[TYPO3-ttnews] tt-news items and index search

[Oliver Rowlands]

Hi Otto,

When you say that indexed search shows many results for the same article 
is that because it is listing each article's SINGLE page as well as the 
pages which contain LIST or LATEST display modes? If this is the case 
then prevent the LIST and LATEST pages from being indexed by using the 
'No search' checkbox in the page properties of each of those pages.

Or can your articles be viewed on multiple SINGLE pages? If this the 
case then the problem comes from your setup, each article should only be 
accessible through one SINGLE page. You will be penalised for duplicate 
content by search engines if this is not done.

You can always fall back on tt_news's SEARCH display mode, the down side 
being that it will not rank the results by relevance so the quality of 
the search results will not be as good.

Hope this helps,

Oliver

otto at webspinnerij.nl wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I use tt-news quite extensively.
> I have many news items in a lot of different categories, stored in different
> sys-maps.
> I need a search functionality on the site. I thought to use indexed search.
> 
> The problem is that because of all the different pages, indexed search shows
> many results for same article.
> So I switched off the function to index a page ones it is showed.
> I tried to configure the crawler to index the news items in the sys-maps.
> 
> This is where it goes wrong. I cannot index only the articles.
> What is the best solution?
> Or should I use a different search strategy?
> 
> Regards Otto
> 
> 


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