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| A Simple Way to Use Internal URLs for External Links |
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| Tuesday, 08 April 2008 | |
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"I'm looking for a Joomla component that will allow me to change outbound links from direct urls into internal urls." Essentially they're looking to change a link from http://www.bbc.co.uk to http://www.alledia.com/link/bbc/. The link still goes to the BBC, but it first goes to a url on the webmaster's own site.
Why Would People Want Internal URLs for Outbound Links?
How to Create Internal URLs for Outbound Links
Add the link to your weblinks component. You'll be given an inbound redirect link. Click here to see one example in our weblinks component. The links will appear in this format: http://www.alledia.com/weblinks/joomla/ Afterwards you can use a component such as Simply Links to apply that link to all instances of that word on your site. We do this with words such as sh404SEF, SEF Advance, Joomla SEO Club, and even affiliate links such as Joomlashack. Finally, make sure to unpublish your weblinks search mambot or else it may start to clog up your site's search results.
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Comments (15)
  written by Physicist, April 08, 2008
Most of redirects is based on mosRedirect function that use 301 redirect. But in this case you lose PR too. So, check that used script makes javascript-redirect rather then 301.
 written by greenlivingideas, April 08, 2008
So which components use javascript versus mosRedirect? Anyone know?
written by Mike Law, April 08, 2008
Thanks for this tip, I never thought of doing it that way. I currently use php redirects and insert Google Analytics into each one to track clicks, will Google Analytics still be able to monitor those external link clicks using this method?
I have been looking for an extension like Simpy Links for Joomla 1.5 as it's a crucial function in my opinion, any suggestions? Mike. written by Kristofer, April 09, 2008
Though this messes up if you for instance wants to use Snap shots of your links - for instance http://www.snap.com/. There are mambots for that for Joomla, but they target external URLs, not internal... I asked about this at the Joomla forum, but haven't received any replies...
written by guido, April 09, 2008
the only commercial one does not automatically create redirect links, which means that it could become too complicated if you have more than X publishers.
I don't know if the modified version of simply links does javascript-redirect, but I have been looking for the developer's site in order to ask about 1.5 compatibility (see Mike) and have not been able to find it, anybody who knows better? written by guido, April 09, 2008
Found the simply links original version! it is for 1.5!
http://www.nekkarcity.de/ Wondering if the cloaker is for 1.5 as well... written by guido, April 09, 2008
I'm still on hunt mode and I've found this extension
http://extensions.joomla.org/c...Itemid,35/. it seems to cloak in some way the url, I suspect it's using mosRedirect, how do I tell the difference?  written by Steve Burge, April 09, 2008
Hi Guido
We haven't updated the cloaker for 1.5, although we may do shortly. The CMS top sites extension is just a glorified reciprocal links scheme and not recommended. written by Mike Law, April 09, 2008
Thanks a lot for positing that, I didn't even look at the site as it said it was only 1.0 compatible on the Joomla.org site. Very basic tool, quite a bit of room for improvement but still worthwhile using.
Mike. written by guido, April 10, 2008
steve, you say it's not recommended because it is probably going to be penalized by Google?
(still waiting for someone telling us which system doesn't use mosredirect...)  written by Emir Sakic, April 10, 2008
SEF Advance will allow you to define custom redirects. So you can define an internal link like: http://www.yourdomain.com/bbc/ to be redirected to http://www.bbc.com
You can also specify the prefered redirect header for each link separately. written by Johan Janssens, April 12, 2008
We solved this problem on Joomlatools.org by building a very simple com_redirect. It uses one view, a xml url redirect parameter for the menu manager and a controller to handle the actual redirect. Very easy to create.
An example of an link would be : http://www.joomlatools.org/pro...n/faq.html Johan written by guido, April 15, 2008
Emir, you still have to manually add links with SEFadvance if I'm not wrong, which is a daunting task if you have 100 links and growing, let us know if there's a way to do it!
Johan, it would be great to have an automated redirect according to your instructions! I know you're very busy, but maybe someone skilled could contribute to the cause... Sorry, but I'm not the one skilled...  written by Miami, June 18, 2008
For this one--> "Some webmasters worried about leaking their Google Page Rank to other sites. I am not a big believer in this technique, but I know several people who consider this to be important. ' You can always use "no follow" tag
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