Comments on: Name and Shame Secret Cloaking Website

By: Labsmedia

Labsmedia — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:08:05 +0000

Hello guys,

I’m the one from Labsmedia who set this up. I know it’s not «cool» and so on, but remember that this tool and the support is free, and if you know what you do, you know how to remove those «so fucking annoying links». Here’s how: just remove the whole text starting by to the . And that all, no harm done.

But I must say that there has never, and will never be some strange links to strange site. There is ONLY links to labsmedia.com, so if you have something else, then blame the one who installed the software/send you the zip file.

We don’t do bad things as it’s written here: if you really analyze our javascript code, you CAN’T find any «it faq» or Russian links. And you can have a look at all the releases on SourceForge.net, you won’t find any of these.

Note that almost every free tracking tool (except Google’s one, as they don’t need any more credits, do they?) has a tag, with a link to their website.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 04 May 2010 07:18:41 +0000

Thanks Lenwood – some useful info

By: Lenwood

Lenwood — Mon, 03 May 2010 21:09:18 +0000

@Andrew
When the tracking code is generated for you, it ads a link within noscript containers. Just delete the entire noscript line before you save it to the site (just above the closing body tag) and the ‘hidden’ link won’t appear on the site.

If you’re bored and want to take it a step further and ensure that it never gets generated in the 1st place, take a look around lines 234 to 248 of the /js/admin.js file. There’s a list of links defined within linkList, which are randomly called within the else statement.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:08:45 +0000

Jared: Nice work!

Would you be able to let us all know which JS file and which lines you removed so that we can all benefit from this?

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Heatmaps, hot or not? | www.paulolyslager.com — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:56:41 +0000

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By: Jared

Jared — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:07:43 +0000

I’ve looked into this a bit further. It looks like the Javascript snippet required to use Clickheat simply has a tag which includes a link back to the Clickheat website with some keywords like “SEO” “Marketing”, etc. A bit sneaky, but simply removing the content in the tag seems to eliminate the problem.

After removing the code I checked my website on seo-browser.com and it appears to be working fine.

~Jared

By: obzervant» » Using Click Heatmaps to Optimize Web Design

obzervant» » Using Click Heatmaps to Optimize Web Design — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:58:35 +0000

[...] site and my clients’ and have included mods for Total Mouse Tracking. I’m aware of a report that the installed code may include cloaked links which google’s search engine frown upon. [...]

By: Gregor

Gregor — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:35:39 +0000

Outrageous! I know that blackhat can be a bit dodgy but this is just, well, rude!!

Good job for catching it!

By: Ann, Portsmouth NH

Ann, Portsmouth NH — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:53:22 +0000

Hidden code like that really gives a lot of people heartburn. It would be really great if there was a way to completely, and confidently, block junk like that from happening.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:17:16 +0000

Thanks Donna – I wouldn’t be surprised if their other tools contained the same