Hi, Lately I have seen some folks discussing how to properly prepare a drupal site for on-site SEO..I was surprised many were not aware of some modules that make your Drupal SEO very easy... Install the following modules and you will have clean urls, the ability to customize page titles, add custom meta tags (for google webmaster verification, etc), and control page descriptions. Pathauto - Used along with the core module, Path. Will automatically generate clean url's for your site. (requires mod_rewrite installed on your host...make sure you have a host that supports this) Nodewords - This module will allow you to set your meta tags and create custome tags for verification purposes. Page Title - This one lets you customize the page title for each node. You can set them to whatever keywords you like and/or use existing Drupal tokens. I also use the Google Analytics module as an easy way to add analytics info to each page. Other things to be aware of..I also will tweak my .htaccess file to force any request as domain.com/whatever to rewrite as www.domain.com/whatever... helps for analytical purposes. Doing that is easy.. just open your .htaccess file and uncomment out the following: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301] and replace example with your domain name. ..If you do the above your site will be ready for your on-site SEO work, with the exception of handling your <h1> tags..but that involves playing with the page and node tpl's...which is for another day.
There is SEO check lsit MODULE - nice for begginers in SEO, cover everithing check this video this is SEO DRUPAL FAQ http://www.dogstar.org/drupal/content/drupal-6-seo-drupalcamp-colorado
There are lots of modules like Meta tags Site verification which can be used to verify your site with Bing Yahoo Google. But the real pain lies in setting the SE friendly Urls for yours site. You have to be very careful with that.
Pathauto isn't critical but it really really makes things nicer. I have an old, large, messy drupal site and have set up pathauto to give me a half-decent URL based on the node type and a bunch of other stuff automatically. I couldn't survive without this module.
hi, these are the following modules used for SEO purposes: path path auto toke nodewords sitemap xml sitemap
The best Modules for SEO Friendly Drupal site are ; Path path auto token node words, site map XTML site map. Meta tag module Custom breadcrumbs module Search 404 module
Does anybody have a link to a Drupal site or two? I've been using Wordpress but I'm thinking about using Drupal for some of my new sites only I don't even know what they look like. Cheers
try this one FondswervingOnline.nl straight from drupal.org featured website, you can find more in drupal.org front page
Thank you for the link. That particular theme is also very interesting.. it has a very open feel to it.
yes, but on live website be careful when install pathauto. I have to deactivate this module, because there is problem with node permission. (/admin/content/node-settings)