Hey what's up?
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it's just linking an image to a url
In bb code to insert an image on the forum you use
where # is the url of your image. To find the url of an image just right-click it and copy the url.
To insert a link on the forum, in bb code you use
Where # is the url of the page you want to link to and * is what you want to link.
So you combine the two and use
url of image you want to link
Sometimes the spammers will use a smiley to link to the page not in the hope that someone will click it but because the search engines crawl the site and notice a topic is being talked about (whatever the spammer is spamming) and that there is a link. The search engines will then associate the link with whatever words are used around it. The spammer does this on enough forums in the hopes that his or her site will be listed higher in the search engine results because one way a search engine decides where a site is listed when a certain word is searched for is how many links on the internet point to that site. This technique is probably counter productive (though it once might have been succesful) as smart search engines change their algorithm all the time to adjust for people trying to game the system in ways like this and de-list sites they think are being spammed.
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We know you are confused person (
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Can't make up your mind, eh? ???
lol