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Morten Kjems skrev:
> Hi. I am looking for an extension that will allow me to create a basic 
> article navigation for my pages.
> 
> Something like: << Prev |2|3|4|5| Next >> would be fine but a dropdown 
> menu with "table of contents" between "Prev" and "Next" would be nice 
> (as seen here http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=2996).
> 
> There are several extensions that does something like that but many of 
> them are limited in many ways and they all lack one important factor. 
> None of them takes SEO (Search engine optimization) into consideration.
> 
> Here a list of extensions that provides article navigation without 
> considering SEO:
> 1. "Articles", is limited in a number of ways.
> 2. "Article pages", limited - have not been updated in four years.
> 3. "Content Navigation", No documentation.
> 4. "Page Navigation", from 2004 does not seem to work with Templa Voila.
> 5. "Content Browsing" Works fine, but for some reason it does not work 
> with "page comments" (the comments just dosn't show up when the page is 
> build with "Content Browsing")
> 
> The first thing you learn when working with SEO is that the page title 
> is the most important factor when search engines are indexing a site.
> 
> The problem with with the extensions above is that the page title will 
> remain the same for all pages in the article. So will the meta tags 
> "keywords" and "description" Especially "description" is important here 
> since it will be the appetizer describing the content of your article 
> right beneath the page title in Google.
> 
> If you for example have a long article on how to install TYPO3 on a server.
> 
> The page title would properly be something like this: "Installing TYPO3 
> on a server". And that would be the page title of all sections.
> 
> But if you divide the article into sections one of the sections might be 
> about how to find a prober host. So all the content is about finding a 
> host but the page title will indicate that it is about installation. 
> This will confuse Google and the site will not rank well. If an 
> individual page title could be set For example "finding a host for 
> TYPO3" Google would have no problem in understanding the meaning of the 
> section/page. Therefor it would rank higher and more people would find 
> the relevant information.
> 
> There are two extensions that makes this possible.
> 
> 1. "Page browser". An individual page title can be set since it creates 
> navigation between pages and not content elements. The downside is that 
>  it is build around an index page that I will have no need for. Also the 
> navigation is dead simple: <- Prev | Next -> with no options to access 
> the pages in between.
> 
> 2. "Relational link elements". I am not sure about this one. It is new 
> and I find the documentation hard to understand. Please enlighten me if 
> this is what I need.
> 
> So what is the question? Is there an extension that provides article 
> navigation with a bit more options than just <- Prev | Next -> and also 
> addresses SEO.
> 
> So far the best option is the extension "Page browser" since it allows 
> individual page titles. But the navigation part is almost to simple.
> 
> All suggestions and comments are most welcome
> 
> /Morten
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