Recommended Articles
- Applies to:
- MindTouch (current)
- Role required:
- Author
Recommend Articles logic
The goal of showing recommended articles at the bottom of each article page is to provide relevant information based on your user's interests.
- Expert uses tags and recent user activity to rank each article on your site in relation to the current article being viewed.
- Recommended Articles also displays up to 150 characters of the Page Summary.
- When your site reaches 100,000+ pages, Expert will stop relating your articles, and will continue to display Related Articles as indexed prior to your site reaching 100,000 pages.
Because the search is inclusive, articles cannot be removed from Recommended Articles results. One option is to hide the Recommended Articles section, either at the page or site level.
How Tags affect Recommended Articles
Expert monitors your tags, and gives greater weight to tags used in only a few articles than to tags that are widely used throughout your site. To provide faster processing time, tags that are used in more than one third of your articles are not considered.
Example: If you have 5 articles that share the same tag, and 2 of those articles also share another tag, the 2 articles with the more unique tag relation will be the primary recommendations.
Ranking also depends on shared tags and previously visited pages. The more tags articles share, the more likely those articles will be recommended for each other.
When tags are added to an article, there is a 15-30 second delay before recommended articles are updated. These times can vary slightly depending on the size of your site, and Anonymous users may not see instantaneous changes due to anonymous caching.
Hide summaries from Recommended Articles
To hide the Page Summary from your Recommended Articles, add the following CSS to your Control Panel:
.mt-related-listing-link-overview {
display: none;
}