Lack of interest [Suggestion] Add Titles to Internal/External Links

[KURTZ]

it's possible to add this feature which converts the posted urls in the title page? (it's something related with the SEO)

 

[Eric]

You mean something like vBSEO does?

 

[KURTZ]

You mean something like vBSEO does?

exactly that!

 

[welshstew]

what do you want to switch them too? They look pretty spot on to me

 

[Safin]

As in, if i paste a link in my post, the script should automatically fetch the thread title and convert the link to the format

[url=page link]Fetched Page Title[/url]

You can place a timeout for pages that are slow to respond to prevent hang up at new reply/thread stage. You can also use regex to check and not fetch titles when the user has already entered the link in a proper anchor text context.

Giving it a bit more though, the system will also have to pass the incoming link text through a censor and restrict the anchor text to a few defined characters.

 

[Brandon_R]

I don't think this is viable because of it's large resources that could be taken up.

 

[Safin]

I don't think this is viable because of it's large resources that could be taken up.

Ahmm i don't think it uses vast resources. Its a feature that exists for ages in vbseo. I run it on my big board and it does not hurt us. Instead it creates much more keyword rich anchor text links and can dramatically help SEO(as most users just paste the link and don't take the trouble to enter the anchor text.)
Even otherwise, its nice to know the context of a link in a post.

 

[Ahmed]

Good idea.
+1 for this suggestion, I hope we can get something like that. I use an add-on for this feature in my forum. It's really useful.

 

[Forsaken]

I think they said this is coming.

 

[Shamil]

In terms of SEO and etc, I think that it is more useful for the forum to get the name of the page that a link is pointing to, rather than just have a link.

E.g.

http://www.xenforo.com/community/ -> XenForo Community

 

[Brandon_R]

I think this was already suggested.

 

[KURTZ]

In terms of SEO and etc, I think that it is more useful for the forum to get the name of the page that a link is pointing to, rather than just have a link.

E.g.

http://www.xenforo.com/community/ -> XenForo Community

http://xenforo.com/community/thread...-external-links.991/

ps. pls merge the 2 discussions

 

[Onimua]

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/internal-links.253/#post-6836 -- Something like this?

 

[KURTZ]

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/internal-links.253/#post-6836 -- Something like this?

yep, this was another one ...

 

[feldon30]

An example is if I run a site about cars, and someone posts a deep link into Ford, I'd like the link name to be autoreplaced from:

https://www.flmowner.com/servlet/Co...w.ford.com/owner-services/maintaining-vehicle

to something like:

Identify Your Ford, Lincoln, or Mercury Vehicle @ FLMOwner.com

It's not smart tags (cause those SUCK), but instead known links.

 

[KURTZ]

An example is if I run a site about cars, and someone posts a deep link into Ford, I'd like the link name to be autoreplaced from:

https://www.flmowner.com/servlet/Co.../maintaining-vehicle

to something like:

Identify Your Ford, Lincoln, or Mercury Vehicle @ FLMOwner.com

It's not smart tags (cause those SUCK), but instead known links.

yes Feldon, this is what i've asked ...

 

[feldon30]

I'm a visual guy. A real world example helps sell your suggestion.

 

[Luke F]

I hate that feature of vBSEO :|

 

[Chromaniac]

vBulletin (or probably vbseo on vb) does it and it comes really handy...

http://uxmovement.com/design-articles/faster-with-top-aligned-labels

should become

Why Users Fill Out Forms Faster With Top Aligned Labels

oi... don't you think that the signature right below here is way too close to the content of the post? any planned changes to keep the separation clear?

 

[Dean]

I've only seen that on forums using vbseo.

Words cannot describe how annoying I find that is. If I wanted text substituted I would type the words out, then highlight and insert a link. I detest the software determining what the text should be.