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?

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

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

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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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 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

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

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?

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?

-=- christopher

Here's an SEO issue with the Views module. I haven't found a solution yet.

Default views in the Views 2 Module have an SEO issue. They don't send 404 errors when a non-existent URL is requested.

For example, if your view is located at
example.com/articles

and your page is at:
example.com/articles/my-page

but you accidentally link to:
example.com/articles/mypage

Drupal sends a "200 OK" header and the content from:
example.com/articles

instead of sending a 404 header/page.

I mentioned SWFAddress in the SEO BoF at DC DrupalCON 2009.

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.

I just came across an article on www.websitemagazine.com about <link> tags 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 <link> tag?

I was just reading Suture CSS or JavaScript Files to Reduce HTTP Requests 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? If I am posting to the wrong group please let me know if there a more appropriate group for this subject.

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?

Just looking for feedback for those who want to share. Thanks!

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.

I'm not sure what the best way would be to do this, but I would like to know!

Peter

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 SEO issues involved in this as well. 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".

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.

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.

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.

The website structure is divided into 3 sections: Business Directory | Events | Community

Business Directory content is added by the following node types:

1. Entertainment
2. Health
3. Religious
4. Restaurant
5. Service
6. Shop
7. Website

Events content:

1. Event

Community Content:

1. group
2. group post
3. album (photos)
4. question (answers)
5. blogs

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..
1. Alinks will not work anywhere but in the [body].

I've proposed a panel session on SEO and Drupal for DrupalCon.

Ben Finklea and Greg Knaddison are going to be on the panel with me.

Please consider voting for the session.

I have built this site http://roundtripimports.net.
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:
http://roundtripimports.net/italian-bread-making-cabinet-0
http://roundtripimports.net/italian-bread-making-cabinet

How do I solve this issue? Will the site get banned because of this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Jaya

Here is the link to the SEO/SEM document that I presented at Toronto DUG Meetup last night. It describes some of the things I've learned about SEO & Internet Marketing while developing & promoting Drupal based York Region & Toronto Real Estate website for my wife Jasmina.

Hello everybody,

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.

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.

Some of them are:

Website Creation Wizard with SEO
Ubercart customization
Multi-site control (domains not subdomains)
Complex user rights and roles
Integration with Wild West Domains API
Two tiered Affiliate/Contributor Marketing Management System
Related Ad Rotation
Related Content Rotation
Outbound feeds
Incoming feeds for topic related content
Network wide search by domain and by keyword or phrase

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:

(1) robots.txt: adding "Disallow: /node$"
(2) global redirect to 301 the pages
(3) removing node pages from menu system programmatically or making them admin access only?
(4) htaccess?

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

Any help much appreciated!
Doug

Hi,

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.

We're using the garland drop down menu theme and we're trying to
a) understand why our site is underperforming
b) understand how link authority is affected by internal links and
c) wondering if the expanded menus option in the drop down menus dissipates internal link authority w.r.t. seo ?

Any tutorials on b and answers w.r.t. c would be wonderful.

Thanks,
DK

Hi,
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.

I have taxonomy_menu working with url_aliassing which is the first step.
I talked to Thomas (http://drupal.org/user/8094) and he advised me to ask in this group!

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.

As you can see I have now the following levels:

Currently in Drupal 5.10 it produces multiple content in multiple urls:

domain/?page=16&from=1289
domain/?page=16&from=1357

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

Similar to this ?page= produces fictional pages for the last page in tracker pages.

These pages are indexed by google:
domain/node?page=565
domain/node?page=751
domain/node?page=759
domain/node?page=787&%24Version=0&%24Path=/&%24Domain=.domainname.xx

But currently the last page is:
domain/?page=568

I enabled the module: refine by taxonomy, http://drupal.org/project/refine_by_taxo 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 !

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

Hi,

I searched a bit on this issue, but couldn't find a direct hit, so please indulge me.

The content analysis part of google's view of our site is reporting many
cases of duplicate titles and meta tags where slight variations in a
forum or view are considered separate urls.

forum_topic
‎‎/forums/forum_topic?sort=asc&order=Replies
‎‎/forums/forum_topic?sort=asc&order=Topic
‎‎/forums/forum_topic?sort=desc&order=Created
‎‎/forums/forum_topic?sort=desc&order=Replies
‎‎/taxonomy/term/111/0‎

I have a Drupal 5 site with the xmlSitemap module enabled.
When i look at my xml file i see node/#### for thousands of entries. However there are Aliases set up for those nodes.
What's worse is that the Alias is NOT in the xml file.

ex. of node/123 which is the about-us page
site.com/node/123 appears in sitemap.xml
site.com/about-us Does not appear in sitemap.xml

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!

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.

Example:

Mountain Climbing Expeditions | Family Adventure Travel