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TYPO3, Marketing and the English Language

By: Virgil Huston

Sometimes coming up with a blog post topic can be hard, so this week, some odds and ends that are of interest and some things that keep rolling around in my mind.TYPO3, Marketing and the English LanguageI live in the US and use the US version of Google for searching. One thing I did while trying to come up with a blog topic, was run a search for TYPO3 on Google News. Wow, one would have thought I was using news.google.de. Out of the first 5 pages of news results (50 results), only 2 were English (one of them irrelevant as far as TYPO3 is concerned, the other a press release), the rest were...

TYPO3 Tips and Tricks - Mass Copy and Move

By: Virgil Huston

We are currently working on a web site migration to TYPO3 project that has thousands of pages. We imported the pages, but there is now a new site map, so many of the pages must be shifted around, placed in different sections, etc.

TYPO3's mass copy / move and paste functionality has made what could be an unbelievably tedious and time consuming task into a much quicker and streamlined process. For situations like this, mass copy / paste is essential, saves us time and saves the client money. It is truly a win-win situation.

I have created a short tutorial to explain the basics of this...

Add META Abstract & Author to seo_basics

By: Michael Cannon

Seo_basics is an excellent starter for rapidly implementing basic search engine optimization capabilities in TYPO3. For most, seo_basics when used with realurl for search engine friendly URLs is enough. However, for content publishers that require passing along more information about articles or publication contexts being included directly in a page, a meta abstract and author tag is needed.

After you've included seo_basics in your TYPO3 template, add the following TypoScript to the Setup box to enable meta abstract and author tags.

plugin.tx_seobasics { # Building the Abstract tag 70 =...