Posted by mlangfeld on October 2, 2011 at 12:41pm
In the Drupal 6 site I managed, we used the Page Titles and Nodewords modules to allow easy addition of search engine friendly page titles, etc. I'd like to hear your experience with these modules, others or without extra SEO modules. And if you're already working with Drupal 7, I'd love to hear any differences you find. Especially whether RDF-a support changes your approach to SEO.
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Interested to see what others
Interested to see what others say about this. I'm considering adding Nodewords module to our Drupal 6 website. I've read several places that Google doesn't use metatags because websites abused them. So... why do people still use them? For other search engines?
Thanks, Kevin
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SEO Meta Tags - page title is not enough
Google claims to not use but is what people see when they use Google search. Treat the description like advertising copy - it will affect whether people click on your serp or someone else's.
Nodewords
There are other meta tag categories in Nodewords (D6) and Meta Tags (D7 rewrite of Nodewords)
Meta Tags (D7) includes:
I know what you mean re Google search. Google chooses its own keywords from page content; however, I haven't read the same for Bing or Yahoo, so some folks add them anyway. I think the best idea is to be sure you use keywords in the actual content of the node. I also used several of the other fields, so found Nodewords worth using. At the same time, I didn't note a big difference in Google Analytics, so I wanted to know if others do note a difference or not.
Best, Marilyn
Yep. I regularly use
Yep. I regularly use Nodewords, Page Title, and Sitemap.
You are correct that Google ignores KEYWORDS meta tag. But, as noted, there are other goodies in Nodewords. Canonical URLs being an important one -- especially if you are having PathAuto preserve all URL aliases that you create, as opposed to overwriting them when you change them.
Description also is important for the search results page. And, the noindex and nofollow options (per node) can help you link sculpt; helpful if you have member-only pages too. Page Title also good for your SEO.
Now, mind you, your client content editors might never use it, but good to have it around and work them into it. If it is your own site, you have no excuse not to use it.
I get massive emails on panda
I get massive emails on panda (google's new search) Panda reads the keywords and if they are not on the page below the keywords they get thrown out. Too many keywords up above that are not below in the text and google ignores your page.
Thanks for the nodewords tip . New to Drupal and still trying to add the basics of static pages to Drupal
Head Dragon Kid Stevens
Of Web-DrupalDesign .com
Seo page title and description
A friend of mine who has a few very successful sites says that page title and description are crucial. the thing is my website has some of what you are talking about on it with the limited ability to change pages but things like the homepage and menu i cannot access and change the page title and description. what is the best seo module to allow me to change the page title and description on everything on my site http://www.akeso.co as the important one ( homepage ) say a generic statement for title and description says landing page for site, this isnt wnat i want and i dont want to keep going back to the developer to change things.
Page Title module (as already
Page Title module (as already mentioned in this thread). You can enable it on a content-by-content type basis, use it on node-to-node basis, configure user permissions, and set global defaults.
I use SEO almost everything
I use SEO almost everything in the module as they all do different things. Met Tags Meta tags (quick) Page title and Sitemap and XML Sitemap. I am ranked PR4 on google in one month.
Head Dragon Kid Stevens
Of Web-DrupalDesign .com