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Drupal - help it rank for PHP CMS

Posted by Boris Mann on October 21, 2005 at 10:56am

I was talking with some of the guys from the Jabber community today. They mentioned that they were doing searches for "PHP CMS" in Google, and not finding Drupal. Actually, it's on the bottom of the 3rd page of results.

So, if anyone is interested in playing along, just link to the front page of Drupal.org with the phrase "PHP CMS". That is, a link like this: PHP CMS. I made a post about this on my own site. Leave a link in the comments to your post.

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Googlebombing

Posted by Heine on October 21, 2005 at 11:38am

Drupal & Theme Sinorca. Simply added php cms...

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26th

Posted by Thox on October 21, 2005 at 12:00pm

Currently ranked 26th, I'm sure we can raise this a lot if we just get a few extra links in.

Drupal in excerpt of the first

Posted by Heine on October 21, 2005 at 12:35pm

When you search google (with php cms) you get as the first result + excerpt:

OpenSourceCMS - Home
To give you the opportunity to "try out" some of the best php/mysql based free and ... Drupal is an open source CMS with an active and dynamic community. ...

In a way Drupal is in the top spot.

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How about that adding that nice keywords module...

Posted by joel_guesclin on October 21, 2005 at 12:21pm

...so that every Drupal page contains "php cms" in the meta content keywords?

google does not xare about

Posted by chx on October 21, 2005 at 12:56pm

google does not xare about those...
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So, is the module useless or

Posted by venkat-rk on October 24, 2005 at 11:50am

So, is the module useless or is it for other search engines that take keywords into account? I honestly thought the module would help me.

Not useless

Posted by Boris Mann on October 24, 2005 at 2:48pm

Search engines still look at metadata, it just isn't used for determining ranking. Also, metadata is what search engines use to display a description underneath links. If you have no metadata, then the first bit of HTML is used, which is often just navigation links.

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Thanks for the explanation,

Posted by venkat-rk on October 26, 2005 at 6:56am

Thanks for the explanation, Boris.

how about this

Posted by bwynants on October 24, 2005 at 11:12am

very small module: http://www.goju-andy.be/metadata.zip

Drupal is now the #5 hit

Posted by Boris Mann on October 23, 2005 at 8:45pm

In 2 days, Drupal has risen to be the #5 hit for "PHP CMS". My post is the #1 hit for "PHP CMS Postgresql" (time to do more Postgresql work!). Thanks to everyone that linked...

PHP CMS

Posted by Thox on October 24, 2005 at 10:44am

I think it's funny that it's mostly this node which is giving it such a high rank. Maybe we should mention PHP CMS a little more?

Maybe not so funny

Posted by robertDouglass on October 25, 2005 at 9:03am

If people start to think that we're only there because of Googlebombing, instead of the actual quality of our software. Well, at least they found us. That's better than what happened for the Jabber folks who had never heard of Drupal despite having searched for a PHP/PostgreSQL CMS.

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We should also pay attention to PHP CMS MySQL

Posted by robertDouglass on October 24, 2005 at 12:09pm

Since Drupal is the best cms that runs on PHP and MySQL, we should make this fact known too.

<a href="http://www.drupal.org" title="Drupal is the Best CMS for PHP and MySQL">Drupal is the best cms that runs on PHP and MySQL</a>

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Taxonomy term links need a title attribute

Posted by robertDouglass on October 25, 2005 at 9:18am

This discussion made me realize that the taxonomy term links we generate are inadequate. They need title attributes and this should be based on the description that was given to the term when it is created. I rolled a patch that does just that, please review.

http://drupal.org/node/35178

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Freshmeat.net

Posted by robertDouglass on October 25, 2005 at 10:34am

Make sure that each of you goes over to Freshmeat.net, gets an account, votes for Drupal, and adds a comment describing what you like about the system. It is also another chance to use the keywords PHP, CMS, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/drupal/

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Pgsql and PostgreSQL

Posted by robertDouglass on October 25, 2005 at 12:55pm

Talk about keyword dillution!

We also need to think about the fact that Drupal is a great PHP CMS for PgSQL.

<a href="http://www.drupal.org" title="Drupal is a great PHP CMS for PgSQL">Drupal is a great PHP CMS for PgSQL</a>

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Free SEX

Posted by peterx on October 26, 2005 at 7:34am

According to Google, if we really want Drupal to rank high in search results, add the following links.

  1. Hurricane Wilma cannot damage a Drupal Web site.
  2. Madonna would love a sexy Drupal Web site.
  3. The national hurricane center could communicate better with a Drupal Web site.
  4. NOAA is a four letter acronym and Drupal is a fantastic content management system.
  5. Britney Spears baby looks better on a Drupal Web site.
  6. More men would like Jennifer Aniston if her Web site was powered by Drupal.
  7. The powerball of content management systems is Drupal.
  8. Cancun Web site administrators are blown away by Drupal.
  9. Drupal gives you more free time to play Quake 4.
  10. Batman Begins is the best Batman movie just as Drupal is the best content management system.
  11. When you use Drupal, you can have your Web site finished before the next world series.
  12. Even the actors in Doom could use a Drupal Web site.
  13. You do not have to saw your own leg off to get a Drupal Web site working.
  14. Pumpkin carving patterns fit better on a Drupal Web site.
  15. Charlize Theron looks better than my Drupal Web site.

Here are some other suggestions based on analysing my email.

http://petermoulding.com/technology/content_management_systems/drupal/

petermoulding.com/web_architect

Australia

Posted by peterx on October 26, 2005 at 7:41am

I just noticed Google has search engine request ranks for other countries. Here are links to help Drupal rank better in Australia.

beer
beer
beer

http://petermoulding.com/technology/content_management_systems/drupal/

petermoulding.com/web_architect

LOL

Posted by robertDouglass on October 26, 2005 at 9:33am

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This is both funny

Posted by William Mead on October 30, 2005 at 3:24am

...and sad at the same time

http://www.meaddesign.net

We're now #3 for PHP CMS MySQL - congrats everyone!

Posted by robertDouglass on October 26, 2005 at 9:34am

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Word order

Posted by Thox on October 26, 2005 at 9:55am

I think it's important to note that the order of words has a big effect on the search results:

* php cms mysql - 3rd
* mysql php cms - 3rd
* cms mysql php - 7th
* cms php mysql - 10th
* php mysql cms - 13th

* php cms - 5th
* cms php - 9th

Well, there is something one can do

Posted by robertDouglass on October 26, 2005 at 12:31pm

* php cms mysql - 3rd
* mysql php cms - 3rd
* cms mysql php - 7th
* cms php mysql - 10th
* php mysql cms - 13th

* php cms - 5th
* cms php - 9th

- Robert Douglass

Tell technorati as well:

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n2

Posted by bertboerland on October 30, 2005 at 9:59am

just a couple of extra links, and we can get the number 1 postion. now we are ranked two.
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Your topic is showing

Posted by simplulo on January 26, 2006 at 8:46pm

Except that you guys left this topic up, so that anyone who googles "best cms" comes here and finds out that you manipulated the results. This is not going to help me make the case in my CMS X vs. CMS Y discussions. Whatever happened to http://www.opensourcecms.com? :(

Sure it helps

Posted by Boris Mann on January 27, 2006 at 2:56am

It shows that Drupal is really well optimized to rank highly in Google. That should count for something...

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