SEO

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

I'm working on backporting the comment permalinks from Drupal 7 to Drupal 6 and am curious what the SEO folks think about the way it works.

The code was added to Drupal 7 in this commit as a result of this issue which is really about making the "recent comments" links work properly regardless of which page comments are on.

What this code does is:

1. Create a new path - "comment/CID" which points to comment_permalink

Discussions - Links

Project Tracking

• Pivotal Tracker - http://www.pivotaltracker.com/
• Open Atrium - http://www.openatrium.com/

SEO

• SEO Checklist - http://drupal.org/project/seo_checklist

Theming - Misc

• Fusion - http://www.topnotchthemes.com/blog/090709/tnt-2-0-and-future-drupal-them...
• Top Drupal Dev Firms - http://developmentseed.com http://pingv.com/

Backup Migration and Legacy DB Support

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On Tuesday night at the Melbourne Drupal Meetup, there was some discussion on the relevance of meta tags in helping search engines classify content..

While RDF in core will move us a long way toward more relevant semantic data, the major search engines continue to work on their search algorithms...

I am working on a site (http://www.car-rental-salt-lake-city.com/) and am having issues with getting the Google robots to search and index it. This is a multisite installation on Drupal 6 with the RobotsTxt module (http://drupal.org/project/robotstxt) installed. The robots text file is located here: http://www.car-rental-salt-lake-city.com/robots.txt. It has been submitted using the Google Webmaster Tools, but still has not been indexed after 4 weeks.

Anyone with experience have any ideas as to what may be going on?

Thanks!

The video we captured is posted and linked off the Session pages.

http://boston.design4drupal.org

Titles with "+ Slides + Video" for example on the end will have those resources.

We hope that those that could not attend will enjoy some of the goodness we shared at MIT on June 13 and 14, 2009.

A special thanks to Sheeri Cabral and her assistant Ed Carlevale for their brilliant production work.

My new SEO Friend modules is available at:

http://drupal.org/project/seo_friend

The module is meant to be used with other Drupal SEO modules, particularly (for now) nodewords, nodewords_bypath, page_title, and pathauto.

I would love feedback and suggestions for new features.

Thanks,
Kristen

My SEO Friend module has been approved by drupal.org and is now available at:

http://drupal.org/project/seo_friend

Please let me know if you want any SEO-related features added.

Thanks!
Kristen

There is an SEO issue with Drupal's forums similar to the SEO problem with Drupal views where pages that don't exist still send a 200 OK header.

This is the correct URL of a Drupal forum:
drupal.org/forum/1

This non-existant URL also sends a 200 OK header when it should send a 404 Not Found header:
drupal.org/forum/1/asdf.html

An example of where this might cause problems is when you take a non-Drupal forum and convert it to a Drupal forum that has different URLs.

Hello all.

I recently did a post on a number of things I do to Drupal websites to help with SEO. I hope it helps people who are looking for this kind of stuff, and let me know if there's anything you feel should be addressed.

A Guide to Drupal SEO

Take care.
Dan