Links not working with outgoing Urchin tracking

I just noticed a bit ago that none of the links in the postbit are working (person's homepage link, MySpace links). example page: UM.com would like to welcome Quo Vadis! - Ultimate Metal Forum

Here is the code for the link:

Code:

http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/quo-vadis/264610-um-com-would-like-welcome-quo-vadis.html

Is this a known issue? I couldn't find much when I searched the forum.

Hello Deron,

you can add "novbseo" attribute to these links as described here:
http://www.vbseo.com/f108/external-l...842/#post41079

Stupid question, but i can't view the solution that is posted?

That was a post in the pre-release forum. Here's the content of that post:


Well.. now vBulletin code that creates menu works as following:
if there is an "onclick" handler already assigned to a link, the link is removed (I'm not sure why, but this is how it works). The code looks like (vbulletin_menu.js):

HTML Code:

                    if (typeof linkobj.onclick == 'function')
                    {
                        tds[i].ofunc = linkobj.onclick;
                        tds[i].onclick = vB_Popup_Events.prototype.menuoption_onclick_function;
                        remove_link = true;
                    }

what are the workarounds?
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:

HTML Code:

<a rel="novbseo" href="$post[homepage]">

2. OR disable analytics tracking of external urls
3. OR modify vbulletin_menu.js file commenting out "remove_link = true;" line

Worked for me, thanks!

Hi,

i edit the template with "novbseo", Problem is now, that there is no rel=nofollow on all that links. I dont find the javascript code to edit and i want to have the external urchin working.

Any ideas ?

Why that first starts with 3.7.1 and the rc7 vbseo. Before we had not that problem, although this topic is very old.

Rob

You can manually add rel=nofollow as well if needed.