Getting rid of the goto redirection

[BonjourChine]

I cant seem to find how to make good URLs instead of this frustrating redirect.

basically what it does now is the following :

http://www.myforum.com/directory/showlink.php?do=goto&l=6&linkurl=http://www.selectedlink.com/

When I just want it to do

http://www.selectedlink.com/

so that the link can get proper ranking by google.

[Brian]

You can change those links in the templates, but you will lose the ability to record the number of hits to the website if you remove the redirect.

[Possum]

Which template would need altering for this to occur?

I am thinking "ADV_LINKS_SHOWLINK", but I want to be sure.

[BonjourChine]

Yes its the one I edited. Basically just get rid of the whole showlink.php goto thing and just leave the URL.

[larina]

Hi Brian,

I'd also like to change the links as described in post #1. The template edits for this are no problem. The more problem is, how to delete everything where "Hits" and the hit-count is shown. I began with it by editing the templates also for this, but this is very much work and not really easy as many columns must be deleted. I stoped it then.

Would it be possible for a future release, to give the option to use direct linkings and not to count/show the hits?

larina

[larina]

... or at least just the option not to show the hits ... similar as we have the option not to show the replies?