This is an adaptaion of this code found for VB4 for adding social bookmarks to VB blog on VB3.8 forums

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showp...0&postcount=16

Go to blog_show_entry

Find

PHP Code:

<if condition="$bookmarksites">
   <div style="float:$stylevar[right]">$bookmarksites</div>
  </if> 


Direcly above add

PHP Code:

<!-- / social media button --> 
<br /> 
<a class="a2a_dd" href="http://www.addtoany.com/share_save"><img src="http://static.addtoany.com/buttons/share_save_171_16.png" width="171" height="16" border="0" alt="Share/Bookmark"/></a><script type="text/javascript">a2a_show_title=1;a2a_num_services=14;</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.addtoany.com/menu/page.js"></script> 
<br /> 
<br /> 
<!-- / social media button --> 


This can be seen working on my blogs
http://www.thespainforum.com/blogs/

Original code taken from a VB4 hack found on the following
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showt...manager&page=5

This will add a new button below the post reply button for your members to submit threads to any social networking site like facebook, Twitter, digg...any of them!

Find in SHOWTHREAD

PHP Code:

<!-- / controls above postbits --> 


Add below

PHP Code:

<!-- / social media button -->
<br />
<a class="a2a_dd" href="http://www.addtoany.com/share_save"><img src="http://static.addtoany.com/buttons/share_save_171_16.png" width="171" height="16" border="0" alt="Share/Bookmark"/></a><script type="text/javascript">a2a_show_title=1;a2a_num_services=14;</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.addtoany.com/menu/page.js"></script>
<br />
<br />
<!-- / social media button --> 


This can be seen and tested at my forum
http://www.thespainforum.com/

Cuil Bot also known as Twiceler bot, can bleed your server resources.
The likes of google has a simple user interface to slow it down via google webmasters, Cuil Bot also known as Twiceler bot, you dont have that pleasure.

This one single search engine is a menace on eating resources and bringing servers to their knees

Having found my DDS at almost a standstill, with dire page loads times, I had to investigate and found Cuil Bot also known as Twiceler bot, hitting my forums on average about five times a second, with fifteen of their bots all doing the same

Two simple ways to do it

Robots txt file. Add the following.
This can take seven days to take effect

PHP Code:

User-agent: twiceler
Disallow: / 


Or, an all out ban on the ipīs it uses, via htaccess.
Instant and effective banning of the search bots
The list of ipīs used below, are the present list they use, taken from their website

Just add the following code to your htaccess file to ban all Cuil Bot also known as Twiceler bot

PHP Code:

order allow,deny
deny from 67.218.116.130 
deny from 216.129.119.10 
deny from 216.129.119.40 
deny from 67.218.116.131 
deny from 216.129.119.11 
deny from 216.129.119.41 
deny from 67.218.116.132 
deny from 216.129.119.12 
deny from 216.129.119.42 
deny from 67.218.116.133 
deny from 216.129.119.13 
deny from 216.129.119.43 
deny from 67.218.116.134 
deny from 216.129.119.14 
deny from 216.129.119.44 
deny from 216.129.119.15 
deny from 216.129.119.45 
deny from 67.218.116.162 
deny from 216.129.119.16 
deny from 216.129.119.46 
deny from 67.218.116.163 
deny from 216.129.119.17 
deny from 216.129.119.47 
deny from 67.218.116.164 
deny from 216.129.119.18 
deny from 216.129.119.48 
deny from 67.218.116.165 
deny from 216.129.119.19 
deny from 216.129.119.49 
deny from 67.218.116.166  
deny from 216.129.119.50 
deny from 216.129.119.51 
deny from 216.129.119.81
allow from all 


My forums The Spain Forums where i use the above code to great effect

Well all know having anchor words on incoming links to your forum helps with SEO.

One of the big downfalls IMO is the link to us page on the VBA links directory. By default you can only add banners.

Banners will add a nice image, plus a link. But I like many others do not do images of any great standard, plus search engines can not read any text displayed on the image.

To gain maximum returns from your link to us page, its far better to give the HTML code and description of your forum for others to place on their websites.

Well placed keywords on high ranking pages means better ranking for those words.

There is a very simple solution to this, which takes very little time to implement, I will even give you the code to do it and alter to your own needs.

First off go into your admin cp and go to the ADV_LINKS_LINKTOUS template

Find

PHP Code:

$header
$navbar
$linksnav 


Next alter the code below to your own needs and add it below the above. The code is almost the same as I use on my own forum.

PHP Code:

<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" class="tborder" width="100%">
<thead>
   <tr>
    <td class="tcat" colspan="2">Link To Us</td>
   </tr>
  </thead>
<tbody>
   <tr>
    <td align="center" class="panelsurround">
<div class="panel">

<B>To place a link in our free link exchange directory,</B> first you need to place a link back to us. <br /><br />
Please place the following code on your website.<br /><br />
&lt;a href="http://www  your url here.com/"&gt; <<<<<Your Forum Description here>>> &lt;/a&gt;<br /><br />
<B>You do not have to be a member of our forums to exchange links with us.</B><BR /><BR />
Simply add the above code to your web site then proceed to the next step.<BR /><BR />
All links submitted to our free Spain links directory by non members are moderated, but they are quickly approved.<BR /><BR />
</td>
</div>
   </tr>
  </tbody> 


You can give people more choices of the code they use to link back to you, giving even more keywords and phrases you rank better for.

You can see an example of the above code in place on my own link to us page.
http://www.thespainforum.com/links/misc.php?do=linktous

It still needs some work, with adding a few more options of descriptions people can use.

Notice I dont require people to register to exchange links. Why force people to join, if all they will do is register, place a link and never get seen again.

At this stage, I would also like to thank Micheal for the help with some of the code used above
http://www.vbseo.com/f46/coding-help-please-31964/

If you found any of the above any use, bung us a link, go on, you know you want to :D