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TYPO3 4.2 E-Commerce

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TYPO3 4.2 E-Commerce

Overview of this book

The popularity of online shopping has increased drastically over the past few years. TYPO3 is fully equipped to meet all the challenges of modern electronic commerce. TYPO3 can be enlarged afrom a pure content-based online catalog to a fully-grown shop system with a variety of extensions. It may be easy to plan a website but when it comes to implementing the design and developing a successful e-commerce site, you might come across a lot of difficulties.This book teaches all the aspects of quickly setting up a feature-packed, easy-to-build e-commerce site—from basic installation and configuration of TYPO3 through adding features step-by-step to an example website. It demonstrates the setting up of an online TYPO3 e-commerce site from scratch and walks you through lucrative tips on attracting customers and maximizing profit.This book takes you through the creation of an appealing online shop in steps. It starts with the basics of TYPO3 and TYPO3 installation and shows how to use its standard features to begin construction of an online shop. It will help you improve the selling interface and handling of orders with new modules and other customizations. It discusses various template configurations and plugins. You will learn how to build attractive product catalogs, profiles for registered and unregistered users, and online shop SEO. You will also learn to provide effective search facilities for systematic navigation of your site. Further, various modules for payment and delivery will be discussed. Finally, you will learn how to manage and market your site.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
TYPO3 4.2 E-Commerce
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Preface

Chapter 9. Online Shop SEO Development

This chapter covers online shop web page optimization corresponding to SEO (Search engine optimization) requirements and how to increase prominence within search results. Several things determine the effectiveness of SEO (that is, how to ensure that your web page would be easy to find on the Internet); nevertheless there are not many basic principles of SEO. It is possible to achieve good results by using just a few simple techniques.

The topics covered in this chapter are:

  • Title tags

  • Keyword selection

  • Page content and description

  • Anchor text

  • Some extensions for SEO

By the end of this chapter, you should know how to structure content and modify web page source for powerful SEO results.

The importance of SEO

As important as it is to create a visually attractive web page with all the necessary functions that allow finding information about the company—in our case, where to buy berries—it is important to take some steps so that the online shop can be found on the...