rel="external nofollow"

I'd like to be able to use both of these, but currently with the vbSEO rel=nofollow enabled, I'm not able to on external links.

I have a function placed in vbulletin_global.js that looks like this:

Code:

function externalLinks() {
 if (!document.getElementsByTagName) return;              
 var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName("a");       
 for (var i=0; i<anchors.length; i++) {
   var anchor = anchors[i];
   if (anchor.getAttribute("href") &&   
       (anchor.getAttribute("rel") == "external" || anchor.getAttribute("rel") == "external nofollow")
      )
     anchor.target = "_blank";
 }
}
window.onload = externalLinks;

To open it in a new window while remaining code compliant, but vbSEO's function also puts one in there, and can't have 2 rel's..

With vbSEO one enabled, looks like this:

Code:

rel="nofollow" href="http://news.yahoo.com" rel="external nofollow">

Would be nice if we could have an option to add "external" to open in a new window for external links without having to use _blank.

Hello,

you can add rel="novbseo" tag to these links to exclude them from being processed by vBSEO:
<a rel="novbseo" href="http://news.yahoo.com" rel="external nofollow">

You should also manually enable VBSEO_ALLOW_REL_NOVBSEO option in config_vbseo.php file:

PHP Code:

    define('VBSEO_ALLOW_REL_NOVBSEO',   1);