Nice module, thanks.

However, it would be great to have a check box in setting to choose if admin wants the external links be tagged with rel="nofollow" tag. In order to get even more flexibility, maybe also a list in settings, where admin can whitelist some web sites where admin will let robots follow. Sorry I'm not a coder and can't help... but my 2 cents anyway...

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this is a much wanted feature...can someone say..how this can be done ? lots of spam comes in without this.

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Unfortunately this is not something external_links module can handle. This module works by traversing all the links on the page using javascript. It then adds the 'ext' class to links and adds any necessary behavior modifications for external links. This same method would not work for rel="nofollow", because it would only be added AFTER the page was loaded (via javascript). Bots and Google both wouldn't ever even see a change made by javascript.

I'd suggest turning on the the rel="nofollow" filter in the URL filter module (provided as a part of the core filter.module) or the link.module for CCK. Other site-wide solutions would need to be much more intensive than these solutions.

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Thanks a lot for taking the time and explaining the situation, appreciated! This is valuable information to help on general understanding how this kind of things work, thank you for your support.