Create Post Version for Google

  • tompkinsjournal

    (@tompkinsjournal)


    5 years, 11 months ago

    I’m looking for a way to direct Google to a longer version of a post (an excerpt and a button to original page) for clicks from Google search. Direct users would click on a link that goes directly to the source site.

    Here is an example from realclearpolitics.com:

    From Google: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2020/06/12/why_donald_trumps_juneteenth_speech_will_be_a_disaster_514108.html

    Directly: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/11/politics/donald-trump-tulsa-juneteenth-race/index.html

    Thanks

    • This topic was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Developing with WordPress topic
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  • Little Package

    (@littlepackage)

    5 years, 11 months ago

    Just an idea, you could check the referrer inside the WP loop with PHP

    if ( FALSE !== strstr( $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], 'google.com') ) {
    the_content();
} else {
    the_excerpt();
    // then maybe code for button to full content, could just load it with AJAX or JS/CSS
}

    BUT this would be unreliable for several reasons. I’m sure someone has a better solution, but this one would work at least some of the time.

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