[TYPO3-project-4-3] Generate CE anchors only when necessary

Martin Kutschker masi-no at spam-typo3.org
Sun Sep 7 22:23:20 CEST 2008


Dmitry Dulepov [typo3] schrieb:
> Hi!
> 
> Martin Kutschker wrote:
>> CSC currently generates an anchor tag for all content elements it
>> renders. In an SEO article in the last t3n magazine it has been
>> suggested that you modify the TS to remove the anchors completely.
> 
> It is bad because:
> 
>> But this means you cannot link to them.
> 
> I do not see why anchors badly affect SEO. Nothing in my practice
> suggest this idea. Can you give a bit more information? I monitor SEO
> for years but never saw anything suggesting that anchors are bad.

I don't know. To be SEO is both a black art and charlatanery ;-)

>> Any comments or further ideas?
> 
> No, this is bad. It is not only TYPO3, who can link to anchors but also
> external sites. Look, for example, to w3.org. You can link directly to
> the section on each page, they specially provide anchors for this. I
> often make content elements separately specially for this purpose
> (people can link directly to interesting portion of the page).
>
> I am against removing markers. It does not add the value but removes it.

It could be optional defaulting to the current behaviour. Those who
don't like them could then still have them for those required. But it's
not very high on my priority list.

Masi


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