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

[ElfMage]

Cool. Glad you figured it out.

[dottom]

Originally Posted by djbaxter

The rel="nofollow" tag was designed to reduce link spamming, especially blog comment spamming.

It really hasn't been successful in achieving that goal. It never had "reducing PR leak" as a goal because "PR leak" doesn't exist.

I don't have to know the details of Google's algorithms to know that it's a myth. Neither does anyone else.

But all of this is off-topic. My intent was not to initiate a multi-page debate but just to alert the author to the error in the claim he was making for a mod that otherwise may be useful for many forum owners.

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.

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by dottom

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".

[obmob]

I'll test this one, thank!

[TRR]

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!

[ElfMage]

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.

[Chachacha]

Works great. Thanks.

[PugWD]

Originally Posted by ElfMage

Will this change my existing posts?
To rebuild the links in your existing posts, you need to go to AdminCP > Maintenance > Update Counters > Rebuild Post Cache.

This is from vBulletin's documentation:

[high]* PugWD marks installed.
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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?

[ElfMage]

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?

[PugWD]

Originally Posted by ElfMage

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)?