Hi, there. After posting this comment on the SEO Smart Links plugin Page, I was asked to copy it to the WordPress forum — I believe this it the right place? Here's the message:
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Hi, there. Now that I’ve got the plugin working, I do have a question about its behavior in terms of automatically creating links to tag archives. Here’s an example of what’s going on:
If there was a tag “red” and also a tag “red balloon” and tag “red house,” the plugin seems to only pick up the reference to the word “red,” and so when “red balloon” or “red house” appear in the post body, only the word “red” is highlighted with a link to the “red” tag archive.
I’d personally hope that “red balloon” and “red house” would take priority, because they are more specific.
Is the plugin’s logic here purposeful, or is this just something not considered? How easy would it be to have the plugin give priority to tags like “red balloon” and then only later to “red”? E.g., so that when “red balloon” appeared, the link would go to that tag archive, but a post that had “red is a color” when there’s no “red is a color” tag would just link the word “red” to the “red” tag archive.
Looking forward to your thoughts on this!
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(A quick additional note in light of the other topic here where it's suggested that we avoid linking to tags and categories: I have a fairly unique situation with the WP site where I'd be using this plugin, and it would be of particularly high value for me to be able to link to the tag archives.)
Vladimir’s WordPress Forum
Prioritizing tags for linking
13:49
3 September, 2008
Mark S. Meritt
Hi, there. After posting this comment on the SEO Smart Links plugin Page, I was asked to copy it to the WordPress forum — I believe this it the right place? Here's the message:
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Hi, there. Now that I’ve got the plugin working, I do have a question about its behavior in terms of automatically creating links to tag archives. Here’s an example of what’s going on:
If there was a tag “red” and also a tag “red balloon” and tag “red house,” the plugin seems to only pick up the reference to the word “red,” and so when “red balloon” or “red house” appear in the post body, only the word “red” is highlighted with a link to the “red” tag archive.
I’d personally hope that “red balloon” and “red house” would take priority, because they are more specific.
Is the plugin’s logic here purposeful, or is this just something not considered? How easy would it be to have the plugin give priority to tags like “red balloon” and then only later to “red”? E.g., so that when “red balloon” appeared, the link would go to that tag archive, but a post that had “red is a color” when there’s no “red is a color” tag would just link the word “red” to the “red” tag archive.
Looking forward to your thoughts on this!
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(A quick additional note in light of the other topic here where it's suggested that we avoid linking to tags and categories: I have a fairly unique situation with the WP site where I'd be using this plugin, and it would be of particularly high value for me to be able to link to the tag archives.)
Thanks for your help!