A pair of SEO tips regarding taxonomies

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pedropablo's picture

Hope you find these tips useful. They had very good impact on my sites.
I had a site with lot of taxonomies created "on the fly". This was very useful to get good rankings for very specific and rare keywords, that in sum were providing an important volume of traffic. I consider this the first tip, although no new news: the major key good point in Drupal SEO are taxonomies: they are the gate to lots of very specific keywords. I consider this the best starting point to go after more appealing ones.
The problem with this approach is that although submitting sitemaps to google and all that stuff, many of those taxonomy pages were not being indexed by Google, and many of this "mini keywords" results were lost (I suppose Google could consider the content very similar between some of them).
Here goes the second tip: using the taxonomy introduction module, I was able to add a brief introduction, different for every term. This simple action resulted in much more taxonomy pages getting indexed, and lot of visits coming from many more of those very specific keywords.

Salu2
Pedro Pablo

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Yeah!

NikLP's picture

The taxonomy intro thing is pretty cool - I have been accomplishing this using the taxonomy_context module, which provides this functionality and some other cool stuff.

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A potential drawback of well

yaph's picture

A potential drawback of well ranking taxonomy term pages is that the actual content tagged with the corresponding terms may not rank that well. Anyway adding additional information to terms is a good thing because it helps users.

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