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May 8, 2008

vBulletin needs to tackle Private Message Spam

Posted by Sarah King in Technical Discussions

Thanks to the Black Hat community not keeping a lid on their activities I’ve been made aware of a spamming system targetted at the DigitalPoint forums. It can, however, be used on any vBulletin forum - I would assume. Some have implemented different rules around when you can send a private message, and some might even have captcha - but it’s all circumventable. More »

December 19, 2006

Getcha forum running…

Posted by Sarah King in Technical Discussions

Some points from a discussion on setting up a new forum.

The steps to take to get started and make it successful: More »

July 4, 2006

vBulletin and Spammers

Posted by Sarah King in Technical Discussions

I’m a moderator on a few forums, one phpBB and the rest are vBulletin. One was a surprise - I hadn’t realised until I started getting reported posts

Personally I find the vBulletin forums better to moderate than phpBB but it’s a relatively close call - until you start banning people and looking for cheats. Then vBulletin comes into it’s own. More »

March 6, 2006

vBulletin’s inbuilt RSS feeds

Posted by Sarah King in PHP & Web Development

A great many vBulletin forum owners appear to be unaware that their forums can provide an RSS feed “out of the box”.

This is a great shame because it limits the forums ability to grow and have visibility.

Now the naysayers will say one of two things

1. I don’t want people stealing my content
2. I want people to visit the forum and if they use feeds they might not (usually because of ad revenue)

The reality is that there are a great many forums out there all competing for the same users and you need to use every competitive advantage there is. In vBulletin it’s things like allowing users to subscribe to daily digests of posts to a forum. Pretty much the same thing result as an RSS feed but it’s turned on by default and forum owners don’t proactively turn it off.

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January 9, 2006

Top 100 vBulletin Forums

Posted by Sarah King in Search Engine Optimisation

On a whim I decided to purchase the domain Top 100 vBulletin and put a wsnlinks directory on the site to rank vBulletin forums.

The only requirement is that External Data is turned on giving me access to external.php.

I’m then ranking the forums based on

• Number of threads
• Ratings by visitors to the directory
• Google’s PR

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July 22, 2005

PropertyTalk

Posted by Sarah King in Portfolio

PropertyTalk.com is the new site for property investors and the big brother of PropertyTalk.co.nz.

The site is driven by Mambo with an vBulletin forum and phpAdsNew ad server.

The design was done by Dave Relly from Energise.

There were a number of technical issues but as usual, Mambo managed the bulk of the tasks with ease.

May 26, 2005

Asset Magazine

Posted by Sarah King in Portfolio

This is a new site I’ve just set up for GoodReturns. More »