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Originally Posted by TWTCommish

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.

Thank you and that does answer my question. I will be installing this but havent yet as I am not at my main console. Had I installed it I would have known about the whitelist, so my bad, and thank you again.

Originally Posted by aspen0

That would defeat the purpose.

You NEED the menu/header/footer because that is what saves the link weight.

As I have further thought about this, I am left wondering a bit more on the purpose of all the internal links on the redirect page.

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.