No one knows exactly how Google ranking features work. Google keeps it hidden for obvious reasons: Google wants to maintain better search relevancy and prevent optimizers from moving sites to a higher position in search results.

Several months ago I redesigned several of our sites. Yesterday I checked and found that these sites are on the top position in Google for some popular search terms. I did not expect that really. The content there is good and it is not changed much. However after the redesign site has moved up.

I think the reason is...

As I wrote earlier, I spend a lot of time doing development for TYPO3 extensions. In particular I spent a lot of time on the new feature of the mnogosearch TYPO3 extension (version 2.2). The feature is an advanced search form. Read more inside.

Today I discovered a reason why one my TYPO3 web sites were slower than it could be. The reason comes from...

Yesterday evening I committed a fix for the Memcached cache backend to TYPO3 4.3. If you work with current trunk version of TYPO3, you can enable this backend and enjoy speed improvements.

Types of caches in TYPO3

There are three different caches in TYPO3 4.3:

cache_hashThis cache saves data produced by some TYPO3 functions, mainly by substituteMarkerArrayCached. This cache can be very large, it is used only if page is not cached and it does not make sense to enable Memcached for this cache. Database or file will work...

TYPO3 4.3 comes with a new caching framework (thanks to FLOW3 team for developing it and Ingo Renner for porting it back to TYPO3 4.x). One of nice features of this framework is that you can freely choose where you want to cache various parts of system data. For example, you can post data produced by extensions in the database, pages in memory and TypoScript templates on the file system. This all is very flexible and transparent for any TYPO3 component. There are also other goodies in the new caching system, which I will cover soon in other...

Today I got news about TYPO3 certification. Certification team seems to come with the first simple certification programme named "TYPO3 integrator".

The programme will certify people who build web sites using TYPO3. It does not cover physical file installation on the disk using *nix shell but it does cover the Install tool in 1-2-3 and normal modes, which is a good thing to certify. Many people lack knowledge of Install tool, which is essential when troubleshooting problems.

Also this certification is not for extension developers...

I am very excited to announce a release of mnoGoSearch 2.1.0. This version has many improvements and bug fixes.

Firsts, it now has a new manual, which I think is better than the old one.

Secondly, there is a full support for indexing files now. And together with this feature comes mnoGoSearch default template, which is now equipped with file icons for some document types:

Support for indexing OpenOffice document is provided through a small helper inside the extension. Other documents will need appropriate programs installed on the...