For Editors

Page Title

The page title field is used for several purposes. From a SEO perspective it is mainly used to define the default URL segment and as a fallback title, if you don't set a specific SEO title. More information about the usage of the title fields can be found at Title for search engines.

URL Segment (slug)

The URL segment is the part of the URL the user enters to access your page. Depending on your use case URLs have to fulfill certain criteria.

By default the URL segment is based on the page tree and page title, but you can override this and set it yourself.

If you want to optimize your page for search engines, it is recommended to have at least the keyword you want to be found on in your URL segment. Please make sure to check other best practices with your SEO specialist.

Title for search engines

The Title for search engines field is used for the <title>...</title> tag of your web page. This title is used in the search results of search engines. There are some best practices for the value of this field.

• Use a speaking title, which targets your audience
• If possible, use the keywords you want to be found on in the title
• Please make sure your title fits in a Google Snippet. You can use 3rd party extensions to help you with this.

When no value for the Title for search engines field is defined, it will have a fallback to the field Page title. It will show the page title in the search results in that case.

The title can have the name of the site as a prefix or suffix. The behaviour of this can be defined by an integrator. By default the title will have the name of the site as a suffix, separated by a dash.

Description

The description field is important for SEO purposes. This field is used to instruct search engines to use this text to show as a teaser of your page in the search result snippets. With this description, you can give the user a clear overview of the topic of this page.

Index this page

Defines whether the page should be indexed by a search engine or not. Disabling indexing also removes the page from the XML sitemap.

Follow this page

Defines whether search engines should follow the links on this page.

Canonical link

You want to avoid duplicate content because your ranking can suffer from this. If you have duplicate content, you have to link to the origin of the content. This can be an internal page or an external page. You can use the default link wizard of TYPO3 to select the destination. If you don't set a canonical link yourself, TYPO3 will generate a link to the current page.

Change frequency

This field is used in the XML sitemap and will give search engines a hint how often the content of your page is likely to change. For example: News in an archive are “never” updated, while your home page might get “weekly” updates.

Priority

The priority is also used in the XML sitemap. Priority allows you to define how important the page is compared to other pages on your site. The priority is stated in a value from 0 to 1. Your most important pages can get an higher priority as other pages. This value does not affect how important your pages are compared to pages of other websites. All pages and records get a priority of 0.5 by default.

Title

This title can be specified to be shown as the title of the snippet preview when your page is shared on the social network. You only have to fill this field when you want a different title as in the search results.

Description

Used to adjust the description of the preview snippet when your page is shared at a social network. You only have to fill this field when you want a different description as the description in the search results.

Image

You can specify the image that should be shown when your page is shared on a social network. Please be aware that the different social networks need specific dimensions for an image. TYPO3 ships with the most used dimension. If you want to have more dimensions, please let your integrator add more dimensions.