Hacking the Footer of Xtremeblogg 1.0
Ei!..
I read some blogs on SEO experiments that blog footer also plays an important role in link building and pushing your posts on the top page of search engines. You can use the footer of your blog to put optimized keywords and link them to your blog posts.
I took a peek of the footer of my current wordpress theme which is Xtremeblogg 1.0. Well, it was nosebleeding to me to understand those junks! Yes, I can write and read PHP scripts but I am not proficient with all of those functions. I tried to search about eval() and base64_decode(), but I lost my patience. It may take time for me to understand everything about it.
Here is the junk that I mean:
<?php eval(base64_decode(‘Pz4gPCEtLSBiZWdpbiBmb290ZXIgLS0+
DQoNCg0KPGRpdiBzdHlsZT0iY2xlYXI6Ym90aDsiPjwvZGl2Pg0KDQo8ZGl2
IGlkPSJmb290ZXIiPiAmY29weTsgMjAwOCA8YSBocmVmPSI8P3BocCBlY
2hvIGdldF9zZXR0aW5ncygnaG9tZScpOyA/Pi8iPjw/cGhwIGJsb2dpbmZvKCduYW1lJyk7ID8+PC9hPi4gPGEgaHJlZj0ia
HR0cDovL2J1bGtlbWFpbGhlbHAuY29tLyIgdGl0bGU9ImJ1bGsgZW1ha
WwiPkJ1bGsgZW1haWw8L2E+LiA8YSBocmVmPSJodHRwOi8vZW1haWwtc2
VuZGVyLm5ldC8iIHRpdGxlPSJlbWFpbCBzZW5kZXIiPkVtYWlsIHNlbm
RlcjwvYT4NCjxkaXYgaWQ9ImNyZWRpdCI+PC9kaXY+DQo8L2Rpdj4NC
g0KPD9waHAgZG9fYWN0aW9uKCd3cF9mb290ZXInKTsgPz4NCg0K
PC9ib2R5Pg0KPC9odG1sPiA8Pw==’));?>
I tried to made some changes to these junks while reading about it. But to no success.
Why would I complicate things? This stupidity in me tried my simple average knowledge in HTML. And it worked!
I just replaced it with simple code of <div> and added some text to it that I will be putting my keyword links to my blog posts.
Here is a sample code of what I did to my footer.php;
<div id=”footer”>
<a href=”http://www.athanobs.net”>AthanObs.net</a> |
<a href=”http://bulkemailhelp.com”>Bulk Email</a> |
<a href=”http://email-sender.net”>Email Sender</a> |
</div>
19 March, 2010 at 08:49
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29 March, 2010 at 17:43
well, that was a workaround but some themes will not work properly will not work without the encoded txt as there may be “” there that could destroy the theme…..
as a workaround, you can decoded the base64 txt, then you may edit the footer from there and you may encode it back.. ^_^