search engine optimization

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

My SEO Friend module has been approved by drupal.org and is now available at:

http://drupal.org/project/seo_friend

Please let me know if you want any SEO-related features added.

Thanks!
Kristen

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".

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.

Location: Boston Area (Currently in Needham, MA - relocating by end of the year to Boston)
Position Title: Web Application Developer
Type of position: Full-Time or Contract-to-Hire
Travel Required: None

Responsibilities: The Sr. Web Application Developer will be responsible for developing and administering all Web marketing infrastructure for the NetGraviton.com Web site. Typical day-to-day responsibilities include:

If using the Path Module (which is standard for SEO), the URLs become case insensitive even on *nix servers. That means you can get duplicate content if people accidentally link to versions of your URLs with different cases.

Example:

• drupal.org/handbook
• drupal.org/hAnDbOoK

Just something to watch out for until it's fixed.

I added an issue here:
http://drupal.org/node/276201

A good roundup of what an SEO friendly CMS should offer by Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz. Most of the needs are met by Drupal core and the rest can be done with contrib modules. Two questions come to my mind:

I am pleased to announce the release of the Drupal "SEO" Checklist Module.

The "SEO" Checklist Module provides a list of good Search Engine Optimization actions that you should take to maximize the presence of your website in the major search engines. It provides little functionality itself but rather it helps you keep track of what needs to be done.

**Benefits:

Greetings! I would like to announce that SpryDev today launched the Drupal SEO Podcast at http://www.sprydev.com/podcast. Over the coming months we'll be exploring all aspects of SEO on Drupal. I wanted to start out with the basics so the first podcast is rather short and covers the Page Title module. I know that's pretty basic stuff for this crowd but we wanted to get the ball rolling and it seemed a good place to start. If you have any suggestions for future topics, please let me know.

I'm starting to build a search engine company primarily targetting small and medium businesses to a) Transition to Drupal and b) To get their SEO/SEM business. I wanted to bounce of the theme http://www.surgeboom.com. We are not even ready at alpha stage but I think the theme is coming along.

Would love to have feedback.