Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.Add in some checking for pathauto settings to see if they are optimal for SEO. For example, the "Update Action" has these options:
Create a new alias. Leave the existing alias functioning.
Create a new alias. Delete the old alias.
And neither of these are good for SEO. The first ends up creating 2 pages with the same content. The second one can cause 404 errors.
Since the default is the 2nd option above, it's important to add in some checking for these and provide some guidance as to better choices.
Comments
Comment #1
kristen polJust checked in a pathauto report that checks the update action setting. Other things that could be added are:
* check node path settings to see if any don't have a slash (e.g. just [title-raw]) because these can cause problem (like if you created content with title "admin")
* check for paths with extensions due to naming conflict (e.g. content/foo, content/foo-0, content/foo-1, content/foo-2) - may want more distinct patterns to avoid such conflicts or can suggest unique fields module for enforcing uniqueness of content)
* add checkbox to allow notification (by email) if update action setting is changed (in case there are several users with permission to edit)
* check paths for weird/special characters
Comment #2
kristen polI will close until I decide what next to add.
Kristen
Comment #3
kristen polunassigning old issues