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By nancydru on
In terms of search engine optimization, which technique is better:
- A multi-level navigation menu.
- A book with book navigation block turned on.
- A set of stories listed with a taxonomy term.
I'm not sure that I can see that a search engine would disinguish much between the first two. But I'm wondering about how well they would see the meta tags of the third one.
Since I am am migrating to 5.1 from 4.7.4, I have the opportunity to revisit this question.
Thanks,
Nancy
Comments
Taxnomy terms work great
I think taxonomy terms work really great with google. If you have severall stories with the same taxonomy, you will get more hits on that specific word so you rank in google will get higher.
Wondering
With the terms being displayed on the header of each story, would the search engines view that as keyword stuffing?
Nancy W.
now running 4 sites on Drupal so far
NancyDru
Depends on other Implementation specifics
I'm fairly sure that any of your 3 options ALONE would have no affect on the meta tags presented in the page source.
Get the nodewords module. With this and a couple of taxonomy vocabs you can control the meta tags fairly specifically regardless of the navigation implementation.
Another option to "help" your SEO attempts would be pathauto configured to alias in the menu structure from any of your navigation structures. This would enable "keywords" in each page url.
Should have said
I should have explained that I am using the Nodewords module. I also use URL Aliases on everything (but I do not like what Pathauto does) using the core Path module, so URLs contain keywords and look more "normal."
BTW, how does one nominate Nodewords to become core in 6.0?
Nancy W.
proudly running 3½ sites on Drupal so far
NancyDru