JV-Relatives - Related Articles and Keyword Tagging Extension for Joomla

Additionally, hyperlink will be provided for each of the related articles, in the list. The related articles are chosen based on the keywords configured for the displayed article. JV-Relatives works for Joomla blogs and articles as well. JV-Relatives for Joomla! 1.5 works with MyBlog (Joomla Extensions from Azrul) and SEF Patch for Joomla! 1.5 as well!

JV-Relatives obtains the related articles by scanning the meta keywords of other articles in your website. JV-Relatives improves article readership and dramatically increases your ability to retain your visitors for longer periods of time, by displaying closely related articles in Joomla. As your visitors complete reading the article, they are presented with links to articles that are related to the one that is displayed!

Clubbed with the ability to display article meta tags above or below the article content, JV-Relatives gives you enormous Joomla Search Engine Optimization benefits. JV-Relatives increases user experience using related articles and enhances search engine optimization using keyword tagging!

Benefits:

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Following are the several benefits that JV-Relatives provides to your website visitors and Search Engine Optimization:

• Primary benefit of JV-Relatives is to retain the reader of the article for more time in the website, by giving him the option to read more related articles
  
• As the articles are related using keywords, the relevancy increases and hence the probability of the user continuing to read more articles increases. This ensures that more of your website articles are read by users
  
• JV-Relatives displays the related articles or posts in random order or a preset order. This ensures that articles of your website that are not read frequently have more chance to be read, as they are displayed in the related articles section
  
• JV-Relatives is NOT a component or a module, but a plugin/mambot. This does not use any database and is light weighted.
  
• JV-Relatives plugin is highly configurable at backend as well.

Features:

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• New - Caching of jv-relatives output for faster page loading, when there are too many number of articles. Works best for huge article based websites
  
• New - Ability to display related articles block anywhere inside article content by using {jvrelatives} tag (only on Joomla! 2.5)
  
• New - Multi Language Filter Setup for JV-Relatives (only on Joomla! 2.5)
  
• New - Option to display related articles in 1/2/3 columns (only on Joomla! 2.5)
  
• New - Added CSS for thumbnail positioning (only on Joomla! 2.5)
  
• New - Option to link the thumbnail (if enabled) to related item url
  
• New - Related articles title will be hidden, when there are no related articles detected
  
• New - Option to set format for time stamp for related article
  
• New option has been added with which you can display related articles which has been published anytime in the last n days from today. For example, if you set the value for this option to 60, then only those related articles which have been published in the last 60 days will be displayed. This ensures that, displayed related articles are recent ones as well!
  
• Language file for easy translation to other languages
  
• Ability and option to show thumbnail of first image in article, in related articles display
  
• Option to expand to show intro text when title is clicked
  
• Search for keywords in article title by default
  
• Enhanced UTF-8 compatibility
  
• The caption for related articles is configurable at backend
  
• The related articles will be displayed only when the full article is displayed and not when the intro alone is shown
  
• Only published articles will be displayed in related articles
  
• JV-Relatives will ensure that articles which have been saved for publishing in the future are not displayed in related articles
  
• Intro text can be displayed along with the article title in the related articles list. This is configurable.
  
• The number of characters that can be displayed for intro text is configurable
  
• The number of characters that can be displayed for article title is configurable
  
• Configurable background color of the related items block through plugin parameters section
  
• Configurable text color of the related items block through plugin parameters section
  
• Configurable width of the related items block through plugin parameters section
  
• Search will be based on keyword matches on articles
  
• Option to include static content for scanning for matching keywords is configurable at backend. On Joomla! 1.6, there is no concept of static content and hence all content can be searched in
  
• If the displayed article has no meta keys configured, then no related articles will be returned. In such a case, if the admin is logged in at frontend, then display an alert message saying that no meta key is configured for that article. This will help the admin add meta keys immediately.
  
• Number of related articles to display is configurable at backend
  
• Admin can decide, the scope of relation with other articles. In other sense, admin can decide, if articles from same category or same section or all articles in the website will be scanned for related content
  
• Option to hide related articles for articles that are displayed in front-page - Only on Joomla! 1.5
  
• Option to hide related articles for articles whose intro text is only shown
  
• XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.0 compliant
  
• Fully compatible with SEF Patch for Joomla 1.5 and Joomla 1.0 - Can fetch and display related items even when SEF Patch for Joomla is installed
  
• Fully compatible with MyBlog component from www.azrul.com on Joomla 1.5 - Can fetch and display related items even for those articles which are managed by MyBlog component
  
• Ability to sort and display related articles by title, created date, modified date or hits
  
• Ability to enable JV-Relatives only for specific sections - Only on Joomla! 1.5
  
• Ability to disable JV-Relatives for specific categories
  
• Ability to enable JV-Relatives for specific categories - Not applicable for Joomla! 1.5
  
• Option to open related article in new or existing window
  
• Add positioning capability to JV-Relatives. The related content can be displayed, beneath the article content (or) to the right of the article content at the top (or) to the left of the article content at the top
  
• Comprehensive CSS configuration has been provided for editing the background color, border color, related items display width, etc...
  
• Supports both Paid and Free versions of SEF Patch for Joomla! 1.5 from Joomlatwork.com. New option has been introduced where by, you can select if you use free version or paid version or if you don't use SEF Patch
  
• Option to display last updated time or created time of the articles when they are listed in related articles block
  
• Facility to disable JV-Relatives when pages with certain URLs are displayed.
  
• Option to display related articles of a specific author only.
  
• Option to display articles from same category, when no meta keywords are configured for the article or when related articles search does not yield anything
  
• Option to ignore meta keywords during the search for related articles
  
• Option to display number of hits, upon mouse over of the related article link
  
• Option to display number of article author/creator, upon mouse over of the related article link
  
• Option to display related articles block of display at bottom right position
  
• JV-Relatives can enhance Search Engine Optimization using tags as well. One of the newest capabilities that has been added to JV-Relatives, is its ability to display configured meta keywords of the displayed article as tags, above or below the article. The keywords can also be linked to default Joomla search, there by improving your website Search Engine Optimization

Technical Requirements

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Pricing and Support:

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JV-Relatives can be purchased in one of the two available editions - Standard and Professional


Renewals

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You can choose to pay for the purchase of this product using PayPal or 2Checkout.

• If you use PayPal, then a subscription will be created at PayPal and your purchase will be automatically renewed each year when it expires. You always have the option to cancel the subscription renewal by visiting your PayPal account anytime
  
• If you use 2Checkout, then you can decide at the time of purchase, whether you wish to automatically renew the purchase every year.