TYPO3-Addict is your TYPO3 Blog. Bringing you tips and tricks for developing websites with TYPO3. Here you'll find TypoScript snippets, TSConfig and configuration options for your own TYPO3 website.

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.

Basic no. 1: A clean source code.

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.

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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…

As you can see TYPO3-Addict has a new design… I was bored by the old one and kept finding more and more blogs with the same design. Luckily wordpress themes are easy to change. This is just a new blog design until I find a nicer one.

Since I need to do a lot of explaining over the phone I was looking for a good remote assistance application. I’ve checked out a whole bunch of programms (like VNC but also expensive ones) but the one you’re about the see now is without any doubt the easiest one. It’s free (personal use), it’s multi platform and everyone can use it since there’s no installation required for the ‘client’ side. Just check out: www.teamviewer.com

The screenshots shows the ‘server version’, the client version is even half the size. All your client has to do is run the application and give you the unique ID and password. Is not slow either, works like a charm. Read more…