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Originally Posted by smirkley

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.

That would defeat the purpose.

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?