By rogerwebb on

I have just completed rebuilding an old Powerpoint site on Drupal and now put the site pointers onto the Drupal site.

Under PP it was necessary to set up the meta tabs to encourage the browsers to find my site: but in the otherwise excellent documentation i find no reference to metatabs. My provided provides simple sea which generates the necessary tabs. 2 questions

1 Do I need metatabs in Drupal
2 If so how do i access the basic code to add them in

Also the sane excellent documentation says i must install a robots.txt file: but Drupal 5 seems to have put one there for me

Do i need to change it in any way?

Roger

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Comments

summit’s picture

summit commented

Hi,

You need to install the nodewords module.
This module takes care of the metatags description and keywords.
The module page_title takes care of the metatag title.

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Martijn
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elhombresinatributos commented

I never added meta tabs.

My site took almost 3 months to enter in google but now I'm absolutely amazed about the SEO positioning of my page in google. It's just incredible, we're always almost on top with a really lot of search strings and doing nothing special to achieve this position, even in searches with hundreds of thousands of results.

The only thing I did was using clean URL's.

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soupp commented

Drupal is naturally very good at SEO. Clean urls makes wonderful work in this terms.

Meta TAGs are not very used (or at very low priority) by major search engines nowadays. And the only tags really used by Google seems to be title and description which is generated by Drupal automatically (if supported with your theme from your site's title and mission).

The best you can do for SEO is to provide nice and unique content.

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rogerwebb commented

Thanks for your input

I'm just getting clean URLs - not that easy - and the documentation seems to apply to 4.7 not 5 where some of the files we are asked to create already seem to exist.

Do you use 5

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soupp commented

Well. I'm using clean URLs since Drupal 2.x to 5.1 :)

Getting clean URLs should not be a problem if your hosting environment supports mod_rewrite. You have to enable clean URLs at /admin/settings/clean-urls (in 5.x). Path module should be enabled as well. It is all in Drupal core. No additional files (modules) needed.

Then when you edit node you shall see "URL path settings" subform where you can enter you nice clean URL for this node. Advanced settings for taxonomy terms or any other URLs may be created at /admin/build/path

You may download install pathauto module as well to generate clean URLs automatically.

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