A Simple Way to Use Internal URLs for External Links

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.

So which components use javascript versus mosRedirect? Anyone know?

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.

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...

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?

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...

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?

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.

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...)

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.

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

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...

Did you try LinX component for Joomla...?

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

hi,
i think use LinX component for joomla is good way....
Thanks!

I am of the understanding that nofollow cannot be counted on to work, there is evidence that some don't pay attention to it, and/or in certain circumstances won't. Don't have the details, but the best authorities I've seen say we don't know just what the bots do or don't do and it cannot be relied on. Besides it seems to me that the maintenance level is high to add it to every single link.

I think this type of url redirecting is not good for website. It will make problem to your website. so try to avoid and go for any other best way.