NEW UPDATE : Forumotion Traffic exchange!

First topic message reminder :

Dear users and members,

To improve the ranking and the audience of your forum, we inform you that we have now added a new feature entitled "Traffic exchange" which remains in Beta.

This new option will allow you to share traffic and visitors, with forums in the same category as your forum topics and have similar or close subjects to yours.
It will appear at the end of each subject in the form of a block of links related to the selected subject.

To increase the number of visitors and thus the general audience of your forum, you should turn on option traffic exchange in your admin panel>> General>> Forum promotion >> Traffic exchange.

You can of course deactivate it when you want.

See you soon for some fresh news!

Forumotion Team

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Important notice: Forums with versions PhpBB2 & PunBB and custom templates need to make the following modification in order for the option to work

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PhpBB 2 : viewtopic_body
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Code:

<table class="forumline" width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0">
   <tr>
      <th class="thLeft" nowrap="nowrap" width="150px" height="26">{L_AUTHOR}</th>
      <th class="thRight" nowrap="nowrap" colspan="2">{L_MESSAGE}</th>
   </tr>
   <!-- END first_post_br -->
   <!-- END displayed -->
   <!-- BEGIN hidden -->
   <tr>
      <td class="postdetails {postrow.hidden.ROW_CLASS}" colspan="2" align="center">{postrow.hidden.MESSAGE}</td>
   </tr>
   <!-- END hidden -->
   <!-- END postrow -->
   <!-- BEGIN no_post -->
   <tr align="center">
      <td class="row1" colspan="3" height="28">
         <span class="genmed">{no_post.L_NO_POST}</span>
      </td>
   </tr>
   <!-- END no_post -->
   <tr align="right">
      <td class="catBottom" colspan="3" height="28">
         <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
            <tr>
               <td width="9%" class="noprint"> </td>
               <td align="center" class="t-title"><a name="bottomtitle"></a><h1 class="cattitle">{TOPIC_TITLE}</h1></td>
               <td align="right" nowrap="nowrap" width="9%" class="browse-arrows"><a href="{U_VIEW_OLDER_TOPIC}">{L_VIEW_PREVIOUS_TOPIC}</a> <a href="{U_VIEW_NEWER_TOPIC}">{L_VIEW_NEXT_TOPIC}</a> <a href="#top">{L_BACK_TO_TOP}</a> </td>
            </tr>
         </table>
      </td>
   </tr>
</table>

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Code:

<!-- BEGIN promot_trafic -->
<table class="forumline" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" id="ptrafic_close" style="display:'';margin: 1px 0px 1px 0px">
   <tr>
      <td class="catBottom" height="28">
         <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
            <tr>
               <td valign="top"><h1 class="cattitle"> {PROMOT_TRAFIC_TITLE}</h1></td>
               <td align="right" valign="middle"><span class="gensmall"><a href="javascript:ShowHideLayer('ptrafic_open','ptrafic_close');"><img src="{TABS_MORE_IMG}" alt="+" align="middle" border="0" /></a></span></td>
            </tr>
         </table>
      </td>
   </tr>
</table>

<table class="forumline" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" id="ptrafic_open" style="display:none;margin: 1px 0px 1px 0px">
   <tr>
      <td class="catBottom" height="28">
         <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
            <tr>
               <td valign="top"><h1 class="cattitle"> {PROMOT_TRAFIC_TITLE}</h1></td>
               <td align="right" valign="middle"><span class="gensmall"><a href="javascript:ShowHideLayer('ptrafic_open','ptrafic_close');"><img src="{TABS_LESS_IMG}" alt="-" align="middle" border="0" /></a></span></td>
            </tr>
         </table>
      </td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td class="row2" valign="top">
      <ul>
         <!-- BEGIN link -->
         <li><a href="{promot_trafic.link.U_HREF}" target="_blank" class="gensmall">{promot_trafic.link.TITLE}</a>
         <!-- END link -->
      </ul>
      </td>
   </tr>
</table>
<!-- END promot_trafic -->

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PunBB : viewtopic_body
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Code:

<div class="pun-crumbs">
   <p class="crumbs">
      <a href="{U_INDEX}">{L_INDEX}</a>{NAV_CAT_DESC} »
      <strong><a href="{TOPIC_URL}">{TOPIC_TITLE}</a></strong>
   </p>
</div>

Paste:

Code:

<!-- BEGIN promot_trafic -->
<div class="main">
   <div class="main-head clearfix" id="ptrafic_close" style="display:none">
      <p class="h2">{PROMOT_TRAFIC_TITLE}</p>
   </div>
</div>
<div class="main">
   <div class="main-head clearfix" id="ptrafic_open" style="display:''">
      <p class="h2">{PROMOT_TRAFIC_TITLE}</p>
   </div>
   <div class="main-content clearfix">
      <ul>
         <!-- BEGIN link -->
         <li><a href="{promot_trafic.link.U_HREF}" target="_blank" class="ptrafic">{promot_trafic.link.TITLE}</a>

         <!-- END link -->
      </ul>
   </div>
</div>
<!-- END promot_trafic -->

I have a problem with several related links as well, some of which are inappropriate do to just having one to two words in common.

I also wish there was an option where the exchange only happens to those who activate it as well? It wouldn't make sense if we activate it and the other site didnt, it's like a give away, a way to loose members too, like stated above.

it's nice yes, im not sure if it's helping or not, but i wish it can be filtered and optimized like that.

(dunno if this has been stated earlier, sorry if it has)

If anyone feels like pressing a Yes button today, vote for this suggestion. We want an option to turn off off-site links.

TheListener_ wrote:If anyone feels like pressing a Yes button today, vote for this suggestion. We want an option to turn off off-site links.

Agreed and this is a very sensible suggestion, TheListener.

Thanks for info sir

for phpBB2 just copy this PASTE code in viewtopic_body and thats it ?

i turned off this options! on similar topics in my forum i get link to another forum. When i go to this forum i saw there is no similar topics options! So, my forum is free commercial for other?! no thank you

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We strongly suggest you change this new property dynamic in tell to ensure peak area. Nevertheless, if you do not like to you can e'er change in one emit.

Hi, my forum is www.golfrepublic.org and I want to disable traffic exchange. However, I keep getting General Error - Could not update ptrafic data

Please help!

I would appreciate the forumotion admin remove that traffic exchange box away from my forum. it is of no use to my community. absolutely useless feature.