I'm not sure if you read aspen's initial posts, but they explain the SEO benefits. They also explain why adding nofollow tags to external links doesn't work the way it used to.

Please see here:

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/

At least on Google for sure, nofollow no longer provides any SEO benefit. Zip zero zilch.

Hello thank you for mod. But i cant make it work for me. I have done all file mods, put php file in forum root, installed product. But no effect :(. I have vbseo installed maybe that's the problem. Can you help me please with some advice?

The fix you posted does indeed work, but I only allow my users to use an upload signature and it happens to me, as well. It only happens on signatures that have an image that is linked. At least, as far as I can tell. This signature triggered the issue:

Now, what I did find was that... in the user's profile, in the "About Me" section, it works perfectly. But in showthread, it just displays the sigpic tags. HTH.

There may be a conflict with VBseo. You could have also done the file edits incorrectly. Please doublecheck your work, they can be confusing, for instance one edit needs to go just inside a closing } in a line of 3 } and it can be easy to misread it and put it after all three, instead of after just the first two.

Some sections on my forum are mostly driven by RSS feeds from other external sites so I have lots and lots of links to other sites. Trust me .. I am seeing a big positive difference in what the mod is doing already on my site. I had once used the rel="nofollow" anchor tag attribute without any value-added noticed so I say stay clear of it.

I am monitoring this mod on my site and will provide updates later. So far, it works well for me.

You can check for yourself > Naija Discussion Forum


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Yeah thank you. It was my mistake in file edits.

Hi,
The following link gives a invalid url:
http://jv.news24.com/Beeld/Opinie/Ru...540963,00.html

This seems to be the case on all none www urls, any help on this?

Thanks

if you've got it installed please mark it as such Stefanus.

I will look into that bug, should be an easy fix.

Subdomains/non-www domains work fine; it's the commas that's causing the problem. I've modified the externalredirect.php file to allow for those, as well. Just uploaded the attached version over your existing one. :)