Best theme for Seo
insomoz - September 23, 2005 - 07:02
What are your thoughts on the theme most likely to produce the best SEO results thats implemented on a new webpage.
I managed good results with some of the defailt xtemplate themes and also (php template) lincolns revenge but im thinking maybe some themes like interlaced or wireframe could produce better results.
Bluemarine
I use a customized design based on the bluemarine theme for phptemplate and my statistics says: Search engines like it ;-)
But I think the most important part for SEO are searchfriendly url you get with the drupal clean-url and not the design.
with kind regards, holger
www.ebec.net | www.stnetwork.de
But have you tried other
But have you tried other templates to determine which is best?
bluemarine and DC metatasks
The basic template on my websites is the bluemarine design for phptemplate http://drupal.org/project/bluemarine
The metatasks are based on dublincore DC http://dublincore.org
with kind regards, holger
www.ebec.net | www.stnetwork.de
I agree with Holger
I consider that as long as the theme is well written and doesn't contain any errors, there's little that a template can do to improve SEO results. Still, i edited some themes to replace alt's of the node's title to match whatever keyword i was targeting.
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Duplika
I think skip to content is
I think skip to content is essential.
There is also h2 tags and h3 tags title, giving preference to these tags in your design, will give you another added boost.
I believe that only 10% of the themes offer both these features.
Though thanks for the tip on dublin core, I've noticed some good performing sites using this technique.
Here's some good tips on SEO
http://www.netconcepts.com/learn/SEOBestAndWorstPractices.pdf
I just heard a great lecture on SEO from Stephen Spencer ( http://www.stephanspencer.com/ ). He pointed us to the above pdf.
Hope it helps ya.
Harnak
Accessibility
Using a theme that is accessible should improve the chances of a site being more visible to search engines.
For instance, the Pushbutton theme:
http://www.cortextcommunications.com/pushbutton
sources
Robert youre right.
A good way in my opinion is also, to look at the sources (german: Quelltext) of websites with pagerank 10 -> 8 and you will see what google likes ;-)
Examples:
http://www.webstandards.org/
http://www.zeldman.com/
with kind regards, holger
www.ebec.net | www.stnetwork.de
articles to SEO optimizing
many articles to SEO optimizing you find in german at http://www.abakus-internet-marketing.de/foren/
with friendly regards, holger
www.stnetwork.de
Accessible Themes
This is quite an old post, but it comes up rather high in Drupal. Worth noting that the push button link provided by Robert Castelo no longer works.
I do have a list of more accessible Drupal 6 thmes that I've put together though. Having one that validates would be a good start.
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Agree with the others
I don't see much that the theme can do to improve search engine ranking. What's most important is using clean URL's. So much so that I wonder why drupal insists on using '?q=xxx' and why not just do clean URL's out of the box w/o having to require that mod_rewrite hack?
Anyway ... Now that I've probably offended the core team ...
There is one thing which I see that's theme related. It's the placement of the navigational menus.
How I gauged this is through the content of my adsense advertising. The rule of thumb I follow is if the adsense choices are unrelated to the content on a page that's clearly topicalized, then something else is wrong.
What I noticed is that ... for the typical theme (I'm using slash_green) ... if you place your blocks on the left, then the text for your blocks appear early in the pages. It's fairly well understood that the search engines have a hard time groping around to learn what your real content is. So it's best to put your real content early in the text of the page, rather than late. But having the blocks appear first gets in the way of that.
It was simple enough to edit the blocks config so they all showed up on the right rather than the left. That put the page content before the blocks in the page text.
The next thing I did was notice ... I use a module that generates a block showing the topic hierarchy of the current blog posting ... the links in that block have alt= attributes that contain the full text of the blog posting. That can't help in several ways, such as it increases data sent to the client therefore decreasing website responsiveness, plus it adds text to the page that's unrelated to the actual page content and it might skew the search engine algorithms.
Another aspect to this problem is that the page designs are TABLE related. Hence, the left hand blocks have to appear first because that's the way TABLE's are laid out. On the other hand, if pages were laid out using CSS then one could do
<div class="content">...
</div>
<div class="blocks-left">
... output blocks for left column
</div>
<div class="blocks-right">
... output blocks for right column
</div>
I've never been able to accomplish this, but I understand that with CSS one is supposed to be able to place any div anywhere regardless of when it appears in the text. Therefore with the right CSS definitions one could place the blocks-left and blocks-right as columns surrounding the content div.
- David Herron - http://7gen.com/
source ordering
check out:
http://webhost.bridgew.edu/etribou/layouts/skidoo_too/
this page discusses a bit about seo and css, and illustrates how to create a style sheet allowing a content div to occur before a left-side div. It manages to do its magic by floating various containers to and fro but accomplishes ordering the source content-first. I have successfully managed to customize the theme and convert it to a wordpress theme, drupal is next..
-o
good SEO results with DRUPAL
I think most important for good SEO results with DRUPAL are the clean-urls, w3c-friendly sources and web-standards, a good title for every article or node and generally good text-content for your visitors.
with kind regards, holger
www.ebec.net | www.stnetwork.de
if accessabilty is the key
Well if accessabilty is the key, therefore friendselectic would work well.
Out of the box its strict xhtml compliant, navigation works a treat, gallery2 integrates pefectly and uses h1 tags for titles, only thing that i would do is add a "skip to content section", so that the search bots can find the relevant information first.
though its an easy css hack, so no issues there
thankyou steve
Adsense content targeting tags
If you feel theme hacking is too cumbersome/difficult, It's also possible to use section targeting tags, either positive or negative. e.g.
You may want to include:
<!-- google_ad_section_start -->
<!-- google_ad_section_end -->
when you write a node to direct the crawlers attention to content rather than navigation or you may want the crawler to ignore the navigation by using the start tag:
<!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) -->https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/answer.py?answer=23168&topic=371
google
Nice ;-) Thank you!
with kind regards, holger
www.ebec.net | www.stnetwork.de
Two opinions: 1. Drupal
Two opinions:
1. Drupal designed tofit for searching engineering very well.
2. There are lots of modules for drupal to do great in SEO.
The two template are great for seo too with my exp.
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