I was reading a post from Brain Clark on Copyblogger about the “Click Here problem” and I just had to think about Joomla.
You know the famous “Read more” line that comes up if you split your articles into an Introduction and the main part of the Article.
Reading some of the results in the post got me to change that Text on my Joomla websites..
“Here are the results:
- “Click to continue�: 8.53%
- “Continue to article�: 3.3%
- “Read moreâ€?: (-)1.8% “
Change the “Read More..” text
To have another text on your own Joomla site is not that difficult.
First Login to your Joomla Administrator Panel and select the Joomla language manager.
Then open the English file and use your Browser function “Edit” and “Search” function to find the “Read more…” line.
Now change the line to the Immortal words.. Click here to continue…, save the file and wait to see if visitors will really read more pages on your website.
Since it is a small change, it could be worth your Time to try it…
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Nice suggestion, I am actually going to try this one out.
@HDR
Would be nice to see the results.. I do like the great Japan Pictures on your website!
But what we really need is a way to customise the read more for each and every story. Why isn’t it possible to do this? I thought Joomla was supposed to be flexible…
@Simon
Joomla still is a Content Management System, with its limts…
But so is WordPress, Drupal and Typo3 among others.
One of the limits is the way that the system needs to separate the Intro text and the Main text, but if you look at WordPress, you will see the same problem.
One of the things you want to have a look at, is the read more Mambot from Run-Digital
http://www.run-digital.com/download/readmore_bot.html
What is does is replace the read more and add the Title of the Page..
The site is in German, but once you have downloaded the Plugin you could experiment a little with it :-)
P.s. reminder to myself, writing an article in English about the Read More mambot…
Thanks for the advice. I’ll need to brush up on my German if I’m to work out if the Mambot is 1.5 compatible.
I suppose another way around the problem is to simply put a text link with whatever you want to say above the fold, and then leave the read more there as a second (more mundane) link.
@Simon
I don’t think it will work on 1.5 given the Open letter to the community by Angie Radtke, who is not only the developer of the BEEZ template, but also one of the People behind http://www.run-digital.com
So for Joomla 1.5 it seems we are on a long road for improvement…
This is now possible in J1.5
Check out the Beez template and the advanced article parameters
@Elton
Luckily the Joomla developers have take the same view as Angie Radtke on this and you can now use any text jou like to use for the Read more option.
I will be writing on this and other Joomla 1.5 SEO items in the next weeks.
it looks like a great simple tip to optimize Joomla read more, i am gonna try it asap. thank you.
it looks like a great simple tip to optimize Joomla read more, i am gonna try it asap. thank you.
exactly what i was looking for. thanks.
I am new to Joomla and quite a few things look difficult to graps intuitively, so I often need to click around to find a way to do things. Your method of solving the read more issue seems simple and effective.
Great tip and thank you for sharing!
Andrew
how about “click to read more…” ? ;-)
I am not sure if someone has already pointed this out, but the code in the “Beez” template already has the “read more: Title name” coded in.
I often use the Beez HTML folder and integrate it into my template to get rid of the layout tables and add these simple nice accessibility improvements.
I am trying to add TITLE instead of “read more” (like beez html) and sometimes to set it as nofollow.
Amazing. It never occurred to me that the solution was that simple! How could it elude me for that long?! Now I know better, thanks for simplifying the solution to one of Joomla’s obvious problems.
cool tip to solve n old problem,exactly what i was
looking for. Thanks.