop-up box containing several lines of text in any colour or font on any background. Pop-ups can contain links or graphics.
Sticky (popup remains on mouse-out):- You can design the template so that the balloon or pop-up is displayed until clicked or for a predetermined length of time. It's up to you.
Add nofollow to link?:- And of course, where the your keywords are configured as a hyperlink or where your pop-up contains a hyperlink, you can flag it as follow or nofollow. That way you can be sure that you keep the search engine spiders within your site where your hyperlinks go externally, but let them roam around when your links are internal.
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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has been described as a dark art. It's you against the Search Engine spiders - or Bots. And the rest of the Internet as well, who are all competing to be noticed by the Websurfing World by attracting the attention of the search engine providers.
Hyperlinks are the basic currency of search engine rankings, so it’s important that you understand how to code them correctly.
Building good quality SEO hyperlinks
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How can I use AutoLinker?
Advertising
you can designate particular keywords to produce a pop-up box containing details of products or services which you want to sell. You can also include links or Hypertexted images which will take your readers directly to your partners or trading associates and which will then you revenue in the event of a sale.
Explanations and definitions -- your dynamic glossary
especially if you have a large website, you may well find that you and your moderating team are very busy having to answer the same question again and again. You can configure particular words as keywords which either produce a short hover text or a full pop-up box containing an explanation or definition of the words or key-phrases which your reader is looking at.
using Autolinker in this way produces huge savings in Web administrator time and produces a high level of satisfaction for website visitors as the answers they are seeking are frequently provided instantly, without having to look around -- and without having to wait for your site team to find their questions and to reply to it.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An AutoLink
is a hyperlink added automatically to a hypermedia document, after it has been authored or published. Segments of the hypermedia are identified through a process of pattern matching. For example in hypertext, the software could recognise textual patterns for street addresses, phone numbers, ISBNs, or URLs.
In a distributed hypermedia system, such as the World Wide Web, autolinking can be carried out by client or server software. For example, a web server could add links to a web page as it sends it to a web browser. A browser can also add links to a page after it has received it from the server.
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Have you got a new vBulletin website? You can place your link on the AutoLinker.com website.
If you use a full version of AutoLinker on your vBulletin website we will be happy to carry your link together with a short description of your site. Also, we will produce an AutoLinker keyword template in any style you wish so that if any one discusses your site on AutoLinker.com, you will have your own customised pop-up and hyperlink to your vBulletin forum. The keyword template will be configured to produce one occurrence of your personal AutoLink per post.
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Hyperlink
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In computing, a hyperlink (or link) is a reference to a document that the reader can directly follow, or that is followed automatically. The reference points to a whole document or to a specific element within a document. Hypertext is text with hyperlinks. Such text is usually viewed with a computer. A software system for viewing and creating hypertext is a hypertext system. To hyperlink (or simply to link) is to create a hyperlink.
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The anchor text, link label or link title is the visible, clickable text in a hyperlink. The words contained in the anchor text can determine the ranking that the page will receive by search engines. Since 1998, some web browsers have added the ability to show a tooltip for a hyperlink before it is selected. Not all links have anchor texts because it may be obvious where the link will lead due to the context in which it is used. Anchor texts normally remain below 60 characters. Different browsers will display anchor texts differently.
Contents
* 1 Overview
* 2 Common misunderstanding of the concept
* 3 Search engine algorithms
* 4 References
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Index term
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An index term, subject term, subject heading, or descriptor, in information retrieval, is a term that captures the essence of the topic of a document. Index terms make up a controlled vocabulary for use in bibliographic records. They are an integral part of bibliographic control, which is the function by which libraries collect, organize and disseminate documents. They are used as keywords to retrieve documents in an information system, for instance, a catalog or a search engine. A popular form of keywords on the web are tags which are directly visible and can be assigned by non-experts also. Index terms can consist of a word, phrase, or alphanumerical term. They are created by analyzing the document either manually with subject indexing or automatically with automatic indexing or more sophisticated methods of keyword extraction. Index terms can either come from a controlled vocabulary or be freely assigned. ...
We realise that you may already been using an automatic autolinking system on you vBulletin website. Although you would like to start using a fully featured up-to-date system like AutoLinker, you don't look forward to having to spend time in your admin console converting all of your existing links.
Don't worry. This is not a problem. The standard AutoLink installation package comes bundled with a small routine which will do the conversion for you. The most popular vBulletin linker at the moment is the Geek Auto Linker.
Once AutoLinker is installed on your server, to the AutoLinker settings screen from your AutoLinker admin console. One click and your previous links will be converted in the blinking of an eye - including the title, keywords, hyperlink target etc.
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