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.

amariotti's picture

Apache RedirectCond/RedirectWrite Help

I am nearing the completion of converting an Accrisoft CMS site to Drupal and have one last piece that is not working.

Accrisoft's URL generation is like other CMSs, clunky, but since the site has been around for so long the URLs have gained good reputation on Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc. Normally this really wouldn't be a big deal, but for this certain case it really has been.

Here's what I have to work with:
OLD URL: http://d.proimage.net/index.php?src=gendocs&ref=STORELOCATOR&category=Main
NEW URL: http://d.proimage.net/franchise-locator

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Dave Reid's picture

New releases of Pathauto imminent - help us test!

This week we'd like to release a new version of Pathauto for both Drupal 6 and 7. There have been numerous fixes for long-standing bugs with alias generation and internationalization. Oh and a few new features too (mostly in the 6.x-2.x and 7.x-1.x versions). As there have been quite a few changes made, we'd like your help testing either the 6.x-1.x-dev, 6.x-2.x-dev, or 7.x-1.x-dev versions.

Make sure when testing you have the latest development version of Token module downloaded as well.

Below are some of the major changes and bug fixes:

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Amir Simantov's picture

Regarding content aggregation

I have opened an issue in the quicktabs.module issue queue but thought that a reference from here might help you, guys, helping me get a faster answer.

The question is: Shuold nodes that are quicktab-ed be disallowed from search engines?
The link to the issue is: http://drupal.org/node/874528

Thanks!

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Ben Finklea's picture

Dynamic Phone Number Insertion in Drupal?

We use a service called IfByPhone that offers "Dynamic Phone Number Insertion" (DPNI). This is a service that swaps out the phone number on your site based on where the visitor came from. It's like using a different phone number in the yellow pages, on a billboard, and on a TV ad. That way, when you get your phone bill, you can see how many people called you from each ad. This could work similarly with the search engines. Someone came from Google, show them number A. Yahoo, show them number B. Drupal.org, show them number C. Etc.

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emmajane's picture

Review of draft book chapter needed

I'm in the mad dash to the finish on my new book, "Drupal: A User's Guide." I have an entire chapter dedicated to Search Engine Optimization. I'm an author so I like to pretend it's a pretty awesome chapter (it helps me sleep at night). I could really use a second or fourth set of eyes on the content though. The book is D7 and the chapter includes 20 or so Drupal modules as well as another 20 non-Drupal resources. If you have some time to review the chapter over the next week I'd really appreciate it.

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Ivo.Radulovski's picture

Drupal SEO session v3

Submitted our session about Drupal SEO (v3).

Looking forward to see you in Copenhagen!

The third version of the Drupal SEO session will provide you with examples & use cases from the praxis.

Vote / Bookmark:

http://cph2010.drupal.org/sessions/drupal-seo-search-engine-optimization...

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greggles's picture

SEO suggestions for groups.drupal.org

Hi SEO Group,

There's an issue for updating the titles/keywords here on groups.drupal.org to be a bit more searcher friendly. I started digging into it and realized it would be best to get more advice from the experts on this one.

So, if you are looking for fame and glory as one of the people who helped improve the SEO for groups.drupal.org (i.e. credit in blog post and/or tweets) lay down your research and ideas for how we can make this site easier for people to find.

In particular, I'm looking for:

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jdln's picture

How to structure my e-commerce site?

Im making a site selling tea. The default url structure would be;

mytea.com
(Home Page)

mytea.com/green
mytea.com/black
(Category Pages)

mytea.com/green/product1
mytea.com/green/product2
mytea.com/black/product3
mytea.com/black/product4
(Product Pages)

The Category Pages list about 10 teas. Each has an image and a paragraph of text.

Should I not use Product pages? All the information about each Product could be seen on it's Category Page. Presumably this will optimize for the Category terms or ‘black’ and ‘green’, more than the Product names?

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RichieRich's picture

Continually being penalized

Hi there,

This is my site:

www.ishigaki-japan.com

I started to build it around 15 months ago and by the end of this January it had made the top two spots on Google for my target terms. However, one day I noticed that my homepage had completely disappered from Google's index.

In the end I submitted a reconsideration request to Google and it reappeared back at the top shortly after it had been processed.

A week later the same thing happens again.

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TomDude48's picture

Version 2 of Content Optimizer readying for release

We finally got version 2 of the Content Optimizer module release candidate ready and would appreciate any additional input. The purpose of the module is to help people audit their content for SEO statistics and provide best practices recommendations. Version 1 analyzed nodes during editing. V2 now has a modal interface thanks to Chaos Tools and adds the ability to analyze all Drupal pages including views and panels, free form content or any accessible web page on any website for that mater.

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7 Drupal Modules to improve SEO of your Drupal website

Drupal out of the box has good SEO features that makes it Search Engine Friendly (SEF) instantly, just converting a website to Drupal has positive effects on the SEO side. With good themes that have SEF markups and things like javascript (JS) and CSS aggregation in Drupal core it helps to speed up a website and attract search engine bots. Core modules like path helps to define SEF URL for the content of your website with clean URL without the ?q=. If you have path on, I guess the obvious next step is to get pathauto, so I will not include pathauto in my list below.

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Rosamunda's picture

Google will use site speed to set its Page Rank, will that matter to Drupal 7 sites?

Hola gente!

Pues bien, habrán leído la noticia que Google va a utilizar para indexar sus sitios la velocidad de carga como un elemento más a medir. Si bien no es un elemento que va a pesar mucho en la determinación del PR (aparentemente menos del 1% del total de sitios se ha visto afectado hasta ahora), creo que es un tema de discusión interesante.

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christefano's picture

Google is using site speed as a factor in search rankings

It's no surprise that site speed offers visitors a better experience, but Google just announced that site speed is now a factor in search rankings. I think this has actually been true for some time, but it's worth mentioning here. This is definitely another feather in the hats of performance specialists who offer high performance tuning services to their clients.

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yuvraj_jain's picture

How To Generate The Dynamic Meta Tags In Views Or Panels...

I am new bee in drupal still i had developed a small website in that i am using views and panels now i want to give the dynamic meta tags is it possible any how....

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poeticwave's picture

Quick SEO for Drupal?

Ok, so I'm new to Drupal and THE main reason I'm new to it and not been using it over the past couple years, is because it doesn't have good SEO techniques defaulted or easy to adjust to.

I've tasted the power of Drupal though (finally), so I need to develop with it, which means I need to learn to make sites:

  1. Be good SEO friendly, quickly.
  2. Be good SEO without any trouble for a new user when I hand the site over.
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enbilulu's picture

auto meta-tags

I want use use metatag for my content. instead of typing tag for each node. I want to module do it for me. like google keyword page. module check my content and generate tag according to my content

how can i do that?

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pmarreddy's picture

301 redirect is working for www.example.com but not for ....

I am getting a strange problem with 301 redirect it the code is working for with www in the link and not working for with out www

RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^api$ http://example.com/topic/api [R=301,L]

if i type http://www.example.com/api it works but if i do http://example.com/api it doesnt work \

Adv thanks
prasanth
http://learna2z.com

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Mike_Waters's picture

Site move caused a change in taxonomy term tids; serp implications

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

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FlemmingLeer's picture

?q parameter

I just discovered an unfortunate function in Drupal 5.x (Drupal 5.20) which creates multiple content in Google.

http://www.example.com/?q=Drupal

Where Drupal is an url alias.

http://www.example.com/Drupal
&
http://www.example.com/?q=Drupal
are offcourse the same but google catches both and indexes them.

adding Disallow: /?q= to robots.txt wil block these multiple urls.

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nikmahajan's picture

Duplicate URLs are being generated

My google webmaster tools is showing many node URLs on the site being gotten duplicate. Actually I used Quick Tabs module almost a month ago and it created duplicate URLs such as

http://example.com/content/abc-def-ghi?quicktabs_1=0
http://example.com/content/abc-def-ghi?quicktabs_2=0
http://example.com/content/abc-def-ghi?quicktabs_8=2, etc

for the actual URL

http://example.com/content/abc-def-ghi.

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