[Plugin: [pagelist]] Question — adding a text link to the end of the exceprts

There is no more-link in Pagelist plugin, because “more-link”:

• not good for SEO. Nobody will search your site with the word “more”. “rel=nofollow” will not solve it too.
• not good for usability. There is already link on title and “more-link” is an extra no needed element on page. If user cannot understand that the title is the link, than there is a problem in css styles and not in plugin’s templates.

I am trying to keep plugin’s code and list of pages on the sites light and clean. But if you still need “more-link” feature and you will add it by yourself, than you should also change the plugin version to ver.100 (for example) to avoid updating of the plugin, what could override and delete your code.

@webvitaly I think this plugin is excellent. Seems to cater for most requirements.

However I have to disagree with your points above:

• not good for SEO – Google (Penguin) is now penalizing sites for having too many internal and internal links with “targeted” anchor text. So adding a “Read more…” link will help to prevent this.
• not good for usability – There is lots of evidence to show that visitors need to be ‘told’ what to do. So a clear call to action like “Read more..” actually aids usability.

I have hard-coded a text link into your plugin code as it is essential for my purposes.

So thanks for an extremely useful addition but please reconsider the OPs request.

SEO: IMHO you misunderstood the Google recommendation. They were talking about SEO-targeted words, when the text inside the link is created with good words for search engines, but it is impossible to read for humans. And again – nobody will search your site with the word “more”.

Usability: Less elements on the page – the better.

More-link haves no context. Users, search engines or screen readers cannot tell nothing about the destination from word “more”

Check out how https://stackoverflow.com/ works without “more-link”.

Don’t forget to change the version of the plugin to “100” for avoiding plugin updates and for losing your code.

@crossway I will not add “more-link” to the core of the plugin, because IMHO “more-link” is the bad rule, which become a standard. It’s like [font-tag]. I remember the times, when web-developers were using this html: [font color="red" size="+2" family="Verdana"] it was considered to be good. IMHO the same will happen with “more-link”.

But I respect your opinion about it. And much more I respect that you did the functionality what you needed by yourself. ??

to Crossway: Did your add link “Read more” in this great plugin? Can you describe your reason? Thanks!