By dailypress on

Any recommendations on how to make Drupal sites more SEO friendly?

I am trying to bring in more Google traffic...any help is appreciated.

my personal experience: downloading Meta Tag module and SEO friendly module helps.

any other advice?

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Cool_Goose commented

I hope you have pathauto installed and configured.

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marcvangend
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There is lots and lots of information about this, just search for it.
http://drupal.org/search/apachesolr_search/seo
http://www.google.com/search?q=drupal+seo

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dailypress commented

yes PathAuto is another one. :) I forgot to mention that one.

any other thing you can think of? here is what I found:

Enable Clean URLs
Enable Path Module and install and enable Pathauto, Global Redirect and Token Modules.
Configure the Pathauto Module
Install and enable the Meta Tags Module.
Install enable the Page Title Module
Do NOT install the Drupal Sitemap Module.
Fix .htaccess to redirect to "www" or remove the "www" subdomain.
Fix your theme's HTML headers if they aren't right
Recommended: create a custom front page
Modify your robots.txt file.

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Drupalace-1 commented

What's the story on the Drupal Sitemap Module?

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marcvangend
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Location Amsterdam
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Don't forget your theme can also help SEO. Most sites I make are based on the Zen theme. The document structure of Zen is optimized for SEO: http://drupal.org/node/201428.

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dailypress commented

marcvangend: excellent point!

Im not sure about the sitemap. I just got that from the link above.

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ben finklea commented

It has a list of everything you need to do and helps you to keep track of things that you've already done:

Drupal SEO Checklist

--Ben Finklea, CEO
Volacci

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Drupalace-1 commented

FYI, I've been making my own "manual" for SEO, traffic generation, etc. What I'm trying to do is boil down the tons of advice and info I find out there, into a simple manual and to-do list for my sites.

It's still in progress, and it'll keep changing as I apply the advice to my own sites, but FWIW you can see my manual online:

http://www.drupalace.com/STARDOM
The page http://www.drupalace.com/STARDOM/SEO is most focused on SEO, but many other pages address it too; the activities that can be filed under SEO are really broad!

I welcome corrections and additions. I'd like it to be useful for any Drupaler trying to achieve goals with a site.