Cool. Glad you figured it out.

But there is one very important reason that does indeed reduce your PR... connecting to bad neighborhood. Link spamming your competitors to bad neighborhoods is a Machiavellian technique used by some forum and blog competitors.

No. You have to link FROM your site TO those "bad neighborhoods".

I'll test this one, thank! :D

I just sifted through all of the off-topic, redundant arguments and it appears that there aren't any real issues with this one, so I just installed it. When adding domains to the list, do we need to put http:// in front of each one, or set it up just like the whitelist? I have a module on my home page (using cmps) that serves as a site map and the internal links in it still open in a new window so I am wondering if this mod isn't intended to work with the cmps links or if I just have my domain list set up wrong. ... I guess I can mess around with it and find out for myself.

Thanks for the mod, btw. :)

update: the issue I was having still exists, even with http:// in the domain names, but the nofollows are working perfect, which is what I really was interested in... so thanks again!

:) This mod will modify all URLs in vBulletin's threads/posts. I haven't tested this with vbAdvanced, but there it should only work with pages that are in 'BBCode Mode' (can't recall the exact verbiage).

Regarding the format for the domains, you shouldn't specify the http://, and you should list one domain per line. E.g.:

www.mydomain.com
forums.mydomain.com


Thanks.

Works great. Thanks.

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I'm on 3.6.7 but I don't see Rebuild Post Cache... is Rebuild Thread Information the same thing?

Hi.

No, Rebuild Thread Information is a different action.

I am using 3.6.7 PL1, and I have a Rebuild Post Cache right after the 'Rebuild Search Index'. Could you verify if this option is later in the Update Counters page?

I have Empty Signature Cache after Rebuild Search Index. :erm:
Any idea why that might be (and hopefully, how to fix it)? :confused:

After looking at vBulletin's code, it seems that this option is only shown if the Post Cache is being used.

If you don't see this option in the Admin CP it means that your forum is not caching posts, and therefore, it is not needed to rebuild the post cache.

You're right. I checked on the .com and they said the same.
I couldn't find the option to turn it on either but I won't derail this thread with that, I'll pursue it over there.

Thanks for following it up for me. :up:

:) Any time.

Installed it, but it doesn't do anything. New Links look like always.
Any ideas?

links will look no different in postview...

View the source and instead of seeing <a href="http://www.domain.com">blah</a>, it'll be <a href="http://www.domain.com" rel="nofollow">blah</a>

I have vbseo installed, but I sure want the internal links open in same window feature. Will this mod interfere with vbseo? Can the nofollow be turned off without affecting the links opening in a new window?

It shouldn't. This mod 'extends' vBulletin's handling of the URL BBCode. It should be compatible with any add-on that does not play with URL BBCodes... I haven't tested this though.

I'm new to this plug-in stuff for vbulletin so please excuse my ignorance!!!

Your instructions for install state:

My question is, which folder do I upload the .xml file to?

I've had a look around and think it goes in the folder /public_html/forum/includes/xml but just wanted to clarify this before I go ahead.

I assume that after I've uploaded this file I then go into import options in vbulletin and install the plugin.

Go to your adminCP and look under plugins & products. There go to the product manager and upload the xml from there.

Thanks Alfa1 for your assistance, I never thought of doing that!

Installed in under 1 min:)

Remember to add your URL into 'the internal domain' option in the ADMIN CP > VBULLETIN OPTIONS > NUHIT URL SETTINGS before you rebuild the thread info.

Note that from Admin CP > Maintenance > Update Counters > Rebuild Thread information to update the nofollow on all previous threads.

:)

Pebbled, glad you got it working.

Alfa, thanks for the assist.

I'll update the instructions with more details.

Hi ElfMage, and no worries! I'm just a newbie with plugins so need accurate instructions sometimes :erm:

For info, my forum is running 3.6.8 -- and it's all apparently still working :)

So a quick thank you to Alfa1 for guidance over me not breaking my forum this morning, and ElfMage for this simple plugin.

NOTE: To anyone considering using this plugin, can I just say it's supremely simple to set up - if I can do it, then anyone can :cool:

sir ...i want to uninstall it...

but it still work in links in my forum ...

i rebulit cach for post ...but it stilll!!!

I may be wrong here, but as I understand it, this add on adds rel="no follow"to your links. So you tried this software and now all the links you specified have this added.
Now, you have uninstalled it, so it will not add any more rel="no follow" to your links. :D

Your existing links have been altered. I understand that you want to revert them to their original state. I do not know if Elfmage has a solution to that, but I would not expect it.

This add-on works on the translation of the URL BBCode to anchor HTML.
If you uninstall it, and rebuild the post cache all effects should disappear, and everything should be as before.

Quick question...

I've looked at the source code and noticed that the rel="nofollow" link doesn't seem to be added to the user homepage link as shown in the menu displayed in the top left link to their username of any posts they make. (I hope you can make sense of that!) i.e.

View Public Profile
Send a private message to myexamples
Visit myexamples homepage! < This one links to their homepage
Find all posts by myexample

Is there any way for this rel="nofollow" to be added?

Hi,

This mod works only on links included within user posts. (e.g. using the URL bbcode).

The link you mention is part of the postbit template. You can add the rel="nofollow" manually by editing the corresponding template (e.g. postbit or postbit_legacy).

For instance, in vb 3.6.8 the template snippet looks like this:

Hope this helps.

Thanks ElfMage for the info, and yes, I ought to have been paying a bit more attention to what this addon does - as you quite rightly say, it's for user posts, not for existing vb code.

My apologies :o

Hi ElfMage, you are going to curse me for this request, but would it be possible for you to twiddle with the code in order to add the rel=nofollow into any images using that users are adding into their posts via the <img src= code!

I've noticed that the rel=nofollow code isn't being added to these images and a few users are now doing this on the forum which are linking to other websites, this use is actually affecting our ranking :eek:

I dread having to go and manually add the nofollow code into every image posted on here by other users :(

Hi Pebbled,

Are you referring to the use of the IMG BBCode/tag?, My understanding is that the rel="nofollow" is only used for anchors (e.g. the URL BBCode).

Or are you referring to an anchor, which contains an image tag in it?

Thanks.

It's images placed into posts by users using the [IMG] code rather than in a text link.

I'm actually trying to figure out a way of stopping users from posting images into the forum via this [IMG] code rather than using the attachments method - Any ideas how I can do this if the nofollow route isn't possible?

One small observation:

I've noticed that when the thread containing any external links in the post is archived by vbulletin, the link displayed in the post seems to lose the nofollow attribute, so I assume that all links are once again followed by search engines who are viewing the archive pages.

You can check this out by clicking on the 'archive' link shown at the bottom of most vBulletin forums, then selecting a thread with an external link in it and viewing the source code.

Is there any way of adding the nofollow code into the archive???

I have it installed and working well.

Is there any way it can be modifed so the the rel="nofollow" is not added to internal links. We do a lot of linking between threads and the rel="nofollow" is added to all links. It would be good if it was applied only to links going off-site/external.

In admincp_>vbulletin options -> nuhit urls -> internal domains:
Set internal domains with a comma separated list of domains.

Nope. Thats does not work.

You will need to rebuild post cache before any changed take effect.

Thanks, but tried that and it did not work either.

BUT, I got it working. Changed the domain in the list of internal domains to domain.com and not http://www.domain.com.

The FAQ's and instructions should be changed to reflect that.

Indeed. It needs to be domain.com to work. This should be added.

Hi,

I apologize if I overlooked this, but I've noticed the "nofollow" tag on some other links, and I just want to make sure this is correct. Like on links like this:

and

...for example

Just a few examples. Are these suppose to be "nofollow" too (that might even be standard from VB, I'm not sure. But any opinion is greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

not works in 3.6.9