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- GollumX
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Ahhh... I see what you mean Christopher.
There are a number of ways to do this:
1.) Write a mambot as suggested by Daniel.
2.) Write javascript to modify the links on the fly.
3.) Modify the menu code (eg. rokmoomenu.php or splitmenu.php)
4.) Do away with the core and extended menu's and make your own manually and put them in user modules.
Numbers 1 and 3 will present you with the same problem... that of choosing which menu items you want to apply the rule to. Choosing which menu items to apply the rule to... hmmm... now I think of it, if you want to do something like this then your best bet would be to take a menu system like the Extended Menu (extensions.joomla.org) and modify its code so that you could choose in the backend which menu items to apply the rule to eg. options like item1, item2, item3 , item4 each with a checkbox where you can select whether you want to apply the rule to that item.
If you're like me and suck at coding, go for option 4
maybe daniel will put this on his list of extensions to create... the SEOmenu
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I already use extended menu, but I don't feel confident about hacking it.
So possibly option 4 is they way to go.
How would that work ? I currently use colormatic.
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- GollumX
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If you're going with option four, i suggest building a suckerfish(or son of suckerfish) menu.
Find out how to build it at A List Apart
This is a line from the example in the 'A List Apart' article with nofollow added:
<li><a href="http://www.whales.com" rel="nofollow">Whalesucker</a></li>
See also: Sons of Suckerfish
Just follow the HTML structure provided in the above articles, sticking it into a module wherever you want your menu. Create a new 'user' module after switching off the WYSIWYG editor. Most templates have an option to choose to use a 'module' for a menu in the index.php file.. usually looks like:
$menu_type = 'module' //suckerfish, moomenu or splitmenu
If you're gonna use the left menu, google for a vertical version of suckerfish. - Say no to Internet Explorer 6.
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Thanks for all your help.
Hate to sound hard to please, but suckerfish is not good for SEO as it has too much javascript.
What I need is a version of the split menu.
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- James Spencer
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Christopher Benton wrote:
Thanks for all your help.
Hate to sound hard to please, but suckerfish is not good for SEO as it has too much javascript.
What I need is a version of the split menu.
I thought suckerfish was good with SEO like MooMenu, Transmenu is nasty. - James Spencer / Developer & Support / Hull, UK
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- GollumX
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Christopher Benton wrote:
Thanks for all your help.
Hate to sound hard to please, but suckerfish is not good for SEO as it has too much javascript.
What I need is a version of the split menu.
Suckerfish is one of the best menu systems there is .. a good balance between SEO and aesthetics.
Get the 'Web Developer Toolbar' addon for Firefox and use it to switch off javascript support completely, then check the suckerfish examples posted above.. or the ones in the RT demo's.
Christopher Benton wrote:it has too much javascript.The 12 lines of javascript are not used to render the menu, only to placate IE6.
This SEO site only changed from suckerfish to a different menu system because they wanted to put the menu in the left column and probably didn't know how to build a vertical suckerfish (Not because suckerfish was bad for SEO)
Suckerfish does not use tables, but is essentially an unordered list of (potentially) your keywords. - Last Edit: 17 years 10 months ago by GollumX.
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I will look into it. Thanks James.
If that is the case how would I edit it ?
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- Daniel Chapman
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Too much JS? It only needs the JS for IE browsers.
Chris, don't you think you are taking the SEO a little bit too far to get this pedantic? Do you really think it make that much of a difference to your page rank to have a suckerfish menu?
On top of that Seo isn't really that important either. Most big sites get less than 10% of their traffic from search engines. There are much better ways to draw traffic than spening weeks trying to optimise for Google. -
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Daniel,
You probably have a fair point. I wanted to include it if it was easy to do and thought I would ask the guru's here.
I am trying to understand Joomla a lot more, and whilst I think overall it is brilliant, the downside is a simple thing like adding a no follow can be so hard.
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- GollumX
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Christopher Benton wrote:
I will look into it. Thanks James.Look at my earlier post. You would edit it by going to module manager in your admin panel and opening the module in question, then editing the HTML as usual (WYSIWYG editor off)
If that is the case how would I edit it ?
But like Daniel said, there is much more that needs doing before you go to this extent. eg. changing your content item tags from 'contentheading' to 'H1' or 'H2' etc.
Actually the very first step for Joomla SEO should be buying Steve's SEO for Joomla book at www.alledia.com - Say no to Internet Explorer 6.
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