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Add a List of Related Articles to Your Joomla Site

Joomla Related ArticlesThis tutorial will show you how to create a list of related articles for your Joomla website.

You can see an example on the right-hand side of this site in the "Related Articles" module. Joomla is analysing the keywords in the current article and automatically listing other articles that have the most matching keywords. Related articles lists are:

  • ... good for Search Engine Optimization because the search engines can find accurate and descriptive links to other pages on your site.
  • ... good for your users because they can find other articles similar to the one they're already reading ... which is good for you because they may stay on your site longer

In order to create our list, we're going to need three extensions: a component, a module and a plugin. Let's get them up and running on our Joomla site:

  • Step 1: Click here to download the latest version of the "FJ Related" component.
  • Step 2: Click here to download the latest version of the "FJ Related Articles Plus" module.
  • Step 3: Click here to download the latest version of the "Add Keywords" plugin.
  • Step 4: Go to the administrator area of your site, Extensions >> Install / Uninstall and upload all three.
  • Step 5: Go to Extensions >> Plugin Manager and enable the "System - Add Keywords" plugin.
  • Step 6: Go to Extensions >> Module Manager and enable the "Related Articles" module.

Once you've followed those six steps, your related articles list should start working.

A note of caution: the "Add Keywords" plugin will automatically generate keywords for all your articles. You don't have to do anything. However, to reduce the amount of work your site has to do, it may not create the keywords automatically. Have patience and the links will show reasonably quickly.


 

 


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#1 mike verbeeck 2010-12-07 07:25
Hello Rod

Nice extension just that now also at the end of all my articles it shows Tags followed by several links that when pressed sends me to the search engine, this doesn´t look nice, is it possible to cancel this feature
 
 
#2 kl6H_steve 2010-12-08 19:33
Hi Mike. Sure - look inside the module and you should be able to turn those off.
 
 
#3 mike verbeeck 2010-12-10 16:31
Steve, thanks for your help. I am I am not wrong I did install FJ extension based on your advise in one of your tutorials. The FJ Related articles and blog and list component is wonderfull and I am fully using it. The FJ related article plus (which needs the Related article tags plugin) works nice but there is know way to hide the tags (I followed your suggestion but I can´t find nowhere in the module to hide them) and worse the module or the plugin authomaticly replaces the keywords in some of my articles which creates a problem as I used the keywords to make the articles show in the menus based on these keywords (thanks to the fj component I mentioned before). How is it possible it replaces my keywords?
I most probably I will joing your services for the SEO course and maybe you can help me in my list of problems with joomla although I suppose even then the amount of time you can give me is severly limited
 
 
#4 kl6H_steve 2010-12-12 11:37
Hi Mike - the keyword plugin can definitely be used to leave the existing keywords in place. For the tags, I'm pretty sure those can be fixed also. Please feel free to drop the question in our member's SEO forum and I'll bugshoot this for you.
 
 
#5 mona 2011-10-23 16:18
i downloaded and install the modules and pluggins.
It's like 7min and i haven't seen my related articles showed up in the front end. Does it take a while for it to show.
 
 
#6 iowawebco 2011-10-24 14:53
Hi Mona,

Make sure you clear your site's and browser's cache. Then refresh the page and give it another try.

Kind regards,
Nick
 
 
#7 Mona 2011-10-24 15:52
i have refreshed and clear the cache and it's still not showing. But i will still keep trying.

Thanks
 
 
#8 iowawebco 2011-10-24 19:21
Hi Mona,

Make sure that you've enabled/published the module and also assigned it to an appropriate module position and menu item.

Kind regards,
Nick
 

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