[TYPO3-english] How to position a custom page title tag near the top of my head section?

[Stephen Bungert]

I think looking at the tsref config.pageTitleFirst just sets whether the 
page title or the site title are first in the title tag generated by typo3, 
not whether or not the title tag is rendered first in the head tag.


"Harm Wester" <Harm at OOiP.nl> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:mailman.1.1279185341.4115.typo3-english at lists.typo3.org...
> OK Stephen, thanks for replying.
>
> Different SEO tools suggest that placing your <title> tag way up in your 
> HTML it has some appreciable effect.
>
> Maybe not as a major thing but I figured that since TYPO3 has this 
> config.pageTitleFirst = 1 directive, there must have been a reason to 
> build it into TYPO3.
>
> Perhaps I should not worry about this anymore.
> Thanks anyway,
> Harm Wester
>
>
>
> On 15-7-2010 10:55, Stephen Bungert wrote:
>> Who said that has an appreciable SEO effect?
>>
>> I don't believe that the title tag needs to be close in the html source 
>> to
>> the base tag. Really some SEO is ok, but don't take it to an extreme, if 
>> you
>> want better positioning in search results write good content, and enough 
>> of
>> it so that the search engines think it will benefit their users to show 
>> your
>> pages higher up in the results.
>>
>>
>> "Harm Wester"<Harm at OOiP.nl>  schrieb im Newsbeitrag
>> news:mailman.1.1279183394.1017.typo3-english at lists.typo3.org...
>>> Hello readers!
>>>
>>> I have a question about the page title and I ask your assistance in
>>> finding answers.
>>>
>>> For SEO purposes I want to create my own<title>  [...]</title>  tag.
>>> I know how to do that (config.noPageTitle = 2).
>>> After that, my own<title>  will become the first headerData element.
>>>
>>> My problem with this is that for SEO reasons I would like to have this
>>> title tag as close to my<base href>  declaration as possible.
>>> Unfortunately page.headerData starts way down.
>>>
>>> I know this combination is not supposed not work (TSRef):
>>> config.noPageTitle = 2
>>> config.pageTitleFirst = 1
>>>
>>> Can anyone inspire me for a solid solution to get my own<title>  tag as
>>> close to my<base href>  declaration as possible?
>>>
>>> I use automaketemplate by the way.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your time already!
>>> Harm Wester
>>
>>
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