EXT: TEQneers SEO Enhancements¶

What does it do?¶

This extensions will handle multiple page metatags and pagetitle manipulations in TYPO3. It's a replacement and major improvement for the “metatags” extension.

The following features are supported:

• Indexed XML sitemap for Google and other search engines (with support for ALL extensions, pibase and extbase, not only tt_news)

• Real sitemap builder via TYPO3 scheduler

• Metatags

  • Manipulation of Metatags via stdWrap (Beta)
  • Automatic fetching metatags from tt_news (single-display module)

• Pagetitle manipulations

  Manipulation of pagetitle via stdWrap (Beta)

• Multi-language and/or multi-tree TYPO3 installations

• Backend modules:

  • SEO page module
  • SEO control center module
  • SEO sitemap module

The following metatags are supported:

• Language (auto-detected)
• Description
• Keyword
• Copyright information
• Reply-To E-Mail-Address
• Author and publisher
• Rating and distribution
• Revisit
• Geo-location information
• Searchengine Crawler orders
• Google Analytics (with anonymize IP and download link tracking, asynchronous implementation since 4.0)
• Piwik integration (asynchronous implementation since 4.0)
• Google, MSN, Yahoo and WebOfTrust Verification
• Google+ Direct Connect
• Canonical URL (Custom URL or autogenerated to current page)
• IE Compatibility-Mode
• Google Expire Date
• Index, up, prev und next link-metatags
• P3P-HTTP-Headers

The following pagetitle transformations are supported:

• Prefix and suffix (inheritable)
• Absolute pagetitle without any prefix and suffix
• Sitetitle glue options
• Sitetile positon

Screenshots¶

Illustration 1: TYPO3 Metatag-Constants

Illustration 2: TYPO3 Crawler-Constants

Illustration 3: SEO Services (eg. verification codes)

Illustration 4: SEO-pagesettings in TYPO3

Illustration 5: SEO-page module in TYPO3

Illustration 6: SEO-page module in TYPO3

Illustration 7: SEO-page module in TYPO3

Illustration 8: SEO-sitemap module in TYPO3

Installation¶

• Install Extension via Extension Manager.
• Include “static extension template” (Template → Info/Modify → Edit the whole template record → “Include static (from extensions):” and select “TEQneers SEO”)
• Modify your metatags via constants editor

Indexed Sitemap¶

The sitemap will automatically collect all cacheable sites and provides a xml- and plaintext-output – that's why it is “indexed”.

The XML-Sitemap (eg. for Google) is available with: index.php?type=841132

The TXT-Sitemap is available with: index.php?type=841131

If you have more than one tree in your TYPO3 you will have to add the root-PID to your Sitemap, eg:

Tree #1 with PID 123: index.php?id=123&type=841132

Tree #2 with PID 234: index.php?id=234&type=841132

If you have also enabled “sitemap_ObeySysLanguage” in the extension configuration you also have to add the language-id for your Sitemap - eg. for seperated language-domain eg. example.com (only english sites) and example.de (only german sites).

The sitemap will index ALL cacheable pages with full extension support (like tt_news and all other “clean” extensions).

If your extension doesn't use cHash or use no_cache the outwill WILL NOT included in the sitemap (and also will not be indexed by index_search).

Also the sitemap indexes all generated “typolink” (BETA).

Warning:

The TQ Seo Sitemap relies on the TYPO3 caching system. If any extension (or configuration – eg. RealURL configuration) break the caching system and makes TSFE non-cacheable (TSFE->no_cache) the sites will NOT INDEXED!

Make sure no extension will set no_cache and the cHash of your link is valid. This is the only way to get only valid URLs into your sitemap.

This sitemap supports both, pibase- and extbase-Extensions without problems. However the developer must take care of the cHash-handling.

Robots.txt¶

The robots.txt can be gerated with type 841133, eg.:

index.php?type=841133

If possible and enabled the robots.txt buidler will automatically add the link to the sitemap generator or the static sitemap files (will require TYPO3 Scheduler task to generate the static sitemap).

Metatags¶

UserAgent¶

Crawler¶

Services¶

Social¶

Pagetitle¶

Sitemap¶

SEO Page Module (Website → SEO)¶

The SEO page module provies an overview for all seo relevant informations (including possibility to edit this informations on click).

SEO Control Center (SEO → Control Center)¶

The SEO control center lists all your root-pages in your TYPO3 installation. For each root page you can control specific sitemap and robots.txt settings.

SEO Sitemap (SEO → Sitemap)¶

The SEO sitemap module provides access to the indexed sitemap list.

Metatags¶

Pagetitle¶

Customization codes (fast/simple)¶

You can add additional javascript code to the default Google Analytics and/or Piwik integration.

Template customization (advanced)¶

The Google Analytics and Piwik integration is done by using a FLUIDTEMPLATE object in TypoScript. If you don't like the integration and want to modify the integration feel free to use your own templates and pass your own variables to FLUIDTEMPLATE.

TQ SEO Cleanup¶

TQ SEO sitemap.txt builder¶

TQ SEO sitemap.xml builder¶

General¶

Problem: Is this extension mutli-language and/or multi-tree ready?

Solution: Check it out, there should be no problems at all with multi-language multi-tree TYPO3-installations.

Problem: In my TYPO3 the feature XYZ of this extension doesn't work. What's wrong?

Solution: The tq_seo-Extension was carefully written. We're at TEQneers what to deliver correct pages and extensions will the power of the TYPO3 caching system (and those extensions are the fastest). For some features (eg. sitemap, canonical-tag) we have to trust in the caching-system – it's the only way to make sure that we don't deliver wrong informations to our search engines. If our extension doesn't work correct in your TYPO3 installation maybe there is something wrong – maybe the configuration, your setupTS or one of your extension.

Indexed Sitemap¶

Problem: The sitemap is empy.

Solution: Check if you created the “tx_tqseo_sitemap_pages” database-table! We're using InnoDB as MySQL-Engine so you have to make sure that you have InnoDB-Support in your Hosting-Account (if not you should switch your hoster, InnoDB is a Standard-Feature in MySQL). As with 2.0.1 there is an error-message if the table doesn't exist.

Problem: My sitemap is still empty, but the database is ok.

Solution: Maybe you disabled the whole TYPO3 cache (config.no_cache=1 or somehthing else)? Enable the cache – this will also speed up your TYPO3 installation.

Problem: The generated pages from my extension are not included in the sitemap!

Solution: You have to make sure that all generated pages are cacheable. The extension has to pass a valid cHash-token!

Problem: There is only one site in my XML-Sitemap, what's wrong? In the sitemap-database are thousands of pages.

Solution: That's correct. TQ_Seo always uses “Sitemap Groups” (as defined in http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php#index), each group can contain about 50.000 pages/urls so if we have more than 50.000 urls we have to use sitemap groups. Visit the url defined in the LOC-tag and you will see that the sub-sitemap will contain all your stored URLs.

Problem: The generated pages from my extension still are not included in the sitemap!

Solution: You've enabled RealURL? Please check the RealURL configuration if you have specified values that are not passed with your url. All variables that are not passed with the url will result in a NO-CACHE.

Problem: The sitemap is still not working! No page is indexed and the table tx_tqseo_sitemap_pages is empty!

Solution: Double check your installation and disable all third- party extensions, make sure that no extension disables the TYPO3-cache! RealUrl (if properly configured) and TemplaVoila are working wonderfull with TQ Seo Sitemap but some old extensions might break the TYPO3 caching system and you will not notice it. Our sitemap indexer relies on the indexing system to make sure that only valid urls are stored and delivered to the search engines like google.

Problem: I want to limit each sitemap to it's domain (eg. example.com for english pages, example.de for german pages). Is this possible?

Solution: Yes, just enable the “Enable language-domain support” in seo control center in your website/rootpage settings.(replaces the old extension configuration sitemap_ObeySysLanguage and TypoScript constants setting).

Problem: My tt_news entries are not indexed, what's wrong?

Solution: You're using realurl? Then check your realurl_conf.php. Errors (or misconfiguration) in the realurl-configuration will produce uncacheable sites (and you will not notice it). The most common issue is the configuration of the parameter “tx_ttnews[swords]” in the postVarSets-area. Remove it, you don't need it.

Others¶

Problem: I want to customize my google Analytics and/or piwik integration.

Solution: You can modify the code of the google analytics and piwiki integration with typoscript. Feel free to use plugin.tq_seo.services.googleAnalytics.customizationCode (STDWRAP) or plugin.tq_seo.services.piwik.customizationCode (STDWRAP). Also you can modify the FLUIDTEMPLATE and assign custom variables.

Version 5.0¶

• Added possibility to manipulate/overwrite “sitetitle” (from TS-Setup- Template)
• Implemented seo page-module
• Added support for Google+ Direct Connect
• Impoved ui (backend modules)
• Fixed several bugs

Version 4.0¶

• Google Analytics and Piwik uses now asynchronous implementation
• Some settings (eg. language-lock for sitemap) are moved to SEO → “Contol Center”
• Implemented sitemap and control center as backend module
• Implemented robots.txt-support

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