Project

General

Profile

Actions

Bug #15128

closed

Shortcut Handling can cause SEO problems and should be improved

Added by jholzmann no-lastname-given over 18 years ago. Updated about 9 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Should have
Assignee:
-
Category:
Frontend
Target version:
-
Start date:
2005-10-20
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Estimated time:
TYPO3 Version:
4.4
PHP Version:
5.3
Tags:
Complexity:
Is Regression:
Sprint Focus:

Description

This issue is classified as "major" not for technical malfunctioning but as misconception:

- Shortcuts simply output the content of another page under its PID. Therefore it creates two identical pages available under different URLs. This is generally bad practice because search engines "punish" so called "duplicate content" with lower rankings.
Solution: Incoming visitors should be redirected to the page to which the shortcut is pointing to (this would technically apply to "hardlinked" shortcuts as well as "show first subpage"-shortcuts.

- In this context the type of redirection is crucial. As TYPO3 uses 302 redirection (temporarily moved) a site can be exposed to the hijacking phenomenon (i.e. in some search engines the content of a page is shown for the linked page instead for the linking page).
The proper redirection mode to apply is 301 (permanently moved) as it leads search engines to spider a page in a correct and reliable manner.

If you need more input just ask ( )

(issue imported from #M1692)


Files

patch_shortcut.txt (2.55 KB) patch_shortcut.txt Administrator Admin, 2006-03-24 16:07
patch_shortcut_new.txt (1.15 KB) patch_shortcut_new.txt Administrator Admin, 2006-03-24 17:14
patch_shortcut_new2.txt (837 Bytes) patch_shortcut_new2.txt Administrator Admin, 2010-11-05 17:19
T3X_shortcut_redirect-0_0_2-z-201012231239.t3x (1.46 KB) T3X_shortcut_redirect-0_0_2-z-201012231239.t3x Administrator Admin, 2010-12-23 10:40
shortcut_patch.diff (3.57 KB) shortcut_patch.diff Thorben Nissen, 2011-07-18 14:10

Related issues 3 (0 open3 closed)

Related to TYPO3 Core - Bug #23106: SimulateStatic can be exploited to make sites show up as duplicate contentRejected2010-07-05

Actions
Related to TYPO3 Core - Feature #17037: Better Shortcut for pagesClosed2007-02-24

Actions
Related to TYPO3 Core - Feature #28322: Redirect to Shortcut target pageClosed2011-07-19

Actions
Actions

Also available in: Atom PDF