I didn't realise that I have installed any hack that would do this - the forum is somehow importing the TITLE of the page from whatever link I post... eg: if I post one to this forum instead of saying
vBulletin.org it comes up as
vBulletin.org Forum - The Official vBulletin Resource! so it must be doing something in order to actually retrieve that information from the site
I made an example...
http://www.mybusinessforum.co.uk/cof...test-post.html
the only content on that page is
www.vbulletin.org
www.google.com
www.mybusinessforum.co.uk
everything else has appeared my magic!
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All fixed... I found a setting in vbSEO that was auto set to change urls to add a keyword rich impoted title... why that would be set by default is totally beyond me as it totally messes up the link !! but never mind - all done now
thanks for your advice Lynne.