vBulletin Mods

Any help on this?

Please add the option to disallow guest viewing for externalredirect.php

I'll see about the bug, sorry, been busy. But again, we can't guarantee it'll work with every other mod, we can do our best to try, but sometimes there are just conflicts.

Disallow guest viewing? The mod already includes an option to turn off redirects for logged in users. Are you saying you want it on for logged in users but NOT guests? Why? There would be absolutely no search engine benefit for doing that, so you might as well not use it at all.

The point is not to hide the external links, or to block them. Google's changes show that you only hurt yourself doing that.

The point is to bury them, and make sure they're outnumbered, so any loss of weight is minimal.

And that auto-redirect is an option you can leave on or off anyways.

If you mean settings in Admincp -> Help vBulletin Options -> Two-Step External Link Settings, then yes, I am sure.

And one more thing - this hack can not handle some URLs correctly (below is an example from forum based on phpBB3), after redirect appears page with error, becouse URL is cropped.

In post is:
http://www.website.com/forum/viewtop...t=500&start=50
...but this hack redirect page to this:
http://www.website.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3

When I make the first change (in /includes/class_bbcode.php), it takes my whole site down. I just get a white page.

Perhaps this conflicts with vbseo or another mod?

I want to use this just for external forum links, can I just skip the file edits and use it in the format like: example.com/forums/externalredirect.php?url=http://www.externalexample.com?

I tried it, did not work properly. When I would click a link it would say "Not allowed for phpredirect.php - 404 error" etc etc.

Did you check permissions?

what's the differ with Vbanonymizer ?

Hello evry one installed works great but want to know how we can redirect url automaticllay after some time because i saw on some forum they have this thing after showing warrning message link redirect after some seconds without clicking on Continue to http://www.********.ca
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WARNING: you are about to leave ***.com and proceed to an external address. This link was submitted by a user and we cannot guarantee the appropriateness of the content it contains.
Continue to http://www.********.ca

Search for "meta refresh" on google. It's a simple meta tag that will redirect after some seconds.

I have installed this addon, has run maybe 2 weeks, but now dont run this :(
i have vb 3.8.4 - i uninstall it but i observe this topic, when this realy run

sry i dint read all the reply's on this thread
but whats the difference to this mod vbAnonymizer ( http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=184267)

There is a setting in admin to put your own site (internal links) or any other site in a whitelist to not be redirected.

I believe their redirect doesn't have the intermediate bridge page which is absolutely crucial for link weight retention.

The redirect isn't what saves your weight, it is the intermediate page that sends most of it back through your site via your menu.