Discussion, tips and tricks for making your Drupal site rise to the top of search result lists.
including SEO modules development & discussions.
Site Seo Problems - Thinking Maybe Move to Wordpress
I have launched a site that is now 9 months old , I had alot of problems that I fixed in the beginning , but even though my links are imo good and content is pretty good aswell the site doesnt seem to be getting any search engine traction.
3-4 Articles rank ok but I have a similar site in the niche with the same amount of articles that gets around 2k visitors a day. Can someone check out the site and see wtf is drawing it back.
Site is www.hardwarepal.com
Two URLs to the same page listed in Google, ignoring redirect?
I was just checking some search results to one of my own sites, and found that searching drupal content translation spanish (without quotes) currently list two results (different URLs) to the identical content/page, currently shown at positions #7 and #8 on the Google results for me. But, the second URL listed is set up to redirect to the first (and I've checked the redirection is working correctly).
Now, I understood that Google would never do this. Am I just wrong, or have they changed something? Not that I have a problem with the page being listed twice :)
[Drupal] hyperlinks are the cause of almost every result in Google’s top 20 results for the keyword “pay day loans”
I'm not sure if this belongs here, but its pretty interesting...
From http://www.seoconsult.com/seoblog/pay-day-loan-rankings-the-shady-tale-o...
Drupal allows the posting of comments on articles posted. These comments allow some basic HTML by default, including hyperlinks. These hyperlinks are the cause of almost every result in Google’s top 20 results for the keyword “pay day loans”. The hyperlinks do not contain a nofollow attribute which means that a spammer may post as many links in these comments to the pay day site as they want, and Google will treat them as ranking links.
I know that everyone in this group probably enables antispam countermeasures on their sites (right?!) such as mollom, captchas, nofollows, etc.
That all being said, this author is correct when he states
Personally I find it amazing that Drupal does not include the nofollow attribute by default.
I tried to find a core issue request, but was unable to. Does one exist? I can't imagine that it doesn't :)
F'n spam...
Read more[OT] Project suggestion
Dear All,
I have been working in Drupal for the past many months and i am very much fascinated about it.Thanks to large community of Drupal
I am a post graduate student and i have to do a final project as a degree requirement, i have several option for doing my project,
But since my interest lies in Drupal and SEO and open source so i wanted to do something in this field only. My project will continue for 2 semester so i want to do something challenging and doable.
how to avoid links like ?page=10
Hello,
i have a panel page for the front. i look in to google via site:www.example.com he shows me urls like www.example.com/?page=10
what is wrong ..but can access and crawls the urls ...thats dc and very bad for my seo. i think this is not usefull to add urls like this to the robots.txt ...google will index it anway.
any help ?
OG URL, node ID and best practice
I've been investigating the og:url tag and canonical URL's tonight in an attempt to wrap my head around the best practice for this.
We've usually always use the node/NID as the canonical URL as well as the URL used for facebook likes. It seemed natural since my idea of a canonical URL is that the URL is persistent. A URL-alias changes if the node title is altered.
However, after getting in SEO/Sharing-trouble with a website that uses node/NID as canonical URL as well as the og:url BUT also uses Global Redirect module (redirecting node/ID to its alias) I'm having second thoughts.
Read moreCase study: BRIXS Group - An SEO Perspective
Hey folks,
I'm new to this group and wanted to say hi by sharing our case study with you:
http://drupal.org/node/1774428
Any input is welcome. Let me know what you think.
Path Finder module - another solution for path/alias management
Comments invited - new module to help with path-management and avoid broken links: http://drupal.org/project/pathfinder
Code will be uploaded very shortly.
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How to apply?
To apply, please include the following at your application:
• Links to your Drupal code (preferably custom Drupal 7 modules),
• Your username on drupal.org, github.com or any other community where
your credentials could be assessed.
• Your LinkedIn profile as well your LinkedIn Email.
• Two references in Drupal 7 and Ubercart 3 especially.
• 2 recommendations from owners
The phases are established according with the priority.
The entire project is divided in 3 phases (next details are from first phase):
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Read morePenguin Update any Help + Site Review?
Hello
after the well knowing updates from google my site is gone, and i dont know what it is. Is anyone around who can help me to droop out of the filter? I do all the things that google always says..i mean i´m not a seo, but i´am interested i also do all what i can but without luck. I feel very sick!
Site Review for Good SEO
Typically when I launch a Drupal site using all of the SEO essentials (nodewords, proper URLs, etc) it shows a PageRank of 3 within a week or so. Perhaps you all could take a look at this site and share some pointers? http://macombbankruptcy.com
I would also like to invite other Drupalers to submit their sites here for review so we can all help each other out and share some tips and tricks :)
PHP Developer / CSS designer / Drupal Expert | SubmitCore
Senior Drupal Developer Required
We have to re-design our website Submitcore and migrate it from wordpress to drupal. Please send your resume at our email address. If you are expert in drupal and css designing only then apply for this job. We are also expert in drupal guest posting service.
Technology Skillset :
• Core PHP, OOP in PHP, Drupal and knowledge of Zend Framework would be prefered.
Follow, NoIndex for Specific Pages
Hi,
I am developing a new site and was curious, if there is a way for the automatized formatting of the page code to index/no-index.
Currently, Google crawls all pages from my site, but I have the taxonomy for the navigation finished, but I have no content there yet. It hurts my potential future ranking as Google Panda/Penguin will rank many pages as "pages with no content".
Is there a way to set taxonomy pages as "NoIndex, Follow"?
Regards,
Lukas
SEO - Resolve Issues - Immediate Requirement - Please! | cmssite
Our site is Drupal 6 – CMS – ECOMMERCE
We take an order and these are automatically sent through to our supplier, we are using Ubercart and NAB transact for this.
Background:
The site has been built/semi built as Multi site CMS, where we would be 4 Main Sites/templates and from there each Main site would have multiple domains underneath that site. Example: Site 1 would have 10 other individual domains built using the same layout but of course different content.
URGENT REQUIREMENTS:
Read morede/robots.txt not found
Hello,
My website has two languages : French and German.
I see in my log warnings, type "Page not found" like that :
http://www.mysite.com/de/robots.txt
My French language has no path prefix.
Example url : http://www.mysite.com/contact
My German language has a prefix path : de
Example url : http://www.mysite.com/de/Kontakt
Could problem comes from that difference between the 2 languages configuration?
If not, what could be the problem? How to solve it?
Officially supported meta tags for Nodewords & Metatags
Last updated by DamienMcKenna on Thu, 2013-01-31 18:59
The following is a list of the officially supported meta tags for Nodewords (D6) and Meta tags (D7). Issues dealing with keeping feature parity between the two modules have been marked with the "Nodewords-Metatag feature parity" tag.
Read moreDrupal SEO: The best how-to, with bonus SEO tips and tricks, for Drupal webmasters
I've created an article that I hope will become a great Drupal SEO 'tips and tricks' resource at Drupal SEO: The best how-to, with bonus SEO tips and tricks, for Drupal webmasters
For example, I've included:
Tweaking Drupal paths for SEO (with Path module)
.htaccess 301 redirects
Blocking stub pages with robots.txt
Writing SEO content for Drupal
Canonical URLs vs. robots.txt
Pass SEO juice with 301 redirects
multilingual installation with some content types not translated
Hello,
I wonder how it goes with multilingual installation where not all contents are translated.
My website has 2 languages, but a certain content type will never be translated. And that content type groups around 1000 nodes.
so "mysitename/mycontent name" shows same content as "mysitename/de/mycontent name".
Is that not duplicate content?
in http://www.mysitenam/sitemap.xml, I have:
http://www.mysitename/mytype/alala
and in in http://www.mysitenam/de/sitemap.xml, I have: http://www.mysitename/de/mytype/alala
I have redirect module, but I'm not sure it helps in that matter.
Owner | Only Flowers
Goal: A well optimized professional looking website.
Requirements: To to make changes to the header to give it the WOW factor.
Currently we are using sliding images (4 at present) would like to improve the quality - also add in the function of adding text in to each individual slider to for SEO purposes.
Does SEO issue of duplicate content apply to iFrames?
Hello,
I am adding some wikipedia.org content to my website in iframes, as a convenience to the users of the site. Each iframe is in a separate page of its own.
I am wondering if google sees the iframes inside my site as duplicate content and this might count against my site's SE ranking.
If so, would it help if I specify that the duplicate content pages not be searched? How should I do it - in the robots.txt or better to do it via meta tags?
(I thought this question must've been asked before but couldn't find a duplicate. site:groups.drupal.org/seo iframes)
