Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

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Discussion, tips and tricks for making your Drupal site rise to the top of search result lists.

including SEO modules development & discussions.

drummondf's picture

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 :)

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AndieCZ's picture

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

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sahuni's picture

de/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?

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Officially supported meta tags for Nodewords (D6) & Metatags (D7, D8)

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Tag Nodewords?
(Drupal 6) Metatag?
(Drupal 7) Metatag?
(Drupal 8) General abstract Yes Yes Yes canonical URL Yes Yes Yes content-language No Yes Yes description Yes Yes Yes Read more
SME Pals's picture

Drupal 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

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sahuni's picture

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.

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Aleet's picture

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)

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jeet.dutta's picture

Can anyone help How Drupal SEO ll be optimize?

Can anyone help How Drupal SEO ll be optimize? I just need the basic ideas..

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waterfire's picture

SEO MODULES

Hello Sirs
I am very new to drupal previously i was using zen cart recently shifted to drupal and added ubercart into it please sugest me what are the best modules for seo can i add all these modules

Pathauto
Page Title
Global Redirect
Path redirect
Search 404
Nodewords

Please guide if i add all these seo modules it will work fine or will create any problem?

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Anonymous's picture

Advice on Drupal Modules...Module Advice Needed - Creating Reservation Site/Shopping Cart

Hi All,

I have ubercart and doing a shopping cart/reservation system online for courses. Course Operators page is built. I need advice on:

A module for a customised Search Function
The Scheduler or Availability Calendar for the course operator

Can UC Hotel Booking have elements adapted and used? Or, is this something for an experienced DBA?

Thanks!

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yuvraj_jain's picture

Need Help for Multisites With Drupal new bee for multisites

Hello All,
I have to develop a site that can support multisite with drupal, my basic needs are
1) Main site can create the other site with different database
2) The site created from Main site can handle custom modules and themes.

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Aminka Ozmun's picture

Drupal, Site Design, and SEO

Hi,

I'd like a "very cool-lookin' site" since it seems to be what the niche market I'll be getting into would demand -- but I've heard that SEO works on text and links and that graphics can compromise SEO. Is that true? In what ways? And how does the picture change, if at all, when Drupal enters the picture, especially with regards to a "quick hosted site" service such as Drupal Garden or Pagebuild?? I know this is a newbie question, so please forgive since I'm still finding my footing!

TIA

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Brainwrap's picture

How well is Drupal calendar content recognized by search engines?

I have a client who's been using an ancient (by web standards) Perl-based calendar script program (called, dully enough, "CalendarScript", which hasn't been updated in years.

I've recently converted other parts of her site over to Drupal 6.x, and have been strongly recommending moving off of this old calendar script out of both security concerns and usability reasons. However, she's used it for many years and is reluctant to abandon it.

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picxelplay's picture

SEO consequences from transfering tld's to sub domains

We have a client that has multiple top level domains for the products they offer. These products are different full fledged softwares. They also have a domain for their actual company that makes these products. We are consolidating their sites so that all of them can be managed by one backend. One of our developers suggested to consolidate even more by moving their product tld's into sub domains of the company site.

So instead of this:
http://company.com
http://product1.com
http://product2.com
http://product3.com
http://product4.com

It would be this:
http://company.com

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robertDouglass's picture

Brainstorming for Adobe (Omniture) Test&Target integration

I haven't seen any sign of an official Test&Target integration for Drupal. Having one would be very useful. Here are my initial thoughts on how it could work.

Here's the API and integration guide: http://www.scribd.com/doc/37593903/Test-and-Target-Integration-Guide-2010

  1. You can have MBoxes to replace whole pages. This is handy for testing different splash or landing pages. Drupal integration could offer you the chance to put 2 or more paths in and then render access to any of them as a test.
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skat's picture

What is your experience and opinion using OpenCalais to improve your SEO?

Hi,
I would like to Know your opinions about OpenCalais and SEO

Thanks!

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JayVGee's picture

Page Title Module and Fusion Theme

I am currently having a problem with the page title module and a custom fusion sub-theme. I have installed the module and it seems to be working properly; except when I edit the page title field for an individual page, the page title doesn't show, I still get the default page title I setup in the page titles module settings. I have looked in the issue ques for the module and there is a patch, but when the patch is applied I am still not getting the results.

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sahuni's picture

SEO and multilingual website with language per domain name

I would like some comments on basic questions

In a general way,
French being the default, if I have www.myFrench.com and www.myGerman.com, will I have to reference the two? Only the French one? In my point of view, I would like the 2 to be referenced.

If yes (meaning the two are possible)
I can’t see how to do that because it’s same website.
In Google, generally I choose option of putting a validation html file at root of website.
But if I have a second domain name for same website, I just must validate the same validation file and it will works?

xmlsitemap

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Drupal 7 SEO Checklist

I would love to put together a Drupal 7.0 SEO checklist. Please feel free to add/edit.

All comments should be related to SEO in Drupal 7.0 and unless directly relevant should not contain Drupal 6.0 advice (although links to D6 are welcome).

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  • The SEO Checklist module (available for both 6 and 7) has most of these included it in with automatic checks, datestamps, links to the download pages, and links to the config pages. Very, very helpful module. http://drupal.org/project/seo_checklist
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    indigoblue's picture

    CDN's SEO and PageRank

    I have heard many experts state that the use of a CDN has no impact on SEO, but I am not convinced. Clearly speeding up a website WILL have a positive impact but my primary area of concern is with regard to PageRank.

    My understanding of pagerank is that it is calculated on a per domain basis and that each sub-domain is considered a separate domain.

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