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Use tokens such as [node-title] for Read More links and link attributes

Posted by morningtime on May 17, 2009 at 12:03pm
Project:Read More Link (Drupal 6 and earlier)
Version:6.x-5.x-dev
Component:Miscellaneous
Category:feature request
Priority:normal
Assigned:Todd Nienkerk
Status:closed (fixed)

Issue Summary

I have a suggestion: instead of 'read more' or any custom text, lets make it more SEO friendly by adding tokens, e.g. "Read [node-title-raw] >". The result could be:

Read Ecommerce Law >
Read International Business of the [...] > (trimmed)
Read Your Momma >
etc.

I was told "Read more" links are a SEO killer. So I usually link with full titles, so I get more hits from Google.

Thanks for taking tokens into consideration. Its just an idea, maybe it doesnt fit your module.

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#1

Posted by Todd Nienkerk on May 29, 2009 at 3:41pm
Title:Read [node-title] - let's use tokens!» Use tokens such as [node-title] for Read More links and link attributes
Version:6.x-3.0» 6.x-5.x-dev

Version 6.x-5.x-RC1 (and -dev) includes some major changes in SEO behavior. For example, the title="" attribute in the link includes the node title.

I'm switching the version to 6.x-5.x-dev in the hopes that someone can help integrate tokens. I think this is a great idea, but I don't have much experience working with tokens myself.

#2

Posted by eaton on October 1, 2009 at 11:28am
Status:active» needs review

Here's a patch that does it. Just tested it for a client and it works nicely, degrades cleanly if token isn't installed.

AttachmentSize
readmore-token.patch 1.62 KB

#3

Posted by mcurry on October 3, 2009 at 3:46pm

*subscribe*

#4

Posted by PlayfulWolf on November 4, 2009 at 9:53pm

#2 works for me

#5

Posted by Todd Nienkerk on November 10, 2009 at 4:59am
Status:needs review» fixed

A slightly modified version of eaton's patch was added and committed to 6.x-5.x-dev. Thanks!

#6

Posted by Todd Nienkerk on November 10, 2009 at 5:02am
Assigned to:Anonymous» Todd Nienkerk

#7

Posted by Todd Nienkerk on November 24, 2009 at 12:02am

@eaton: The addition of Tokens has raised a performance concern. Would you mind adding your thoughts to the issue below?

#628822: Addition of Token support adds eight DB queries to each teaser

#8

Posted by System Message on December 8, 2009 at 12:10am
Status:fixed» closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

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