Search Engine Optimization

In the process of converting a D5 site to D6 (with a major structural redesign), the tids of terms were changed (there was no way to prevent it - the changes were very broad).

Unfortunately, I just discovered that we had some serps for high-value keywords attached to some /taxonomy/term/tid pages, which now point to completely different terms.

I had an idea of how I might ameliorate this, and hoped the group might have some feedback:

1) Remove taxonomy/term/tid pages from search engine indexes, moving forward, replacing them with a custom URL

My google webmaster tools is showing many node URLs on the site being gotten duplicate. Actually I used Quick Tabs module almost a month ago and it created duplicate URLs such as

http://example.com/content/abc-def-ghi?quicktabs_1=0
http://example.com/content/abc-def-ghi?quicktabs_2=0
http://example.com/content/abc-def-ghi?quicktabs_8=2, etc

for the actual URL

http://example.com/content/abc-def-ghi.

Hi,

If you have a site where the same teasers can appear on many different pages -- such as taxonomy pages that show all teasers with that tag, or views pages that use arguments -- what's the best practice for SEO?

I'm concerned that by having the same teasers show up on so many pages/urls may be hurting over all SEO status.

Should some of these taxonomy and view pages be excluded in robots.txt and an xml site map, so that search engines only index the pages that really count. Or is there no penalty for having the same content show up on many urls?

On Tuesday night at the Melbourne Drupal Meetup, there was some discussion on the relevance of meta tags in helping search engines classify content..

While RDF in core will move us a long way toward more relevant semantic data, the major search engines continue to work on their search algorithms...

Hello, I've heard that Google indexes up to 3 levels of directories inside URL's.

Does that mean real directories (like in an static site) or does it mean the "/" forward slash that might be placed inside a URL created by pathauto?

For example, I am wondering how would Google deal with the following URL:

http://tribalrugs.net/kilim_gabbeh/nomdic_flat-weave/kilim_rugs/khorjins...

All of above are important keywords and it adds up to just 81 characters. They were created by pathauto based on the following setting for that content type: [termpath]/[title-raw]

My new SEO Friend modules is available at:

http://drupal.org/project/seo_friend

The module is meant to be used with other Drupal SEO modules, particularly (for now) nodewords, nodewords_bypath, page_title, and pathauto.

I would love feedback and suggestions for new features.

Thanks,
Kristen

Hello,

I am using Xenu's Link Sleuth (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.

There is an SEO issue with Drupal's forums similar to the SEO problem with Drupal views where pages that don't exist still send a 200 OK header.

This is the correct URL of a Drupal forum:
drupal.org/forum/1

This non-existant URL also sends a 200 OK header when it should send a 404 Not Found header:
drupal.org/forum/1/asdf.html

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.

Hello all.

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.

A Guide to Drupal SEO

Take care.
Dan