diff --git a/app/controllers/site_menu_widgets_controller.rb b/app/controllers/site_menu_widgets_controller.rb
index 6fcbe7d..beac8c4 100644
--- a/app/controllers/site_menu_widgets_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/site_menu_widgets_controller.rb
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ class SiteMenuWidgetsController < ApplicationController
 					else
 						item["page_name"] = page.name
 						item["url"] = page.external_url
-						item["target"] = "_blank"
+						item["target"] = (is_internal_url?(page.external_url) ? "_self" : "_blank") rescue "_blank"
 						item["children"] = []
 					end
 				end
@@ -57,4 +57,24 @@ class SiteMenuWidgetsController < ApplicationController
 		}
 		
 	end
-end
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+
+	def is_internal_url?(link)
+		internal = false
+		if !link.nil?
+	  		link = link.split("?").first
+			temp_url = URI.parse(link)
+			if temp_url.host.nil?
+				internal = true
+			end
+		end
+		return internal
+	end
+end
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
diff --git a/site_menu_widget.gemspec b/site_menu_widget.gemspec
index 784af69..5c13eee 100644
--- a/site_menu_widget.gemspec
+++ b/site_menu_widget.gemspec
@@ -15,5 +15,4 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.license     = "MIT"
 
   s.files = Dir["{app,config,db,lib}/**/*", "MIT-LICENSE", "Rakefile", "README.rdoc"]
-  s.test_files = Dir["test/**/*"]
-end
+  s.test_files = Dir["test/**/*"]
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