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Recently I ran into Goldmine, a book and set of video’s that help you to create blogs that make money online using WordPress. I am currently going over this to see how I can apply these principles to my favorite CMS, TYPO3.
Do you have any experience with Goldmine? Let me know! I’m eager to hear your stories!
Well – this is what I have put in standard:
User-Agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /fileadmin/templates/
Disallow: /typo3/
Disallow: /t3lib/
Disallow: /typo3conf/
Disallow: /typo3_src/
Disallow: /typo3temp/
Disallow: /uploads/
So – what do you put in?
Weel – it took a while to achieve this through all other work, but we finished it enough to have it launced: Stylence – for internet and TYPO3 development in style! There is a lot to improve. But you have to start in order to improve right?!
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Avoiding Duplicate content while using Simulate Static (Typo3)
0 Comments | Posted by henjo in (x)html, seo, typo3
Avoiding duplicate content is still a good thing preparing your website to be launched. With typo3’s built in simulate static this appeared to be a daunting task for the home page, but once known not so hard to accomplish after all.
A little PHP and TypoScript will do the job!
You can find a perfect description on the how-to-do-it right here.
I suggest you read it, throw in the code and fix your site(s)! And then watch your traffic increase over the weeks to come… 
We all know this is considered good SEO strategy, but going around Typo3 we have to tweak it a little to do what we want it to do.
What we want to achieve is:
1. a page title (the title tag) with the name of the company & the title of the page
2. a h1 tag on the page doing exactly the same, but which is displayed as the company logo
3. make sure customers while adding content not setting default h1’s on the site (1 should be enough 
)
Getting #1 down:
- this will work out of the box, as long as you fill in the sitetitle field in the template (there are ways to alter how this is displayed of course, some using typoscript, some using php or an extention)
#1 is down..
On to the second one!
- make sure your h1 tag in your html template is marked as a typoscript object (when using TemplaVoila) or have it parsed as a marker (automaketemplate, autoparser)
- put the following code in your typoscript:
lib.logo = TEXT
lib.logo {
dataWrap = {page:title} — PutTheCompanyNameHere
}
- the logo object is placed inside the h1 tag
- give the h1 item the logo
- use CSS to have the span inside h1 not to be shown and voila!
#2 is down as well…
To make it real hard in the end – we need #3 to go down as well…
It’s a though one. Hard to understand. I hope you can follow this:
- go to your TS template
- go to the constant editor
- select content and
- set ‘default header’ to 2
…
That was it. I hope this was helpfull, if you have questions leave a comment. If you found it helpful: leave one too!
Read a good article on 404 error pages in Typo3. You can find it here: http://news.typo3.org/news/article/typo3-4-0-1-404/
In short?
- define a hidden page and call it for example ‘404′
- make sure it generates a map if using real url
- go to the install tool and set the pagenotfound handler to /404/ (or index.php?id=X, or 404.X.0.html – however you make your urls look like)
- c’est ca!
- and yes: it generates a correct header code
- and now read the article – you laziness!
I have been asked today to get fonts compiled to use with sIFR. To be honoust I didn’t know what was expected of me and after a little conversing it became clear: to use the extention gb_sifr you need to have a .swf containing all the characters of the font you want to use.
After some research I found OpensIFR; a tool to create the needed file. In less then 10 minutes time I was able to produce a list, nice looking, sIFR replaced and all. Nice.
