Read more... bots!
Thursday, 29 March 2007
Bots are stupids, it's not new. So here is how you can help them : use more specific hyperlinks.
The goal is to change the "Read more" to be sure bots link introduction with the full article.
The first thing to do is to edit the language file to change
DEFINE('_READ_MORE','Read more');
with
DEFINE('_READ_MORE','Read more about ');
then search in the "_linkInfo" function from the /components/com_content/content.html.php file for this line
$row->link_text = _READ_MORE;
and replace it with
$row->link_text = _READ_MORE.' "'.$row->title.'"';
This is very simple and can be very efficient.