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http://www.websitepublisher.net/arti...nk_popularity/ especially here: http://www.websitepublisher.net/arti...k_popularity/7 which is the page that covers this specific issue - just ignore what is said about nofollow, the article hasn't been updated yet This article here: http://www.websitepublisher.net/arti...nternal-links/ covers this topic specifically for your internal links, rather than external links, but may help you understand the concept more. |
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After some study on the subject I can plainly see the use for this feature.
A question if you would,... Since all of my sig and post-external (as well as post-internal links), open in a new browser instance, and since this modification mearly provides a go-between page for the purposes defined, would it not be a good idea to just use a redirect page similar to stock vB? IE - no header, navbar, footer, nor ad spots,... just the simple box stating the specific redirect? I have reviewed your forum to get a feel of how it works, and the redirect page seems confusing with all the normal templated forum hotspots used in it. Is this something that can be edited within a template for the mod? (I know I havent clicked installed, I am trying to decide if this will work as defined and be customizable as I described) Thanks in advance. |
I'll need more details to help you troubleshoot guys. Did you do the file edits?
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You NEED the menu/header/footer because that is what saves the link weight. When link weight is transferred it is shared between all the links on a page, which is why long forum threads become so dangerous because they can add up a lot of links (or blog posts with lots of comments, hence the upcoming wordpress plugin). So, what you're doing is increasing your odds by outnumbering the external links with internal ones. On the forum page the external links may outnumber the internal ones, but on the redirect page there will only ever be 1 external link. To find out how much weight is lost to that external link divide 1 by the total number of links on the page. So, if you have 20 links on the page, 5% is lost through the external link. If we removed all the headers and footers and everything then you'd be dividing 1/1 = 100%, 100% of the weight would be lost. You've gained nothing. Otherwise we'd not do a visible redirect at all, just do an automated php redirect. The point is to provide a redirect page with lots of visible internal links, the more visible internal links, the better. Does that help? |
Question answered and that makes complete sense.
Thank you. I will be installing shortly. You have a nice site and very informative btw. |
OK, nother question,..
I noted that at least on your site on the forums in showthread,.. The sig links are processed through the redirect regardless of their destination, internally or externally. Does this also hold true for posts, blog entries, etc? Does the modification have ability to recognise internal links vs external links and properly allow or disallow the redirect depending on the destination? (Just thinking it would be a headache for members to click an internal link embedded in either a post,sig,or vbblog, and have to review and go through the redirect page) (I dont mean any CMS, just stock vb products) |
I'll field that one. :) The script automatically leaves links from the site's own domain alone. There's also a "whitelist" setting where you can list other domains that you'd like the mod to ignore.
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Since the redirect pages full purpose is to dilute the assumed pr points loss for pages with many external links in posts, than the redirect page is assumably doing this by virtue of pulling the link off the page as a single external link, and surrounding it with internal links that normally appear as a function of page view in the forums. But the more I think about it, it wont matter anyway on the redirect page, as the original threadview page is the one we hold greater concern with in regards to pagerank, as that is the one we have indexed. The external links will be by virtue of this mod, already prevent the pr points from being leaked away, and the redirect page, which is never spidered anyway as it is nofollow (I believe), will hold no concern nor effect of the pr points of the original indexed thread page. Basically, I am seeing that a simple no-header/no-footer redirect box/page would suffice in protecting the pr points of the original thread, provided the original thread external links are reformatted to appear internal, as I believe this modification does already, to the search engines. Is my thinking flawed in this? Thanks again. |
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The redirect pages WILL be indexed by search engines, they have to be. And the redirect links cannot be nofollowed, or you still lose the PageRank. That is what Google changed. Prior to this change using nofollow removed the links from the equation that figured how much weight would be given to each link. They changed it so the links are included, they just don't get delivery of their weight. Let me try to explain as simply as possible. Normally you would send all your weight to the external links, or, if they were nofollowed, the weight would simply be removed from circulation. In either case, you do not get to keep it. By using this plugin instead of sending your weight to the abyss or to external sites, you're sending your weight to the redirect page. The redirect page then sends most of your weight back through your site through your menu/header/footer. The small fraction that is left is all that ends up being lost. |
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