[TYPO3-v4] TYPO3 4.6 (Change I4199cb8c) Redirect Problem

[Ernesto Baschny [cron IT]]

Hi,

Kay Strobach schrieb am 04.12.2011 21:00:
> Mhmm duplicate content may realy be a problem :( - that's the reason for
> me liking the new behaviour :(

But what exactly is your problem with this duplicate content??

I expect that many TYPO3 pages have a "Home" which is a shortcut to the
first subpage just to serve as a portal. I've seen tons of sites build
like this, and we have build tons of sites like this too.

So with TYPO3 4.5 you (and Google & Co) would access http://example.com/
and would *get the starting page*. There would be still a
http://example.com/home.html page (with duplicate content), but Google
would most probably use the "/" URL in its search results (because
others will link to that). You just have to make sure you also link to
that intra-site (and not to /home.html).

The "penalty" from Google is that http://example.com/home.html will not
show up in the search results => which is ok, and you probably want
exactly that behavior.

Now with 4.6 we redirect from / to /home.html. This means Google will no
longer have "/" in it's index and will then use the "/home.html" URL as
the main URL.

One benefit you could argue is that your starting URL will collect page
rank (incoming links) for both URLs on a single entity, which was not
the case before. But then again, you have the "canonical" meta tag that
can solve that in our current days (was not available before).

So I will miss the old way of dealing with it. A new feature, one could
argue, that would allow to "Display this page instead" (including all
TypoScript settings), which would be a more full blown version of
"Display content of this page instead". So people could generate this
kind of duplicate content explicitly.

Cheers,
Ernesto

> Am 02.12.2011 14:29, schrieb Tobias Pierschel:
>> Hi Kay,
>>
>> thanks for your reply. If i follow your idea there is still the problem with the HMENU
>>
>> kundendomain.de (Rootpage - page contains content from startseite)
>> + Startseite
>> + Kontakt
>> + Impressum
>> + xyz
>>
>> The problem is:
>> - startseite gets the URL kundendomain.de/Startseite, now we have duplicate content
>> - and Startseite gets only the state CUR/ACT in the HMENU if the user is direkt on "Startseite"
>>
>> Or im wrong?
>>
>> Best regards
>> Tobi
>>
>>
>> On 02.12.2011 13:57, Kay Strobach wrote:
>>> Hello Tobias,
>>>
>>> you may not specify the page as shourtcut, but as page contains content
>>> from.
>>>
>>> This would solve your problem.
>>>
>>> Additionally i DO LIKE the new behaviour, as it reduces duplicate content!!!
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Kay
>>>
>>> Am 02.12.2011 11:07, schrieb Tobias Pierschel:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> the new behavior of shortcut is very anoying. Most of our projects have the following structur:
>>>>
>>>> kundendomain.de (Rootpage with shortcut to startseite)
>>>> + Startseite
>>>> + Kontakt
>>>> + Impressum
>>>> + xyz
>>>>
>>>> If the user calls kundendomain.de the URL remains kundedomain.de
>>>>
>>>> With TYPO3 the user calls kundendomain.de and the URL get kundedomain.de/startseite
>>>>
>>>> This looks very ugly. Have you ever seen that stern.de redirects to stern.de/starseite ?
>>>>
>>>> A little workaround could be, that i change the structur a little bit like this:
>>>>
>>>> kundendomain.de (Root)
>>>> + Startseite (shortcut to page kundendomain.de)
>>>> + Kontakt
>>>> + Impressum
>>>>
>>>> but now i have the problem that my mainmenu with "Startseite" never gets the status act or cur.
>>>>
>>>> How can i solve the problem?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks a lot.
>>>> Tobi
>>>
>>>
>>
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