SEO and Drupal
Can any one look at this site and tell me if there is a problem ie
duplicate content .
Peter Carey is very well known Australian author who now has his own
website, http://Petercareybooks.com
From a SEO perspective, he's his own worst competition because he's
been writing for many years, has over 20 books, one was made into a
movie, and he also won the Booker Prize for fiction twice. So there
are hundreds of sites he has to compete with even for his own name and
his book titles.
The site was made on Drupal which is very new to me, however the site
designer has been very helpful and together we've tried to make sure
there are no duplicate urls via aliases or www vs non www.
The first two weeks of index brought the keyphrase "peter carey" from
page 11 to 7 to 4 to page 2. Then all of a sudden he's gone. He still comes up for the phrase "peter
carey official website" which is his home page title, but who's going
to search for that.
Please comment on any info on Robots.txt with possible disallows. If I had my druthers I would like to google to crawl very specific pages only. ie all the Reviews pages for his book titles and his biblio page for his name, and disallow everything else. Is this unrealistic?
Thanks in advance.
Peter Weiss
http://websitebeautiful.com
I'm not an SEO expert, but
I'm not an SEO expert, but the front page is basically devoid of content. While it works graphically, a spider is going to crawl that page and won't really have anything to index. Once it follows the links, it will find content, but not until then.
Maybe something like general info about the writer and some current project snippets or something?
Thanks,
Caleb
http://www.education-finder.net
Simple thing to add is
Simple thing to add is pathauto to change the URLs.
EX.
http://petercareybooks.com/node/50
Would be
http://petercareybooks.com/THEFT-LOVE-STORY
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seo
Yes, lack of any machine-readable content on the front page is a problem. The suggestion to use Clean URLs is a good one, as well.
Only 1 of the 5 main pages actually has the words "Peter Carey" on it in plain-text form. You need more written content with your keywords in it. That's your biggest issue.
I don't see any major duplicate content issues at the moment, but if you do implement Clean URLs, you'll want to make sure the old /node/ URLs are redirected to the new URLs properly.
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John Forsythe
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Petercareybooks.com
The design of the front page is very good for the human eyes but the robots can not see any images, they only can see content, you should change the design and put some content on the front page so that, the robots get something from it, you also learn how to make the robots to visit all the inner pages.
Good Lock
Rafael Montilla
Mercadeoporinternet.com
page content
Google has indexed over a hundred pages including many with wonderful page content including
http://petercareybooks.com/node/4
http://petercareybooks.com/node/158
as potential landing pages for search queries. Do you think the fact that there is no content on the home page is keeping him out of search results?
Peter
ps all your posts are greatly appreciated
seo and drupal
Could some one please address the question raised on my very first post regarding
a robots.txt and disallowing every thing except the content rich pages? Is this possible? Is it advisable? how could it be accomplished using drupal?
Thanks!!!!
robots.txt
There's no Drupal module that interacts directly with robots.txt that I know of. You'd have to add the entries by hand. If Google has already found the pages in question, it's too late, they'll stay in the search index, you just won't get new visits from Googlebot to them. You could make a request through Google Webmaster Tools to have certain pages removed, but I wouldn't recommend it.
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John Forsythe
http://drupal.org/project/seo_checklist
You should also check out this module, which provides a helpful checklist of actions to improve your drupal site's SEO:
http://drupal.org/project/seo_checklist
I found this article helpful
I found this article helpful when preping a drupal site
http://www.crawlscore.com/blog/Drupal_redirects_and_optimising_crawling_...
Learning about SEO would
Learning about SEO would also help, at least the basics.
Google can find the dups for you.