Search Engine Optimization

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301 redirect is working for www.example.com but not for ....

I am getting a strange problem with 301 redirect it the code is working for with www in the link and not working for with out www

RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^api$ http://example.com/topic/api [R=301,L]

if i type http://www.example.com/api it works but if i do http://example.com/api it doesnt work \

Adv thanks
prasanth
http://learna2z.com

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Pay Per Click Marketing Coordinator | Volacci

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Volacci.com is currently seeking a full-time, on-site PPC coordinator for our Search Engine Marketing department. We need a doer! Someone who really knows how to get things done for our growing portfolio of new clients. We have plenty of programmers, designers, writers and SEOs and we need to add someone to handle the PPC to our team.

Primary qualifications:

Sets and meets deadlines
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Someone who knows how to get things done
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Site move caused a change in taxonomy term tids; serp implications

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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

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?q parameter

I just discovered an unfortunate function in Drupal 5.x (Drupal 5.20) which creates multiple content in Google.

http://www.example.com/?q=Drupal

Where Drupal is an url alias.

http://www.example.com/Drupal
&
http://www.example.com/?q=Drupal
are offcourse the same but google catches both and indexes them.

adding Disallow: /?q= to robots.txt wil block these multiple urls.

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Duplicate URLs are being generated

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.

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Comment Permalinks and Duplicate Content

I'm working on backporting the comment permalinks from Drupal 7 to Drupal 6 and am curious what the SEO folks think about the way it works.

The code was added to Drupal 7 in this commit as a result of this issue which is really about making the "recent comments" links work properly regardless of which page comments are on.

What this code does is:

  1. Create a new path - "comment/CID" which points to comment_permalink
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taxonomy and views pages and SEO -- what's the best practice?

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?

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Drupal.org Website Traffic Going Up and Up and Up

I've been getting tons of calls/emails about Drupal work in the last 6 months. I just did an alexa search today since I was curious what traffic has been like on drupal.org. It's gone through the roof over the last 6 months:

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/drupal.org

and based on this, drupal.org is now ranked in the top 1000 websites!

Note that joomla.org also saw the same pattern during that time period and has a higher rank that drupal.org.

It will be interesting how this plays out over the next year.

Go Drupal!
Kristen

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Google Caffeine - Improvements to search algorithm

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...

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SEO Checklist Module version 2 released today

Version 2.0 of the Drupal SEO Checklist module was released today. Check it out and give me your feedback!

http://drupal.org/project/seo_checklist

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Google indexing of URL's: How many directories in the URL is appropriate and how many is too many?

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]

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Google Website Optimizer

After seeing a Google Website Optimizer module for WordPress I started looking for a similar module for Drupal. I came across the following Google Website Optimizer module. 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?

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New SEO Friend Module

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

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Hi,
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.
Please contact me for more information.
Many thanks
Glen Moore

Listing all URLs for a Drupal site - for 301 redirect from old site

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.

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Interactive Search and Social Networking Lead | At-Tech Technical Recruiters

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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 & Social Networking service line with its own P&L in Scottsdale, AZ.

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SEO issue with Drupal Forums

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.

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Views block exposed filters get indexed?

Hello recently I am hectic about my drupal sites seo.

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...

"Message Illegal choice in field_age_value_many_to_one element"

should i block the spider crawl those filters?

Thanks

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Post on a number of techniques for Drupal SEO

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

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Possible to set entire blocks to nofollow?

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?

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