Board Optimization - NuHIT URLs: Add rel=nofollow and control where links are opened

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Description

This small mod let's you control how URLs should be processed in your forum.

Adding rel="nofollow" to links in your forum will help improve your sites overall pagerank by reducing pagerank leak due to link to external sites added by your members.

This mod lets you do this for all URLs posted by your members.

In addition, you can control whether URLs should open in a new window, or should open in the same window the user is on.

Installation

• Download and extract .zip
• Upload product xml ( Admin CP > Plugins & Products > Manage Products > Import Product )
• Configure your internal domains from vBulletin Options > NuHIT URL Settings
• Click Mark as Installed, and you get this cool image for your signature

Features

• No vBulletin core files modified.
• No new files to add.
• Add rel=nofollow only to external links.
• Allow internal URLs to open in current window.
• Support multiple domains for internal URLs (e.g. forums.vbulletin.org,wiki.vbulletin.org)
• Easy to use and manage from vBulletin's Admin CP

[Pebbled]

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?

[Pebbled]

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???

[birdie]

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.

[Alfa1]

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

[birdie]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

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

Nope. Thats does not work.

[Alfa1]

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

[birdie]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

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.

[Alfa1]

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

[bluecat]

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:

<a href="member.php?find=lastposter&amp;f=15" rel="nofollow">

and

<a href="showgroups.php" rel="nofollow">View Forum Leaders

...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.

[masterross]

not works in 3.6.9