SEO

Hi folks, I'm wondering if you have any suggestions because we're at the end of our rope! The web site I manage has been hit with a flood of new user registrations that are NOT people authentically trying to join our community. Since this started on October 1st, we have been getting approximately 10 new users per hour, 24-7. The IP addresses are almost always unique and the profile information is different each time, sometimes with spammy links, sometimes not.

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

A Digital Agency based in South Melbourne are seeking a HTML/CSS Web Developer with Drupal experience. The agency provide strategic interactive design and development services for a range of clients. Their a small growing team, and this role will be managing another Web Developer. The successful candidate will have a strong knowledge of; templating PhotoShop files, browser compatibility, web standards, SEO, and usability. Experience working with Drupal, Ajax, Flash and Javascript are also essential.

Requirements:
- At least 2 years Drupal experience
- Excellent communication skills

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

Discussions - Links

Project Tracking

• Pivotal Tracker - http://www.pivotaltracker.com/
• Open Atrium - http://www.openatrium.com/

SEO

• SEO Checklist - http://drupal.org/project/seo_checklist

Theming - Misc

• Fusion - http://www.topnotchthemes.com/blog/090709/tnt-2-0-and-future-drupal-them...
• Top Drupal Dev Firms - http://developmentseed.com http://pingv.com/

Backup Migration and Legacy DB Support

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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...

Backend Web Developer with Drupal Skills
1185 Design, an award-winning web and print Design Agency in Palo Alto, CA, is seeking a Backend Web Developer. The candidate will be an integral part of a small team of programmers in a dynamic multimedia group. A successful candidate is one who thrives under pressure and works effectively in a fast paced design agency, has disciplined experience in the internet industry, preferably with agency experience; and the ability to simultaneously prioritize multiple projects including client expectations and schedules.

Requirements:

I am working on a site (http://www.car-rental-salt-lake-city.com/) and am having issues with getting the Google robots to search and index it. This is a multisite installation on Drupal 6 with the RobotsTxt module (http://drupal.org/project/robotstxt) installed. The robots text file is located here: http://www.car-rental-salt-lake-city.com/robots.txt. It has been submitted using the Google Webmaster Tools, but still has not been indexed after 4 weeks.

Anyone with experience have any ideas as to what may be going on?

Thanks!

The video we captured is posted and linked off the Session pages.

http://boston.design4drupal.org

Titles with "+ Slides + Video" for example on the end will have those resources.

We hope that those that could not attend will enjoy some of the goodness we shared at MIT on June 13 and 14, 2009.

A special thanks to Sheeri Cabral and her assistant Ed Carlevale for their brilliant production work.

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