Question on "Forum Link"

[HUMMER]

When your in Admincp >>Forums and Moderators>> Add new forum

Forum Link (Entering a URL here will cause anyone clicking the forum link to be redirected to that URL)



You have an option to put a link..my question is does google recognize this as a real link with weight so that PR will be transfered? I notice when I hover my mouse over the link it shows shows the existing website that I'm on and not the link to the website.

[Jake Bunce]

I don't know how Google handles redirects. I imagine it is smart and recognizes the true destination and indexes accordingly.

[rady]

google and other bots don't recognize redirects, so the url must be a direct one

[HUMMER]

Is there a way to make a direct link and have it show up in the same place as the "Forum Link"?

[Jake Bunce]

Admin CP -> Styles & Templates -> Style Manager -> « » -> Forum Home Templates -> forumhome_forumbit_level2_post

Add the red code:

<tr align="center">
	<td class="alt2"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_$forum[statusicon].gif" alt="" border="0" id="forum_statusicon_$forum[forumid]" /></td>
	<td class="alt1Active" align="$stylevar[left]" id="f$forum[forumid]">
		<div>
			<a href="[color=red]<if condition="$forum[link]">$forum[link]<else />[/color]forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$forum[forumid][color=red]</if>[/color]"><strong>$forum[title]</strong></a>
			<if condition="$show['browsers']"><span class="smallfont">(<phrase 1="$forum[browsers]">$vbphrase[x_viewing]</phrase>)</span></if>
		</div>

Make a similar change to the forumhome_forumbit_level1_post template.

[HUMMER]

After inputing the code I get this message:


The following error occurred when attempting to evaluate this template:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /home/appraise/public_html/forum/includes/adminfunctions_template.php(3537) : eval()'d code on line 6

This is likely caused by a malformed conditional statement. It is highly recommended that you fix this error before continuing, but you may continue as-is if you wish.

[Jake Bunce]

Did you add the ending </if>? Scroll right.

[HUMMER]

Yes that is what was missing... Thank you!