Announcing the "SEO" Checklist Module

That was an EXCELLENT idea. I'm forever trying to remember if I did all the SEO setup for any given site. Always find myself wasting time checking. And a notebook never helps either cause I can't find it.

This is cool

Phil

Thanks to Ben and SpryDev for giving back to the community! I'll definitely be checking this out!

I agree, wonderful idea.

I like the idea, and it will be better if its a way to build a link exchange system

Thanks for the kind comments, gents! I'd love to know how you used the module and what results you were able to achieve. That would take a few weeks or months, of course.

Sorry, toma, link building isn't something that we're planning to add in the future. That would probably be better suited as a completely separate module.

If you know of any modules or things that we should add, please let me know.

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A group for links exchange engine, but nothing release yet http://groups.drupal.org/seo-links-exchange-engine

As you know a module like that will be good for seo

Thanks, I didn't know about the "Find URL Alias" module. I was just wishing for something like this the other day! :)

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Hey Ben,

I DIGG it!

Just wanted to say congrats on the SEO module! I installed it on my test web site and, after reviewing it, will most definitely be installing it on my production web site.

Thank you very much and I strongly believe most folks that use Drupal should download your module and review/follow its well-thought-out steps. Following the recommendations in your SEO module is well-advised and, IMO, will definitely lead to better placement for my web site among the major search engines.

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Great thanks to Ben and Sprydev, I love this modules. The SEO Checklist Module is one of the first drupal module installed on my site.

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Ok, I think this checklist is great, but I'm wondering if anyone can offer suggestions for what to do configuration-wise with the steps in the checklist.

For example the page_title module, the single most important thing I can do is enable this module?

Or use this module to modify my tags ... how?

The title tag is arguably the single most important on-page element you've got. In the page_title module, you can configure a separate string for both the <title>Keyword rich title that appears at the top of the browser bar</title>, AND the <h2>title of the document</h2>, which appears in the URL and at the top of the body text.

Within the configuration of the page_title module, I would suggest that you have a look at the page title tokens in Administer > Content Management > Page Titles (click on the "more help" link just above the fields where you make your choices. See what's available and make up your own mind.

As an example, I use [site-name] | [site-slogan] on my front page.
but for all other pages, I use [page-title], by [author-name-raw]
...because people are tuned in to WIIFM (What's In It For Me), they are looking for content that is an answer to the question in their mind. If you've gotta put your site name on there, stick it at the end. After all, it's probably up on the top left side of every page on your site isn't it? So they already know where they are.

This works well for my family website, and for my 'solopreneur' company where I want to rank for both keywords and my own name (yes, it's an ego thing), but it may not be right for someone else.

Your mileage may vary, blah, blah...etc.

Much Luck,

Ron Jones

Ok, this is helpful. The idea is to have unique content everywhere we can and to not have search engines finding duplicates of everything everywhere, including/especially in page titles.

the whole duplicate content thing. It has been hyped way past suspension of disbelief.

Searchers like to get back relevant, diverse results to their queries. Google will do what is in the best interests of their customers, because it provides them with the highest probability of increasing profits. All big "G" does when it finds several copies of one piece of content in several locations is to filter out the duplicates.

Some SEO conference blogger probably still hung over from the night before heard "duplicate content filter" in some round table discussion, repeated it on his blog, and at the bar as "duplicate content penalty." And a myth was born.

The folks who suffer with the duplicate content filter are those who get their content off article sites and cheap "content is king, get rich with our avalanche of fresh content" membership sites. They're too lazy to write their own content, or too cheap to hire out for exclusive content.

As long as your content resides on only your own servers, don't worry about duplicate content from a "penalty" perspective. Use the global redirect module, tweak your robots.txt and make sure that what gets indexed is your descriptive URL paths so that searchers have a better feel for what the piece is about.

In other words, we want yoursite.com/fishing/bass/how-to-make-a-bass-lure instead of yoursite.com/node96 to be the URL in the SERPs.

Ron Jones