Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Hello
Just to share something that happened to my cuentos site some weeks ago. I was configuring metatags to include geourl info (previously was it was only including description, abstract and keywords fields). When I checked the geourl field to be included, then automatically DC.title tag was added to my all pages (although I didn't notice until some time ago).
The problem was that this was considered by Google as a duplicated tittle issue, and my pages were so heavily penalized that it was almost impossible to find my site in Google, even for keyworks that were very, very closely related to my site, that previously were #1 or #2. It took me about a week to discover what had happened to my site's rankings (webmaster tools was very helpful with this, although it took some time to report the "duplicate title" cue). Once I removed geourl field, DC.tittle disappeared and good rankings returned after another week. At least, I learned something very valuable, don' do that ever again!

Has anyone of you experience those kind of problems with DC.tittle tags? is it supposed Google to consider them as a duplicated title tag, and penalize them?

Hi,

I just checked google webmaster tools and i found that i have 4 pages duplicated from categories (taxonomy) one of them is:

/taxonomy/term/10 that its duplicated of ‎/taxonomy/term/10/0

Is the correct method to disallow all of those duplicate categories with:

Disallow /taxonomy/term/*/0

I would like to just remove all the /taxonomy/term/*/0 in all categories, for example:

/taxonomy/term/1/0
/taxonomy/term/2/0
/taxonomy/term/3/0
...

Thanks.

Hi! I'm new to Drupal, but am trying out the tips I see in this group. They've been very helpful.

I recently just moved my old site, www.amici.com.ph to Drupal. I still have to learn how to do themes soon. The old links that were indexed by google, I used htaccess to redirect to relevant pages of the new website. Since the old links redirect to new pages, won't they be treated as pages with duplicate content?

Thanks!

William

Today I discovered something disturbing: a bunch of pages of my Drupal 5 cruise guide site were missing from Google's index under the site name, and showed up under the IP address instead. Worse yet, Google has been known to penalize sites for duplicating content on a large scale - a real risk if it's seeing both the URL and the IP address. I did some digging, and I think I found a solution worth sharing.

I work on a cruise information site built in Drupal 5. In addition to a handy guide explaining the essentials of a 1st cruise, we lets users browse and share cruise ship pictures and cruise stories. We've given some thought to SEO, so I thought I'd share a few things we've learned....

Hi,

I am using Drupal 5.2, Cleanurls, Pathauto and Global Redirect enabled.
Drupal is throwing correct 404 in most cases, BUT
Drupal doesnt throw 404 for all urls with the following pattern:
http://example.com/myContentType/doesnotexist

You can see this Issue live:
http://drupal.org/forum/doesnotexist

Maybe this could be exploited by someone and hurt your SE rankings.
Has anyone a workaround for this? Or don't you see this as an issue?

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 think something that is badly needed for drupal SEO is a way to add nofollow tags selectively to a menu link.

The noindex idea is good but it doesn't really solve the intended problem. Even if a page is set to noindex and there is a link to it (which of course there is) link juice will be sent it's way. So in a way its actually worse. Your sending link juice to a page and then telling the SE's not to index it. Essentially sending your link juice to oblivian.

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: