http://groups.drupal.org/search-engine-optimization Discussing optimizing Drupal sites for search engine visibility and ranking en http://groups.drupal.org/node/23483 <p>After seeing a <a href="http://websiteoptimizer.contentrobot.com/" rel="nofollow">Google Website Optimizer module</a> for WordPress I started looking for a similar module for Drupal. I came across the following <a href="http://drupal.org/project/google_website_optimizer" rel="nofollow">Google Website Optimizer module</a>. It is useful for multivariate testing. I was wondering what other SEOs/Interactive Designers are using for optimizing website content and improving website usability? Are there any other modules that offer similar or added benefits?</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/23483#comments A/B split testing Google Website Optimizer multivariate testing Search Engine Optimization Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:34:52 +0000 guysaban 23483 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/23389 <p>My new SEO Friend modules is available at:</p> <p><a href="http://drupal.org/project/seo_friend" title="http://drupal.org/project/seo_friend">http://drupal.org/project/seo_friend</a></p> <p>The module is meant to be used with other Drupal SEO modules, particularly (for now) nodewords, nodewords_bypath, page_title, and pathauto.</p> <p>I would love feedback and suggestions for new features.</p> <p>Thanks,<br /> Kristen</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/23389#comments administration module development modules search engine optimization SEO Search Engine Optimization Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:48:45 +0000 kepol 23389 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/23037 <p>Hi,<br /> I am looking for someone to develop a search page that combines an exposed taxonomy filter approach (checkboxes and radios rather than dropdowns) with the Apache-Solr Keyword (and resultant faceted search setup) together with Saved Searches.<br /> Please contact me for more information.<br /> Many thanks<br /> Glen Moore</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> contract work search Search Engine Optimization Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:50:02 +0000 Glenmoore 23037 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/22946 <p>Hello,</p> <p>I am using <a href="http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html" rel="nofollow">Xenu's Link Sleuth</a> (PageRank 7) to generate a list of URLs for a drupal site (and also find all the broken links). I am migrating a site to Drupal CMS and need to map the old URLs to the new URLs using a 301 redirect to move over all the SEO ranking values to the new URLs. Using Xenu's Link Sleuth has always been helpful but I was really surprised when I saw hundreds upon hundreds of URLs that are dynamically generated by Drupal.</p> <p>Is there anyway to get a shorter list of the URL for 301 redirect purposes. I know I could use URL alias to list all the aliased URLs but that would not catch all the non-aliased paths.</p> <p>All the best,<br /> Guy Saban</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/22946#comments 301 redirect migrate site url list Search Engine Optimization Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:52:03 +0000 guysaban 22946 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/22657 <p>We are looking for someone who is interested in charting a new bold course on the internet for how Internet Search and Social Networking is done. This person will be a practice leader who takes the industry's best practices to new levels of excellence. Through these efforts this person will build a Search &amp; Social Networking service line with its own P&amp;L in Scottsdale, AZ.</p> <p>Skills &amp; Requirements·<br /> Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience ·<br /> Experience in the ability to be self sufficient in delivery these services, and in leading a team to achieve these objectives·<br /> Managed a $1M+ Search practice·<br /> Be recognized as an industry expert because your work has been published on the internet (or in print) and/or been the featured speaker at a conference.·<br /> Minimum of 4 years of experience in search e marketing SEO &amp; SEM (ie: experience with bid monitoring and adjustment of search media campaigns across multiple sites, defining terms, highly relevant and targeted to clients' products and/or services.) ·<br /> Experience with internal site visitor reporting/tracking programs or software. ·<br /> Strong Excel skills ·<br /> Ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment, under tight deadlines ·<br /> Strong analytical skills ·<br /> Strong verbal and written communication skills ·<br /> Detail-oriented and organized ·<br /> Exhibit enthusiasm, passion, creativity and commitment</p> <p>This is a great opportunity with one of the largest marketing firms in the nation, and voted "Top Places to Work in AZ."<br /> This position pays up to $90k per year.</p> <p>Please contact:<br /> Billy Marsh- Excecutive Recruiter<br /> Phone: 602-262-8324<br /> E-mail: <a href="mailto:bmarsh@at-tech.com">bmarsh@at-tech.com</a></p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> Drupal Jobs - Developer Needed Search Engine Optimization Wed, 27 May 2009 23:30:24 +0000 bmarsh 22657 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/22317 <p>There is an SEO issue with Drupal's forums similar to the <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/node/19750">SEO problem with Drupal views</a> where pages that don't exist still send a <i>200 OK</i> header.</p> <p>This is the correct URL of a Drupal forum:<br /> <b>drupal.org/forum/1</b></p> <p>This non-existant URL also sends a <i>200 OK</i> header when it should send a <i>404 Not Found</i> header:<br /> <b>drupal.org/forum/1/asdf.html</b></p> <p>An example of where this might cause problems is when you take a non-Drupal forum and convert it to a Drupal forum that has different URLs.</p> <p>Does anyone know how to fix it so that Drupal sends 404 headers when trying to access a forum URL that doesn't exist?</p> <p>--<br /> <a href="http://tips.webdesign10.com/drupal-tutorials">My Drupal Tutorials</a></p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/22317#comments forum module SEO Search Engine Optimization Mon, 18 May 2009 16:12:14 +0000 J. Cohen 22317 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/22088 <p>Hello recently I am hectic about my drupal sites seo.</p> <p>Recently I have created a block in my site with exposed filters and I noticed that googlebot is trying all the filters and sometimes giving me...</p> <p>"Message Illegal choice in field_age_value_many_to_one element"</p> <p>should i block the spider crawl those filters?</p> <p>Thanks</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/22088#comments views module Search Engine Optimization Sun, 10 May 2009 04:39:05 +0000 halisemre 22088 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/21219 <p>Hello all.</p> <p>I recently did a post on a number of things I do to Drupal websites to help with SEO. I hope it helps people who are looking for this kind of stuff, and let me know if there's anything you feel should be addressed.</p> <p><a href="http://www.dandurick.com/blog/guide-drupal-seo" rel="nofollow">A Guide to Drupal SEO</a></p> <p>Take care.<br /> Dan</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/21219#comments SEO Search Engine Optimization Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:15:18 +0000 AgentD 21219 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/21073 <p>Is it possible to set an entire block region to "nofollow" for the purpose of pagerank sculpting? For example, take the use of a tagadelic tag cloud block on a website. If I wanted all those links to be nofollow automatically, how would I do that?</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/21073#comments block settings blocks nofollow pagerank SEO Search Engine Optimization Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:09:57 +0000 calshei1 21073 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/20667 <p>I'm curious what everyone is for pagerank sculpting overall. There doesn't seem to be a clear, straightforward way to add nofollow attributes to links in primary/secondary links to such pages as /contact et cetera... What's everyone doing?</p> <p>-=- christopher</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/20667#comments pagerank SEO Search Engine Optimization Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:51:53 +0000 purrin 20667 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/19750 <p>Here's an SEO issue with the Views module. I haven't found a solution yet.</p> <p>Default views in the Views 2 Module have an SEO issue. They don't send 404 errors when a non-existent URL is requested.</p> <p>For example, if your view is located at<br /> <b>example.com/articles</b></p> <p>and your page is at:<br /> <b>example.com/articles/my-page</b></p> <p>but you accidentally link to:<br /> <b>example.com/articles/mypage</b></p> <p>Drupal sends a "200 OK" header and the content from:<br /> <b>example.com/articles</b></p> <p>instead of sending a 404 header/page.</p> <p>This could be a problem on large Drupal sites where the view has many URLs of pagination such as:<br /> <b>example.com/articles/mypage?page=123</b><br /> (The same content as <b>example.com/articles</b>,<b>example.com/articles/mypage</b>, <b>example.com/articles/mypage?page=1</b>, etc.)</p> <p>Is there a way to fix that in the Views settings or should I add an issue to the Views module?</p> <p>Originally posted <a href="http://drupal.org/node/392106">here</a>.</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/19750#comments paths SEO views Search Engine Optimization Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:23:21 +0000 J. Cohen 19750 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/19745 <p>I mentioned <a href="http://drupal.org/project/swfaddress" rel="nofollow">SWFAddress</a> in the SEO BoF at DC DrupalCON 2009.</p> <blockquote><p>This allows you to build full Flash experience sites with support for deep-linking and browser history while still maintaining a full HTML version for screen readers, search engines, and other non-traditional browsers. If you are building Flash sites on top of Drupal, you will probably also want to check out the Services and AMFPHP modules.</p></blockquote> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/19745#comments flash SEO Search Engine Optimization Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:54:17 +0000 mitchell 19745 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/19169 <p>I just came across an article on <a href="http://www.websitemagazine.com" title="www.websitemagazine.com">www.websitemagazine.com</a> about <a href="http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/archive/2009/02/13/new-canonical-link-tag-amp-duplicate-content.aspx" rel="nofollow">&lt;link&gt; tags</a> being used to minimize the problem of duplicate content. Anyone know of a module or manageable techinique to add URL information to the header within a &lt;link&gt; tag?</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/19169#comments duplicate content SEO Search Engine Optimization Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:32:12 +0000 guysaban 19169 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/18729 <p>I was just reading <a href="http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/suture/" rel="nofollow">Suture CSS or JavaScript Files to Reduce HTTP Requests</a> which describes a technique for reducing HTTP requests by combining JavaScript and CSS files. Is there any such functionality or module for Drupal that could make this easy for non-developers? <i>If I am posting to the wrong group please let me know if there a more appropriate group for this subject.</i></p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/18729#comments HTTP load time SEO Search Engine Optimization Sun, 01 Feb 2009 08:40:35 +0000 guysaban 18729 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/18313 <p>I'm wondering if anyone would like to share your fundamental setup of a new Adsense campaign. When you evaluate a client, do you typically guide them to focus on local areas and more specific keywords? Do you run multiple campaigns, broad keywords with lower CPC vs specific keywords with higher CPC?</p> <p>Just looking for feedback for those who want to share. Thanks!</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/18313#comments seo adsense campaigns client discovery Search Engine Optimization Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:15:45 +0000 mattmm 18313 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/18303 <p>One feature I would like to have (I think!) is that I would like the URLs to any internal pages that are outlawed in robots.txt to be nofollowed.</p> <p>I'm not sure what the best way would be to do this, but I would like to know!</p> <p>Peter</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/18303#comments nofollow spam pagerank robots.txt Search Engine Optimization Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:19:16 +0000 pedrochristopher@drupal.org 18303 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/18081 <p>We've been discussing the need for unique strings of text for unique links in the new WCAG 2.0 standards. But Cliff brought up that there are some <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/node/17627#comment-62013" rel="nofollow">SEO issues involved in this as well</a>. So how do we get more meaningful links coming from our list/view pages so that instead of having 100 links pointing to your page say "Read more" and we have more using a related string, like "Accessible Themes for Drupal".</p> <p>As it's been said many times before, there are good SEO reasons to improve a sites accessibility. Google is after all the biggest, richest &amp; most powerful visually impaired internet user.</p> <p>Would love to have some feedback here (or on the <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/node/17627" rel="nofollow">original post about unique strings</a>).</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/18081#comments accessibility search engine optimization usability wcag Search Engine Optimization Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:52:14 +0000 m.gifford 18081 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/17898 <p>I am redesigning my site using Drupal and am using pathauto, pagetitle, menu breadcrumb, global redirect, and other modules. I am quite new to Drupal and still getting my bearings.</p> <p>Before I go live, I thought it would be helpful to decide on one pattern that would make sense to human readers and take into account SEO. I've seen pieces of this addressed, but haven't found anything that seems to cover the whole picture.</p> <p>As I understand it, there are a number of places where one might have identical, or nearly identical, content when using these modules. Each location represents an opportunity for using and reinforcing keywords:</p> <ul> <li>URL</li> <li>Page title</li> <li>Menu</li> <li>Breadcrumb</li> <li>H1 title at top of page (seems to be called just "Title") </li> <li>Meta description (I'll include this for completeness, but think it stands more on its own in terms being generated separately and manually)</li> </ul> <p>In addition, if I understand correctly, one or more of these could be derived from a taxonomy vocabulary.</p> <p>Are there any best practices or favorite patterns for which of these should be the same and which should be different?</p> <p>I'd appreciate any help. Also, in my particular case the content is on about 30 relatively static pages describing my services, in addition to a blog, so I don't have to worry about hundreds of product pages.</p> <p>Thanks in advance.</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/17898#comments SEO Search Engine Optimization Sat, 03 Jan 2009 14:52:26 +0000 jsibley 17898 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/17698 <p>I am almost done with the development of a social business directory, and would love to start the SEO side of things, in which I am not well versed at.</p> <p>The website structure is divided into 3 sections: Business Directory | Events | Community</p> <p><strong>Business Directory</strong> content is added by the following node types:</p> <ol> <li>Entertainment</li> <li>Health</li> <li>Religious</li> <li>Restaurant</li> <li>Service</li> <li>Shop</li> <li>Website</li> </ol> <p><strong>Events</strong> content:</p> <ol> <li>Event</li> </ol> <p><strong>Community</strong> Content:</p> <ol> <li>group</li> <li>group post</li> <li>album (photos)</li> <li>question (answers)</li> <li>blogs </li> <li>userprofile (advanced profile kit)</li> <li>usernode</li> </ol> <p>Other node types are:</p> <p>FAQ<br /> newsletter</p> <p><strong>THE TAXONOMY</strong></p> <p>The primary taxonomy (VID 1) is "location", a multi-level taxonomy, which is a prerequisite of business directory nodes, events, groups, and userprofiles.<br /> Then there is business category (VID 2), multi-level as well, also pre requisite of business directory nodes.</p> <p>There is also "group type" (VID 3), "event type" (VID 4) prerequisites of groups and events respectively.</p> <p>Now that we have a clear picture of the site structure, the problem is how do I configure SEO friendly pathautos.</p> <p>I have the following landing pages, for the site sub sections, thanks to panels and views.</p> <p>/directory<br /> /community<br /> /events</p> <p>I was thinking of 2 possible url aliases. First one being short and precise, containing the site sub-section/nodetype/title. Or the second one which is more descriptive containing site sub-section/nodetype/location-taxonomy/business-type-taxonomy/title</p> <p>/directory/nodetype/[title]<br /> or<br /> /directory/nodetype/[location-raw-cat]/business-type-raw-cat/title</p> <p>/community/[nodetype/[title]<br /> or<br /> /community/nodetype/location-raw-cat/title</p> <p>/events/[title]<br /> or<br /> /events/location/event-type/date/title</p> <p>Then there is the problem of users pathauto variables. I have the following node types, in addition to the default "user" variable, that link to a user's page</p> <p>userprofile<br /> usernode<br /> bio</p> <p>What will be the most ideal, SEO friendly, pathauto settings for these? Will they be treated as repeated content by search engines?</p> <p>I would love the alias to user profiles to be something like<br /> /community/people/username</p> <p>I hope I have presented my case in a clear and precise way, and hope to get some</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/17698#comments pathauto SEO Technical Specification Business Directory Search Engine Optimization Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:01:22 +0000 droople 17698 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/17616 <p>I am not a drupal expert. About a year old, but I offer SEO along with the site to my clients which makes me write the article here. If we need to tweak Drupal to make a site as per the clients design, we end up using a lot of very useful add-on modules like the Sidecontent, Content Template, CCK, Views, Taxonomy list etc. End result, a beautiful CMS that the client can manage herself, but from teh SEO angle a horror..<br /> 1. Alinks will not work anywhere but in the [body].<br /> 2. All the CCK field headings that we input as field headings under which the client just "types" in the content, are not read by spiders..<br /> 3. The beautiful page provided by views and taxonomy list produces duplicate content. (The non-computer savvy client cannot be taught to create aliases)</p> <p>Its possible that all these issues I have mentioned above are actually non-issues, but If they do exist and others have found them nagging too, would the SEO team and the various modules team get together to create that WOW CMS which is even more SEO friendly? Or am I asking for too much ;-)</p> <p>A huge thank you to all who represent Drupal. It really is the best open source CMS now available.</p> <p>Warm regards<br /> Jaya</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/17616#comments Alinks cck fields SEO Search Engine Optimization Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:18:44 +0000 j4 17616 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/17438 <p>I've <a href="http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/seo-drupal-search-engine-optimization-tips-tricks-and-best-practices" rel="nofollow">proposed a panel session on SEO and Drupal</A> for DrupalCon.</p> <p>Ben Finklea and Greg Knaddison are going to be on the panel with me.</p> <p>Please consider <a href="http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/seo-drupal-search-engine-optimization-tips-tricks-and-best-practices" rel="nofollow">voting for the session</A>.</p> <p>At CivicActions we've also recently posted <a href="http://civicactions.com/blog/creating_seo_strategy_part_1_what_search_engine_optimization" rel="nofollow">4 of 5 articles in a series about about SEO and Drupal</A>. The fifth should be out by the end of this week.</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/17438#comments drupalcon SEO Search Engine Optimization Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:11:47 +0000 GregoryHeller 17438 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/17321 <p>I have built this site <a href="http://roundtripimports.net" title="http://roundtripimports.net">http://roundtripimports.net</a>.<br /> All content in the site is created as a "product". Now since we needed the get this product page pulled from the taxonomy list page, I created a view to do this. Now from the seo point of view I just realized that i have duplicate content:<br /> <a href="http://roundtripimports.net/italian-bread-making-cabinet-0" title="http://roundtripimports.net/italian-bread-making-cabinet-0">http://roundtripimports.net/italian-bread-making-cabinet-0</a><br /> <a href="http://roundtripimports.net/italian-bread-making-cabinet" title="http://roundtripimports.net/italian-bread-making-cabinet">http://roundtripimports.net/italian-bread-making-cabinet</a></p> <p>How do I solve this issue? Will the site get banned because of this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p> <p>Thanks in advance</p> <p>Jaya</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/17321#comments Search Engine Optimization Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:37:51 +0000 j4 17321 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/16745 <p>Here is <a href="http://jasminahomes.ca/docs/Drupal-SEM-Tips.pdf">the link to the SEO/SEM document</a> that I presented at <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/node/16646">Toronto DUG Meetup</a> last night. It describes some of the things I've learned about SEO &amp; Internet Marketing while developing &amp; promoting Drupal based <a href="http://JasminaHomes.ca/">York Region &amp; Toronto Real Estate website</a> for my wife Jasmina.</p> <p>Greg Knaddison, J. Cohen and others have extensively covered Drupal SEO in this forum (thank you!), so I took a slightly different approach and talked mostly about Search Engine Marketing (SEM) describing less known techniques like:</p> <ul> <li>Keyword Research - which is the cornerstone of any SEO initiative</li> <li>Internet Marketing tips &amp; mistakes to avoid and</li> <li>Some ideas to get ahead and stay ahead of your online competition.</li> </ul> <p>BTW, I didn't see any posts about <a href="http://www.google.com/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf">Google's official SEO Starter Guide</a> in this forum. It was released just 2 days ago, and contains 22 pages of SEO best practices used inside Google! This is a <strong>very</strong> nice guide for beginners.</p> <p>Hope this helps,<br /> Daniel</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/16745#comments Marketing Search Engine Marketing search engine optimization SEM SEO Search Engine Optimization Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:16:53 +0000 dzivkovi 16745 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/16534 <p>Hello everybody,</p> <p>I've just testet a commercial tool that checks different quality aspects of a text like word and sentence length, use of sentence constructions and others. Very interesting is for web texts the possibility to provide three keywords for the text. The density and position of these keywords is checked and you get a recommendation to raise or lower density and position of these keywords.</p> <p>As I am not a javascript enthusiast i will never write such a module but perhaps somebody is excited about the idea and will get his hands on code and provide us with such a beautiful module. :-)</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/16534#comments Search Engine Optimization Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:10:07 +0000 rogerpfaff 16534 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/16161 <p>We are building a large network of sites that will have many interesting challenges to conquer and this has not been done anywhere on the net so far.</p> <p>Some of them are:</p> <p>Website Creation Wizard with SEO<br /> Ubercart customization<br /> Multi-site control (domains not subdomains)<br /> Complex user rights and roles<br /> Integration with Wild West Domains API<br /> Two tiered Affiliate/Contributor Marketing Management System<br /> Related Ad Rotation<br /> Related Content Rotation<br /> Outbound feeds<br /> Incoming feeds for topic related content<br /> Network wide search by domain and by keyword or phrase<br /> Integration with Ultimate Autoresponder<br /> High traffic volume architecture<br /> High Security</p> <p>All the usuals: Blog, Newsletter, Forum, Polls, Events Calendar, Video Player, Content Uploader - all types and formats,....</p> <p>My team is sharp, but we hit walls where sharp Drupal specialists can really save us a lot of time.</p> <p>I am a successful businessman and social entrepreneur with past business and nonprofit successes. I am ready to do something big in the nonprofit space that can help working American people improve their standing in life. NDA and contract required.</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> ad rotation affiliate marketing consultant content rotation feeds multi-site SEO ubercart Search Engine Optimization Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:30:03 +0000 theportalusa 16161 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/15481 <p>I'd like to "hide" my Drupal 6.X site /node/... pages from the search engines, because I am using custom paths. There seem to be several ways of doing this:</p> <p>(1) robots.txt: adding "Disallow: /node$"<br /> (2) global redirect to 301 the pages<br /> (3) removing node pages from menu system programmatically or making them admin access only?<br /> (4) htaccess?</p> <p>I'm not sure what the pros and cons are here. My preference is using robots.txt, since I could then still maintain admin access to node/ pages by changing the access callback in the menu system</p> <p>Any help much appreciated!<br /> Doug</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/15481#comments Search Engine Optimization Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:35:59 +0000 dougstum 15481 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/15134 <p>Hi,</p> <p>we just finished changing our site over from a flat file format (everything hanging off / , to a 3 directory level structure with a parallel menu scheme.</p> <p>We're using the garland drop down menu theme and we're trying to<br /> a) understand why our site is underperforming<br /> b) understand how link authority is affected by internal links and<br /> c) wondering if the expanded menus option in the drop down menus dissipates internal link authority w.r.t. seo ?</p> <p>Any tutorials on b and answers w.r.t. c would be wonderful.</p> <p>Thanks,<br /> DK</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/15134#comments Search Engine Optimization Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:12:13 +0000 dkashen 15134 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/15099 <p>Hi,<br /> I have a website which is a lot optimized for SEO. What I really would like now, is the possibility to have different templates on different taxonomy depth level.</p> <p>I have taxonomy_menu working with url_aliassing which is the first step.<br /> I talked to Thomas (<a href="http://drupal.org/user/8094" title="http://drupal.org/user/8094">http://drupal.org/user/8094</a>) and he advised me to ask in this group!</p> <p>For my solution I am in the need to extract the terms out of the taxonomy_menu url and show a different panel-page related to the depth of the taxonomy-term.</p> <p>As you can see I have now the following levels:<br /> Frankijk (France) is url: <a href="http://www.wintersport-accommodaties.nl/taxonomy_menu/4/14" title="http://www.wintersport-accommodaties.nl/taxonomy_menu/4/14">http://www.wintersport-accommodaties.nl/taxonomy_menu/4/14</a> (4 = vocabulary)<br /> --Les-Trois-Valleés (5) <a href="http://www.wintersport-accommodaties.nl/taxonomy_menu/4/14/45" title="http://www.wintersport-accommodaties.nl/taxonomy_menu/4/14/45">http://www.wintersport-accommodaties.nl/taxonomy_menu/4/14/45</a></p> <p>I would like to show a different panel-page related to the taxonomy-term level.<br /> So "country" panel-page for Frankrijk and "region" panel-page for "Les-Trois-Vallees".</p> <p>So questions are:<br /> 1) How can I get the most right piece of the url out of the url? So 14 for France and 45 for Les Trois Vallees?<br /> I need the terms to work with.<br /> 2) How can I show different panels related to the amound of variables behind the "taxonomy_menu" string?<br /> So 4/14 means top level term, 4/14/45 means child level term because of three arguments behind the taxonomy_menu string.<br /> The piece of codes is in settings.php, arg() is not working on this place I think..</p> <p>I will post back the snippet I build with the answeres on these questions.</p> <p>Thanks a lot in advance for your remarks!</p> <p>greetings,<br /> Martijn</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/15099#comments taxonomy_menu taxonomy hierarchy Search Engine Optimization Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:06:04 +0000 MartijnHaan@drupal.org 15099 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/14809 <p>Currently in Drupal 5.10 it produces multiple content in multiple urls:</p> <p>domain/?page=16&amp;from=1289<br /> domain/?page=16&amp;from=1357</p> <p>Are currently indexed by Googlebot. But is being showed as double content for the same page in Google Webmaster Tools. In fact it displays the ?page=16</p> <p>Similar to this ?page= produces fictional pages for the last page in tracker pages.</p> <p>These pages are indexed by google:<br /> domain/node?page=565<br /> domain/node?page=751<br /> domain/node?page=759<br /> domain/node?page=787&amp;%24Version=0&amp;%24Path=/&amp;%24Domain=.domainname.xx</p> <p>But currently the last page is:<br /> domain/?page=568</p> <p>You can stop this by blocking it in robots.txt:<br /> Disallow: *?page<br /> Disallow: *from=</p> <p>Bug report for Drupal 5.10 here:<br /> <a href="http://drupal.org/node/307244" title="http://drupal.org/node/307244">http://drupal.org/node/307244</a></p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/14809#comments &amp;from= Drupal Google googlebot node?page= robots.txt Search Engine Optimization Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:08:31 +0000 FlemmingLeer@drupal.org 14809 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/14690 <p>I enabled the module: refine by taxonomy, <a href="http://drupal.org/project/refine_by_taxo" title="http://drupal.org/project/refine_by_taxo">http://drupal.org/project/refine_by_taxo</a> a while back and didn't think much about it until I discovered in Google Webmaster Tools that it produced some 50.000 additional pages which of-course was indexed by Googlebot !</p> <p>My site has some 6.500 nodes at the time being covering politics in Denmark with the option for 12 taxonomies on each refine by taxonomy page. I have some 500 taxonomies defined. Refine by taxonomy is currently only avialable on Drupal 5.x</p> <p>Refine by taxonomy provides users the ability to browse and filter taxonomies by selecting additional taxonomies to filter nodes by and thus narrowing the list of nodes showed.</p> <p>I also have pathauto installed <a href="http://drupal.org/project/pathauto" title="http://drupal.org/project/pathauto">http://drupal.org/project/pathauto</a> which delivers search engine friendly links for the taxomomy.</p> <p>Before the installation of refine by taxonomy my page rank was 5 and after it dropped to 4. This has almost cut my traffic by half.</p> <p>I made this change in robots.txt:<br /> <div class="codeblock"><code>User-agent: Googlebot&nbsp; <br /># don&#039;t allow taxonomy directory to be indexed<br />Disallow: /taxonomy/<br /># useful additional blocking<br />Disallow: *from=<br />Disallow: *sort=</code></div><br /> I also blocked the parameter from= &amp; sort=. Somehow from= gets indexed although I haven't noticed it in use in Drupal. sort= is used in forums and adds additional 7 pages available for indexing by search engine robots.</p> <p>Now I just sit back and wait :/ And cross my fingers that my pagerank 5 returns after this hickup :)</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/14690#comments Google refine by taxonomy robots.txt search engines SEO taxonomy Search Engine Optimization Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:58:14 +0000 FlemmingLeer@drupal.org 14690 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/14509 <p>Hi,</p> <p>I searched a bit on this issue, but couldn't find a direct hit, so please indulge me.</p> <p>The content analysis part of google's view of our site is reporting many<br /> cases of duplicate titles and meta tags where slight variations in a<br /> forum or view are considered separate urls.</p> <p>forum_topic<br /> ‎‎/forums/forum_topic?sort=asc&amp;order=Replies<br /> ‎‎/forums/forum_topic?sort=asc&amp;order=Topic<br /> ‎‎/forums/forum_topic?sort=desc&amp;order=Created<br /> ‎‎/forums/forum_topic?sort=desc&amp;order=Replies<br /> ‎‎/taxonomy/term/111/0‎</p> <p>Google is reporting this issue, so does it impact the seo ranking ?</p> <p>What is the best way to fix this ? Any prior refs are just as appreciated .</p> <p>Thanks,<br /> D</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/14509#comments duplicate tags Search Engine Optimization Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:28:28 +0000 dkashen 14509 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/14377 <p>I have a Drupal 5 site with the xmlSitemap module enabled.<br /> When i look at my xml file i see node/#### for thousands of entries. However there are Aliases set up for those nodes.<br /> What's worse is that the Alias is NOT in the xml file.</p> <p>ex. of node/123 which is the about-us page<br /> site.com/node/123 appears in sitemap.xml<br /> site.com/about-us Does not appear in sitemap.xml</p> <p>If I go to site.com/node/123 and select edit then immediately save it then the node/123 leaves the map, but the about-us does NOT appear in the map!</p> <p>I am told that the issue queue of the module is aware of this. I am not asking anyone in here to fix a module.</p> <p>I want to know what my options are for getting a working sitemap for my Drupal5 site. If the module intended to do the job is incapable then I need alternatives. I would also like to know how important the sitemap really is. I know that all of our pages get indexed, but they do not appear in the sitemap. Is that ok?<br /> - Doug Vann</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/14377#comments SEO sitemap XMLSitemap Search Engine Optimization Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:34:05 +0000 DougVann 14377 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/14371 <p>Recently a client contacted me with some instructions from her SEO guy. He is quite concerned that there are script tags before the meta description, keywords and robots. This data is being generated using print $head right after the print $head_title.</p> <p>Example:<br /> <div class="codeblock"><code>&lt;title&gt;Mountain Climbing Expeditions | Family Adventure Travel&lt;/title&gt;<br />&lt;meta http-equiv=&quot;Content-Type&quot; content=&quot;text/html; charset=utf-8&quot; /&gt;<br />&lt;!--[if lt IE 7]&gt;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot; src=&quot;/misc/jquery.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;<br /> &lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot; src=&quot;/misc/drupal.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;<br /> &lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot; src=&quot;/modules/nice_menus/nice_menus.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;<br />&lt;![endif]--&gt;<br /><br />&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;!--<br />var BASE_URL = &quot;/&quot;;<br />--&gt;&lt;/script&gt;<br /><br />&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;!--<br />var BASE_URL = &quot;/&quot;;<br />--&gt;&lt;/script&gt;<br /><br />&lt;!-- Additional IE/Win specific style sheet (Conditional Comments) --&gt;<br />&lt;!--[if lte IE 7]&gt;<br /> &lt;link rel=&quot;stylesheet&quot; href=&quot;/sites/all/modules/jstools/tabs/tabs-ie.css&quot; type=&quot;text/css&quot; media=&quot;projection, screen&quot; /&gt;<br />&lt;![endif]--&gt;<br /><br />&lt;meta name=&quot;description&quot; content=&quot;From mountain climbing expeditions to family adventure travel, we offer an array of international adventure tours. Explore the Alps by skis on the Haute Route or go hiking in Patagonia.&quot; /&gt;<br />&lt;meta name=&quot;keywords&quot; content=&quot;mountain climbing,expeditions,adventure eco travel,famlily adventure travel,hiking vacation,trekking trips,adventure travel guide,aspen adventure travel,mountain world travel,adventure travel company,IFMGA mountain guide,sustainable travel&quot; /&gt;<br />&lt;meta name=&quot;robots&quot; content=&quot;index,follow&quot; /&gt;<br />&lt;meta name=&quot;DC.title&quot; content=&quot;Adventures&quot; /&gt;<br />&lt;link rel=&quot;shortcut icon&quot; href=&quot;/files/favicon.ico&quot; type=&quot;image/x-icon&quot; /&gt;</code></div></p> <p>Is this actually a concern, and if so, how can I correct it?</p> <p>Thanks</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/14371#comments head tags meta tags script tags SEO Search Engine Optimization Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:08:25 +0000 TomCamp 14371 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/14331 <p>Coming from a web design and development background, one of the things that was most important to me if I was going to pursue the Drupal dream, was it's ability to be search engine friendly. 5 months later and with as many Drupal site builds under my belt, I'm now pretty confident that I have the right SEO toolset. <a href="http://www.codegobbler.com/5-drupal-seo-modules-essential-modules-all-sites" rel="nofollow">This writeup at codegobbler.com</a> details my top 5 modules for optimising Drupal for the search engines. What do you think? Am I missing anything?</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/14331#comments SEO top modules Search Engine Optimization Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:05:59 +0000 mrfelton 14331 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/14026 <p>I have an old site with some regular users. I would like to make a new version of the site with new url, different content and based on Drupal. The only thing remaining the same is the "idea" of the site and some content (but not all). I was wondering should I make 301 redirection from the old site to the new site? I've noticed that it's actually quite easy to do something wrong when it comes to SEO, so I just want make sure I don't mess up anything..</p> <p>Thanks!</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/14026#comments Search Engine Optimization Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:13:53 +0000 wpanssi 14026 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/13535 <p>Adobe teamed up with Google and Yahoo! to "enhance the searchability of SWF content by helping their spiders playback SWFs in the Flash Player runtime. The project runs SWF files within web spiders and allows all contents within a SWF file to be read by both major search engines. The cool part is that this also covers dynamic data loaded in from requests to a server, these are typically ignored in both AJAX and SWF applications.</p> <p>The net result is that SWF as a file format is now fully searchable by spiders at Google and Yahoo!. This is a very exciting announcement and is sure to be the talk of the town all day tomorrow."</p> <p><a href="http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&amp;newsId=20080630006649&amp;newsLang=en" title="http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&amp;newsId=20080630006649&amp;newsLang=en">http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_v...</a></p> <p>There is even <a href="http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=1478" rel="nofollow">a contest</a>.</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/13535#comments flash Flex Google SEO swf yahoo Adobe Technologies Search Engine Optimization Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:17:11 +0000 Chris Charlton 13535 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/13005 <p>I want to share with everybody what happened when I tried to boost my Drupal page rank in google.<br /> I used the following modules: page title, pathauto, global redirect and XML sitemap.</p> <p>Before my SEO tricks my site came fifth in the google search results (when searched with the name of the site).<br /> After a week my site came first in the google search result. However, after couple of weeks it was fifth and now it's tenth!</p> <p>So I wonder what has happened. All the trouble with the modules and now my ranking is sinking!! I read that duplicate content can hurt page rank but I thought using global redirect would eliminate the duplicate content issue. Has anyone any suggestions on what I should check related to duplicate content issue or something else that could cause this? I based my SEO tricks on this article althought it now seems to be unreachable: <a href="http://devbee.com/drupal_seo" title="http://devbee.com/drupal_seo">http://devbee.com/drupal_seo</a></p> <p>Thanks!</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/13005#comments Search Engine Optimization Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:30:39 +0000 wpanssi 13005 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/12992 <p>I believe in order to obtain a fairly high standard for increasing organic traffic that the modules mentioned in this <a href="http://vision-media.ca/resources/drupal-seo-tutorial" rel="nofollow"><strong>Drupal SEO Tutorial</strong></a> should be included in nearly every site. This screencast touches on pros and cons of the modules that I would suggest. Apart from that there are many steps that themers must take as well to increase organic growth but thats another screencast!</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/12992#comments organic traffic search engine optimizatin SEO Search Engine Optimization Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:45:42 +0000 tjholowaychuk 12992 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/12815 <p>Hope you find these tips useful. They had very good impact on my sites.<br /> I had a site with lot of taxonomies created "on the fly". This was very useful to get good rankings for very specific and rare keywords, that in sum were providing an important volume of traffic. I consider this the first tip, although no new news: the major key good point in Drupal SEO are taxonomies: they are the gate to lots of very specific keywords. I consider this the best starting point to go after more appealing ones.<br /> The problem with this approach is that although submitting sitemaps to google and all that stuff, many of those taxonomy pages were not being indexed by Google, and many of this "mini keywords" results were lost (I suppose Google could consider the content very similar between some of them).<br /> Here goes the second tip: using the taxonomy introduction module, I was able to add a brief introduction, different for every term. This simple action resulted in much more taxonomy pages getting indexed, and lot of visits coming from many more of those very specific keywords.</p> <p>Salu2<br /> Pedro Pablo</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/12815#comments Search Engine Optimization Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:59:52 +0000 pedropablo@drupal.org 12815 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/12814 <p>Hello<br /> Just to share something that happened to my <a href="http://cuentosparadormir.com" rel="nofollow">cuentos</a> site some weeks ago. I was configuring metatags to include geourl info (previously was it was only including description, abstract and keywords fields). When I checked the geourl field to be included, then automatically DC.title tag was added to my all pages (although I didn't notice until some time ago).<br /> The problem was that this was considered by Google as a duplicated tittle issue, and my pages were so heavily penalized that it was almost impossible to find my site in Google, even for keyworks that were very, very closely related to my site, that previously were #1 or #2. It took me about a week to discover what had happened to my site's rankings (webmaster tools was very helpful with this, although it took some time to report the "duplicate title" cue). Once I removed geourl field, DC.tittle disappeared and good rankings returned after another week. At least, I learned something very valuable, don' do that ever again!</p> <p>Has anyone of you experience those kind of problems with DC.tittle tags? is it supposed Google to consider them as a duplicated title tag, and penalize them?</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/12814#comments metatags seo title DC Search Engine Optimization Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:30:17 +0000 pedropablo@drupal.org 12814 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/12792 <p>If using the Path Module (which is standard for SEO), the URLs become case insensitive even on *nix servers. That means you can get duplicate content if people accidentally link to versions of your URLs with different cases.</p> <p><b>Example:</b></p> <ul> <li>drupal.org/handbook</li> <li>drupal.org/hAnDbOoK</li> </ul> <p>Just something to watch out for until it's fixed.</p> <p>I added an issue here:<br /> <a href="http://drupal.org/node/276201" title="http://drupal.org/node/276201">http://drupal.org/node/276201</a></p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/12792#comments path search engine optimization SEO Search Engine Optimization Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:08:51 +0000 J. Cohen 12792 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/12724 <p>Hi,</p> <p>I just checked google webmaster tools and i found that i have 4 pages duplicated from categories (taxonomy) one of them is:</p> <p>/taxonomy/term/10 that its duplicated of ‎/taxonomy/term/10/0</p> <p>Is the correct method to disallow all of those duplicate categories with:</p> <p>Disallow /taxonomy/term/*/0</p> <p>I would like to just remove all the /taxonomy/term/*/0 in all categories, for example:</p> <p>/taxonomy/term/1/0<br /> /taxonomy/term/2/0<br /> /taxonomy/term/3/0<br /> ...</p> <p>Thanks.</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/12724#comments Search Engine Optimization Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:10:02 +0000 TonW 12724 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/11900 <p>I've been doing quite a lot of seo tweaking to various Drupal sites over the past few years. I've run into an issue that I would like to throw out for discussion. On the one hand, taxonomy is great for categorizing your site, getting crawled and helping engines understand your clusters of content. On the other hand, all of those taxonomy links in posts are internal site "votes" for taxonomy listing pages which might or might not be the key search engine target pages for those concepts. In my experience, it's good to have defined the pages that are the primary targets for inbound hits from search engines.</p> <p>For example, you might have a page about compact cars that is your primary target page for this concept. You would want all other pages related to this page to "vote" for this page by linking to it. But, the taxonomy links "vote" for the taxonomy listing page for that concept "compact cars." This even becomes more difficult to manage when the marketing folks get involved and want to really have a primary page from a design/content perspective about their compact car products. They'll go crazy if searchers are being directed to a taxonomy listing of "possibly" relevant pages by term.</p> <p>I've been working on getting breadcrumb link pieces (tied to taxonomy terms) to vote for various target pages and not link to the taxonomy listing using the taxonomy breadcrumb module. Good stuff. But I started wondering about the taxonomy links at the bottom of pages. Should they "vote" for a defined target page or link to the taxonomy listing? Or a mix of both?</p> <p>I'm not so worried about engines crawling the taxonomy related pages, but I am worried about splitting votes and having searchers going to lesser pages. Using taxonomy context provides a nice mechanism for engines to crawl the site and get into the taxonomy heirarchy. I'm just concerned that nodes voting for taxonomy listing pages might not be as productive as having terms vote for target pages.</p> <p>I know you can setup overview type pages with taxonomy context, but they never seem simple enough for end-users etc. to grasp -- also you have to give out taxonomy administer privs to edit them. Just creating pages, tagging them and maybe putting them into the menu structure is about all I try to ask for from end-users. To get users to start grappling with the workings of taxonomy always seems like a bad move. I try to set it up to be as simple as possible.</p> <p>As with all taxonomy and seo efforts, I could just be losing my mind! But seriously, is there a downside to all of this linking to taxonomy term listings? I sometimes feel that the alinks module is more beneficial for seo than taxonomy since it lets you create a vocabulary of keywords that all "vote" in a pre-determined way. Easy for users and admins to setup.</p> <p>Ok, don't sugar coat it, let me have it!</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/11900#comments SEO taxonomy votes Search Engine Optimization Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:04:19 +0000 lutegrass 11900 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/11836 <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.cemper.com" rel="nofollow">CEMPER.COM Internet Marketing Services</a> is seeking a </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>                 </b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><br /> <h1>Web Developer</h1> <p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>with<br /> strong software development skills </b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i>&nbsp;</i></p> <p class="MsoNormal">To join our growing team and help improve and expand the company's internal internet tools for <a href="http://www.cemper.com/services/" rel="nofollow">search engine optimization</a>, <a href="http://www.cemper.com/services/competitive-seo-analysis.html" rel="nofollow">competitive seo analysis</a> and <a href="http://www.cemper.com/services/link-building-services.html" rel="nofollow">link building tools</a>. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">We are seeking a seasoned professional who is capable of consistent<br /> production of quality software in a fast-paced but relaxed environment - be<br /> ready to work hard, but enjoy yourself in the process.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i>&nbsp;</i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i>The ideal candidate will have 3+ years of full-time<br /> development experience with PHP, and a working knowledge of (X)HTML, CSS and<br /> Javascript. An understanding of the Web 2.0 development standards, database<br /> architecture and clean, maintainable code will be crucial to success on this.<br /> PHP Development experience must include usage of version 5.x and its object<br /> oriented features.  Serious experience on MySQL is required; candidates must<br /> know how to both write, maintain and optimize queries with multi-table joins.</i></p> <p>The following core skills are sought:</p> <p>• PHP<br /> • MySQL<br /> • AJAX<br /> • Web 2.0 concepts, dynamic user interfaces<br /> • Version Control knowledge (CVS &amp; Subversion)<br /> • Great English skills<br /> • Used to work with request trackers (i.e. Mantis, BugZilla)<br /> • Used to work driven by english specification documents</p> <p>We offer:</p> <p>• Enjoy working in a growing team in a dynamic, fast-paced and exciting industry<br /> • Work in a company like there’s no other in Austria – even among the EU and USA only very FEW do the things CEMPER.COM does (hence we have so many happy US and UK clients!)<br /> • Super-Flextime<br /> • Inspiring 17th floor water views of the wonderful nature of the Alte Donau and Gänsehäufel – it’s almost too nice to work here!</p> <p>Your Salary:</p> <p>Salary depends on experience but is highly competitive.</p> <p>More Details at <a href="http://www.cemper.com/jobs/wd5.htm" title="http://www.cemper.com/jobs/wd5.htm">http://www.cemper.com/jobs/wd5.htm</a></p> <p>Find more about our company <a href="http://www.cemper.com/" rel="nofollow">CEMPER.COM Internet Marketing Services</a><br /> and even more details of our online marketing efforts <a href="http://www.marketingfan.com" rel="nofollow">online marketing blog</a><br /> which also has a <a href="http://www.marketingfan.at" rel="nofollow">german/austrian internet marketing weblog</a> counterpart</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> ajax Drupal mysql php vienna Austria Consulting and Business Enterprise High performance Javascript Search Engine Optimization Thu, 29 May 2008 14:49:10 +0000 Christoph C. Cemper@drupal.org 11836 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/11361 <p>Hi! I'm new to Drupal, but am trying out the tips I see in this group. They've been very helpful.</p> <p>I recently just moved my old site, <a href="http://www.amici.com.ph" title="www.amici.com.ph">www.amici.com.ph</a> to Drupal. I still have to learn how to do themes soon. The old links that were indexed by google, I used htaccess to redirect to relevant pages of the new website. Since the old links redirect to new pages, won't they be treated as pages with duplicate content?</p> <p>Thanks!</p> <p>William</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/11361#comments Search Engine Optimization Fri, 09 May 2008 17:54:15 +0000 mangwills 11361 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/11304 <p><a href="http://tips.webdesign10.com/basic-drupal-seo-on-site-optimization">This Drupal SEO tutorial</a> was written about 1 1/2 years ago and was getting badly outdated, so I updated it.</p> <p>I'll organize it better when I have time, but at least wanted to have it be current.</p> <p>In a nutshell:</p> <ol> <li>Enable Clean URLs</li> <li>Enable Path Module</li> <li>Install and enable Pathauto Module</li> <li>Configure Pathauto Module so that it doesn't change your URLs on your when you change the title of a node</li> <li>Install the Global Redirect Module which will remove trailing slashes on URLs and redirect URLs to their URL aliases.</li> <li>Install the Meta Tags Module.</li> <li>Install the Page Title Module</li> <li>Do <strong>NOT</strong> install the Drupal Sitemap Module.</li> <li>Fix .htaccess to redirect to "www" or remove the "www" subdomain.</li> <li>Fix your theme's HTML headers -- many themes don't do this correctly.</li> <li>Make sure you don't have PHP session IDs in the URLs (I haven't seen this problem on Drupal sites in a long time).</li> <li>Fix your robots.txt file. The default robots.txt file still has serious problems in Drupal 6.</li> <li>Watch out for contributed modules that create extra bad URLs and block them with robots.txt</li> </ol> <p>Hope that is useful as a starting point...</p> <p>Let me know if I missed anything or if you disagree...</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/11304#comments SEO Search Engine Optimization Thu, 08 May 2008 04:31:33 +0000 J. Cohen 11304 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/11269 <p>Today I discovered something disturbing: a bunch of pages of my Drupal 5 <a href="http://www.cruisesavvy.com/savvyguide" rel="nofollow">cruise guide</a> site were missing from Google's index under the site name, and showed up under the IP address instead. Worse yet, Google has been known to penalize sites for duplicating content on a large scale - a real risk if it's seeing both the URL and the IP address. I did some digging, and I think I found a solution worth sharing.</p> <p>First, here's an example: my blog entry on “How to get Seasick” was in the Google index when I searched the URL, site:72.52.247.79/site_blog/how_to_get_seasick, but NOT when I searched the main site, site:cruisesavvy.com/site_blog/how_to_get_seasick.</p> <p>In <em>theory</em> there shouldn't really be a problem because Googlebot should never find the IP because who would ever link to something so unweildy? But, as it turns out, Google somehow picked up both the URL and the IP address from a post I wrote in Drupal Groups, and some of my own pages. Which is weird, because the links were all URLs, even in the Google cache, but nonetheless the page shows up on searches for link:72.52.247.79. Needless to say, I don't use IP when linking pages.</p> <p>Does Drupal sometimes change URLs to IPs for some reason?? I'm perplexed.</p> <p>But whatever the cause, it seems that the way around this is to add the following line to .htaccess , as part of the rewrite rules:</p> <p><code>RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+){3} [OR]</code></p> <p>That’s in addition, of course, to un-commenting either</p> <p><code># RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC]</code><br /><code># RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]</code></p> <p>Or</p> <p><code># RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.com$ [NC]</code><br /><code># RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [L,R=301]</code></p> <p></p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/11269#comments Search Engine Optimization Wed, 07 May 2008 01:53:45 +0000 prfb@drupal.org 11269 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/11163 <p>Generally speaking I find that SEO articles are light on details and heavy on the same old simple ideas, so I was quite happily surprised by <a href="http://www.joostdevalk.nl/seo-newspapers/" rel="nofollow">Newspaper SEO</a> by Joost de Valk.</p> <p>Of course, all of these things are easy to achieve with Drupal (if not already standard) :)</p> <p>Some interesting tips:</p> <blockquote><p>Make sure the article title is in the tag too, and include the category. - - works best in my experience.<br /> ...<br /> I understand that people want to track how many visitors came from their RSS feed, but there are better ways to do this than using ?source=rss in your links and not redirecting them out... Another case of duplicate content I often encounter is when articles are placed in multiple categories, and have a URL in each category. You should pick one category as the main one, and redirect all the other entry points to that main URL.<br /> ... </p></blockquote> <p>Etc.</p> <p>Great stuff!</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/11163#comments newspapers SEO Newspapers on Drupal Search Engine Optimization Fri, 02 May 2008 18:41:38 +0000 greggles 11163 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/10198 <p>I work on a <a href="http://www.cruisesavvy.com" title=" Cruise information, reviews and ship pictures" rel="nofollow">cruise information</a> site built in Drupal 5. In addition to a handy guide explaining the essentials of a <a href="http://www.cruisesavvy.com/savvyguide/introduction_to_cruises" title="Introduction to Cruises" rel="nofollow">1st cruise</a>, we lets users browse and share <a href="http://www.cruisesavvy.com/gallery" title="Cruise Pictures - search by line, ship and topic" rel="nofollow">cruise ship pictures</a> and <a href="http://www.cruisesavvy.com/journals" title="Members&#039; personal cruise journals" rel="nofollow">cruise stories</a>. We've given some thought to SEO, so I thought I'd share a few things we've learned....</p> <p><strong>1. Optimize titles and file names</strong>. This is a major part of how Google matches your page to someone's search results. So, use clean URLs, <a href="http://drupal.org/project/auto_nodetitle" rel="nofollow">Automatic Node Titles</a>, <a href="http://drupal.org/project/pathauto" rel="nofollow">Pathauto</a> and <a href="http://drupal.org/project/page_title" rel="nofollow">Page Title</a>. Also think carefully about how you name nodes and panels, taking into account the words people would use when searching. For example, few people search for &quot;gallery&quot; so &quot;pictures&quot; may be a better choice.</p> <p><strong>2. Submit to DMOZ</strong>. Their directory pages typically have high Rank, and even more importantly Google and AOL use <a href="http://www.dmoz.org" rel="nofollow">DMOZ</a> in categorizing websites. Always follow the submission guidelines in selecting the right category and writing up your description. Trying to game the system by picking a &quot;more popular&quot; category or writing a &quot;jazzy&quot; description will only work against you.</p> <p><strong>3. Write enticing meta DESCRIPTIONS</strong>. The <a href="http://drupal.org/project/nodewords" rel="nofollow">Meta Tags</a> module allows you to write custom meta keywords and descriptions. Keywords are now ignored by SEs, but descriptions are shown in Google search results, so they can have a big impact on click-through.</p> <p><strong>4. XML Sitemap</strong>. Many sites are actually fine without this. But if you have content that changes frequently or a very large archive of documents that aren't well inter-linked, it's probably worth using <a href="http://drupal.org/project/xmlsitemap" rel="nofollow">XML Sitemap</a>.</p> <p><strong>5. Track your results</strong>. <a href="http://www.google.com/analytics/" rel="nofollow">Google Analytics</a> and <a href="http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/" rel="nofollow">Webmaster Tools</a> are wonderful. Analytics will let you track daily visits, where people are coming from, and even what keywords they used to find you. Be sure to create a filter to exclude visits from yourself and your team. Webmaster Tools will help identify any problems with the site that may offend Google.</p> <p><strong>6. Use Mailhandler to stay on top of press releases</strong>. More content is always better than less. So have press releases sent to an account that goes to <a href="http://drupal.org/project/mailhandler" rel="nofollow">Mailhandler</a>, which will automate the import. But, simply republishing press releases is counter-productive: Google disregards duplicate content. Instead, have Mailhandler import releases as &quot;unpublished&quot; and use them as basis for your own unique articles.</p> <p><strong>7. Ask for a plug</strong>. We all know bloggers and journalists. Don't be shy! Ask them to write about your site. Offer to do an interview. Even if it's just a simple &quot;a friend is working on this&quot; link in your buddy's blog, it'll help people (and Google) find you.</p> <p><strong>5. More specifically, ask for anchor links</strong>. For a new site, these really help Google figure out what you do. Let me give you two versions of the same sentence:</p> <p>(a) Nice to have: &quot;http://www.CruiseSavvy.com is a helpful site for people thinking about their first cruise, or who want to browse and even share cruise ship pictures and cruise stories&quot;</p> <p>(b) <em>Awesome</em> to have: <a href="http://www.cruisesavvy.com" title="Cruise Reviews and Information" rel="nofollow">CruiseSavvy.com</a>, is a helpful site with for people thinking about their <a href="http://www.cruisesavvy.com/savvyguide/introduction_to_cruises" title="Introduction to Cruises" rel="nofollow">first cruise</a>, or who want to browse and even share <a href="http://www.cruisesavvy.com/gallery" title="Cruise Pictures - search by line, ship and topic" rel="nofollow">cruise ship pictures</a> and <a href="http://www.cruisesavvy.com/journals" title="Members&#039; personal cruise journals" rel="nofollow">cruise stories</a>.</p> <p>Version (b) takes up no more space on the blogger's site, while also linking words like &quot;cruise ship pictures&quot; to specific destinations on the site, complete with Title descriptions when the reader hovers over the links. This is helpful for the readers, and helps Google figure out what a site is all about.</p> <p>The HTML for that, by the way, is:<br />&lt;code&gt;<br />&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cruisesavvy.com&quot; title=&quot;Cruise Reviews and Information&quot;&gt;CruiseSavvy.com&lt;/a&gt;, is a helpful site with for people thinking about their &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cruisesavvy.com/savvyguide/introduction_to_cruises&quot; title=&quot;Introduction to Cruises&quot;&gt;first cruise&lt;/a&gt;, or who want to browse and even share &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cruisesavvy.com/gallery&quot; title=&quot;Cruise Pictures - search by line, ship and topic&quot;&gt;cruise ship pictures&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cruisesavvy.com/journals&quot; title=&quot;Members' personal cruise journals&quot;&gt;cruise stories&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/code&gt;</p> <p>Speaking of which, would YOU be so kind as to help spread the word about CruiseSavvy? <br />I sure would appreciate it. =)</p> <p>Hope that helps. And if you have additional ideas, please share!</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/10198#comments modules SEO Search Engine Optimization Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:44:41 +0000 prfb@drupal.org 10198 at http://groups.drupal.org http://groups.drupal.org/node/10198 <p>I work on a <a href="http://www.cruisesavvy.com" title=" Cruise information, reviews and ship pictures" rel="nofollow">cruise information</a> site built in Drupal 5. In addition to a handy guide explaining the essentials of a <a href="http://www.cruisesavvy.com/savvyguide/introduction_to_cruises" title="Introduction to Cruises" rel="nofollow">1st cruise</a>, we lets users browse and share <a href="http://www.cruisesavvy.com/gallery" title="Cruise Pictures - search by line, ship and topic" rel="nofollow">cruise ship pictures</a> and <a href="http://www.cruisesavvy.com/journals" title="Members&#039; personal cruise journals" rel="nofollow">cruise stories</a>. We've given some thought to SEO, so I thought I'd share a few things we've learned....</p> <p><strong>1. Optimize titles and file names</strong>. This is a major part of how Google matches your page to someone's search results. So, use clean URLs, <a href="http://drupal.org/project/auto_nodetitle" rel="nofollow">Automatic Node Titles</a>, <a href="http://drupal.org/project/pathauto" rel="nofollow">Pathauto</a> and <a href="http://drupal.org/project/page_title" rel="nofollow">Page Title</a>. Also think carefully about how you name nodes and panels, taking into account the words people would use when searching. For example, few people search for &quot;gallery&quot; so &quot;pictures&quot; may be a better choice.</p> <p><strong>2. Submit to DMOZ</strong>. Their directory pages typically have high Rank, and even more importantly Google and AOL use <a href="http://www.dmoz.org" rel="nofollow">DMOZ</a> in categorizing websites. Always follow the submission guidelines in selecting the right category and writing up your description. Trying to game the system by picking a &quot;more popular&quot; category or writing a &quot;jazzy&quot; description will only work against you.</p> <p><strong>3. Write enticing meta DESCRIPTIONS</strong>. The <a href="http://drupal.org/project/nodewords" rel="nofollow">Meta Tags</a> module allows you to write custom meta keywords and descriptions. Keywords are now ignored by SEs, but descriptions are shown in Google search results, so they can have a big impact on click-through.</p> <p><strong>4. XML Sitemap</strong>. Many sites are actually fine without this. But if you have content that changes frequently or a very large archive of documents that aren't well inter-linked, it's probably worth using <a href="http://drupal.org/project/xmlsitemap" rel="nofollow">XML Sitemap</a>.</p> <p><strong>5. Track your results</strong>. <a href="http://www.google.com/analytics/" rel="nofollow">Google Analytics</a> and <a href="http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/" rel="nofollow">Webmaster Tools</a> are wonderful. Analytics will let you track daily visits, where people are coming from, and even what keywords they used to find you. Be sure to create a filter to exclude visits from yourself and your team. Webmaster Tools will help identify any problems with the site that may offend Google.</p> <p><strong>6. Use Mailhandler to stay on top of press releases</strong>. More content is always better than less. So have press releases sent to an account that goes to <a href="http://drupal.org/project/mailhandler" rel="nofollow">Mailhandler</a>, which will automate the import. But, simply republishing press releases is counter-productive: Google disregards duplicate content. Instead, have Mailhandler import releases as &quot;unpublished&quot; and use them as basis for your own unique articles.</p> <p><strong>7. Ask for a plug</strong>. We all know bloggers and journalists. Don't be shy! Ask them to write about your site. Offer to do an interview. Even if it's just a simple &quot;a friend is working on this&quot; link in your buddy's blog, it'll help people (and Google) find you.</p> <p><strong>5. More specifically, ask for anchor links</strong>. For a new site, these really help Google figure out what you do. Let me give you two versions of the same sentence:</p> <p>(a) Nice to have: &quot;http://www.CruiseSavvy.com is a helpful site for people thinking about their first cruise, or who want to browse and even share cruise ship pictures and cruise stories&quot;</p> <p>(b) <em>Awesome</em> to have: <a href="http://www.cruisesavvy.com" title="Cruise Reviews and Information" rel="nofollow">CruiseSavvy.com</a>, is a helpful site with for people thinking about their <a href="http://www.cruisesavvy.com/savvyguide/introduction_to_cruises" title="Introduction to Cruises" rel="nofollow">first cruise</a>, or who want to browse and even share <a href="http://www.cruisesavvy.com/gallery" title="Cruise Pictures - search by line, ship and topic" rel="nofollow">cruise ship pictures</a> and <a href="http://www.cruisesavvy.com/journals" title="Members&#039; personal cruise journals" rel="nofollow">cruise stories</a>.</p> <p>Version (b) takes up no more space on the blogger's site, while also linking words like &quot;cruise ship pictures&quot; to specific destinations on the site, complete with Title descriptions when the reader hovers over the links. This is helpful for the readers, and helps Google figure out what a site is all about.</p> <p>The HTML for that, by the way, is:<br />&lt;code&gt;<br />&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cruisesavvy.com&quot; title=&quot;Cruise Reviews and Information&quot;&gt;CruiseSavvy.com&lt;/a&gt;, is a helpful site with for people thinking about their &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cruisesavvy.com/savvyguide/introduction_to_cruises&quot; title=&quot;Introduction to Cruises&quot;&gt;first cruise&lt;/a&gt;, or who want to browse and even share &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cruisesavvy.com/gallery&quot; title=&quot;Cruise Pictures - search by line, ship and topic&quot;&gt;cruise ship pictures&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cruisesavvy.com/journals&quot; title=&quot;Members' personal cruise journals&quot;&gt;cruise stories&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/code&gt;</p> <p>Speaking of which, would YOU be so kind as to help spread the word about CruiseSavvy? <br />I sure would appreciate it. =)</p> <p>Hope that helps. And if you have additional ideas, please share!</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><a href="/search-engine-optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a></div> http://groups.drupal.org/node/10198#comments modules SEO Search Engine Optimization Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:44:41 +0000 prfb@drupal.org 10198 at http://groups.drupal.org