Best Modules for SEO Friendly Drupal site

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.

 

XML sitemap modul is very important

 

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

 

nodeword module?

 

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.

 

how about related content ?
i think it will be better

 

Check this post http://mydrupal.com/drupal-seo-tips-modules-tricks

 

1. Clean urls enabled
2. XML sitemap
3. Nodewords

 

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.

 

http://drupal.org/project/nodewords

Code (markup):

 

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.

 

Path, Pathauto, sitemap and sometimes nodewords.

 

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)

 

Is this a joke ? Because I never get any problem with pathauto in live websites