External Links (I'm confused)

I have a drop-down "links" menu, but all the links are now pointing to this internal url (http://www.thecouchpotatoes.org/forums/#)...how do I fix that?



Thanks,
Nick

where should they link?

Originally Posted by briansol

where should they link?

Those are links to other web sites, yet for some reason vBSEO has rewritten them. Now they point to what ever page you happen to be viewing when you access the drop-down menu.

For example: If I'm looking at "my home page" and I mouse over the "Links" menu, all the (external links) within that menu point to "my home page" --> (http://www.thecouchpotatoes.org/forums/#) instead of the links actual url.

All my other menus work perfectly. It's just the external links I'm having problems with. Clearly this has something to do with one of the many vBSEO features, but which one?

Thank you,
Nick

Hi Nick,

Can you post the relevant template (or portion of template) where the link html is?

Originally Posted by Ace Shattock

Hi Nick,

Can you post the relevant template (or portion of template) where the link html is?

Yep...here ya go!

Navigation / Breadcrumb Templates / navbar

Code:

<!-- Web Links Menu -->
    <div class="vbmenu_popup" id="web_links_menu" style="display:none">
    <table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0">
    
    <tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/menu/geezer-gamers.gif" border="0" />
    <a href="http://www.geezergamers.com/" target="_blank">Geezer Gamers</a></td></tr>
    
    <tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/menu/total-online-play.gif" border="0" />
    <a href="http://www.totalonlineplay.com/" target="_blank">Total Online Play</a></td></tr>
    
    <tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/menu/pliwood-munkee.gif" border="0" />
    <a href="http://www.pliwoodmunkee.com/" target="_blank">Pliw00D MunKEE</a></td></tr>
        
    <tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/menu/no-favicon.png" border="0" />
    <a href="http://xbltreetopflyer.tripod.com/" target="_blank">TreeTopFlyer's Den of Inequity</a></td></tr>
    
    <tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/menu/evil-avatar-radio.gif" border="0" />
    <a href="http://www.evilavatar.com/" target="_blank">Evil Avatar Radio</a></td></tr>

    </table>
    </div>

try adding

rel="novbseo" in the link

ie,

<a href="http://whatever.com" rel="novbseo" target.... >

Please check this: Links not working with outgoing Urchin tracking

Originally Posted by briansol

try adding

rel="novbseo" in the link

ie,

<a href="http://whatever.com" rel="novbseo" target.... >

That didn't work: Apparently it has to be done in conjunction with this:

1. modify postbit template and add rel="novbseo" to the member URL links (these links will not be processed by vBSEO as a result), VBSEO_ALLOW_REL_NOVBSEO should be manually enabled in config_vbseo.php:

and I wasn't able to fine that setting in my config_vbseo.php

Originally Posted by Oleg Ignatiuk

Please check this: Links not working with outgoing Urchin tracking

This worked:

2. OR disable analytics tracking of external urls

Thanks guys, I appreciate your help!

Nick