I’m getting a lot of traffic lately of people searching for a tutorial on 301 redirects, especially in combination with tt_news. Therefore I’m going to explain how to make such a redirect the easiest way. In this tutorial I’m assuming you already have a website up and running with RealURL installed and you want to setup a 301 redirect for a page or news record which no longer exist.
The tt_news extension is the most popular extension of TYPO3. No wonder, since it’s very flexible and can be used for much more than just handling newsitems. In this post I’ll show you 5 things about tt_news which might be nice to know about tt_news.
By default, the tt_news pagebrowser is not very nice. Nor can it be easily styled. Inside tt_news there’s a ‘hidden’ pagebrowser which is better, and much more flexible. To activate this better pagebrowser put the following into your template Setup section:
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In this post I’m going to show you some basics of SEO in TYPO3, I will explain how you can easily handle SEO stuff within TYPO3. This is not a “best practise” nor is it a tutorial on how SEO works. But if you’re new to TYPO3, or SEO in TYPO3 you’ll find some useful things here.
A clean source code makes it easier for search engines to crawl your website. For that, you need to clean up the default HTML output done by TYPO3. Use this line of TypoScript a put it in your template Setup section: Read more…
We always use Google Analytics for our website statistics, and I always thought this was a good way to go… I just took a look at a websites who also has Webalizer running, the difference is HUGE! For example:
Google Analytics: 126 visits, 248 pageviews
Webalizer: 749 visits, 2169 pageviews
On the same day! How can this be? I read about Webalizer being unreliable due to the fact a visitor can visit from multiple IP’s (proxy) but can that explain this big of a difference? On the other hand I read about GA being unreliably due to the fact it can only track visitors with JavaScript enabled.. but how many people these days don’t have JavaScript?
When you want to use an exotic font you’ll always end up with SEO problems. Ofcourse there is SIFR but this requires flash and there are still a lot of big companies who won’t allow flash on their computers. And even though you can set alt and titles attributes for graphical headers using TypoScript, a text header is always better for SEO.
Here’s a bit of TypoScript which produces both a graphical and a text header for the same single content element. You can display the graphical header and hide the text header using css (for example: indent: -9999). This way users will experience the nice graphical header while search engines will still be able to crawl the text header. We’ll give the text-header a H2 attribute so the importants is obvious to the search engine.
I’m not about to review every book I read, but this one is a really nice addition to the usability books I posted a couple of weeks ago.
Neuro Web Design is a very easy to read psychology book which deals with questions like: Why do people decide to buy a product online? and Why do they trust the information a website provides? The book describes how the human brain works and how information and design is stored in our brain. It teaches you how to get peoples attention on a website without them even knowing you’re doing it. This book is really interesting when you want to know how the unconscious brain works and how you can activate it. Read more…
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