Indexing in TYPO3 – Glossary

TYPO3 Indexing

TYPO3 indexing is like creating a quick reference guide for your website. When you add new content, TYPO3 scans and catalogs it, making it easier and faster for visitors to find what they're looking for. This process helps improve your site's search functionality, ensuring users get accurate and relevant results quickly.

Indexing means that search engines capture pages of a website and add them to their search index. Only indexed pages can appear in search results. For TYPO3 websites, clean control of indexing is therefore a central part of search engine optimisation.

The process begins with crawling: a bot calls up pages and follows links. Then the search engine decides whether and how the page enters the index. Technical errors, duplicate content or blocked areas can cause important pages to be missing.

In TYPO3 you control indexing with several means. The robots meta tag with noindex excludes pages, canonical tags point to the main version, and robots.txt regulates access for crawlers. An XML sitemap helps to find all relevant pages.

Check Search Console regularly. There you see which pages are indexed, which errors occur and which pages were excluded. Especially after relaunches or restructuring, a close look is worthwhile.

Exclude pages without added value, such as search results, filter variants, internal areas or test pages. This concentrates crawlers’ attention on important content.

Load time and mobile display also influence indexing. Fast, clean pages are captured more efficiently.

For new content, a submission via Search Console can speed up inclusion.

Internally, a website’s search is a different index. It should contain only desired content.

We optimise the indexing of your TYPO3 website so that the right pages are found.

In short: TYPO3 indexing for better search engine placement.