Drupalers,
I really need your help. I'm impressed with Drupal and I have migrated one of my site. Now, my company want to migrate its website to Drupal. It is a multi language website. The problem is: the site already has good pagerank and we don't want to risk the pagerank.
Here's some details of the migration:
- The site is a multi language site which has 2 languages:
fr.example.com and www.example.com
- We've built a drupal version of the site in a development server computer. The URLS are the same with previos URL (before the migration): fr.example.com and www.example.com
- Both website (fr.example.com and www.example.com) use one drupal installation with 2 settings:
/sites/fr.example.com/... and /sites/example.com/...
What steps do I need to do?
Thank you very much for your help. I really need it.
Newbie Drupalers.
Comments
Some tips
Sounds like you're doing pretty good so far.
The internationalization module will help you with multiple languages. It can be difficult to install, and last I checked was a 4.6 module (so make a 4.6 site, it is easier and more stable which sounds like what you need). But once installed, it seems to work very well, and the implementation into Drupal is really nice. Only the URLs are slightly different than you describe, but maybe that's acceptable?
Also install the google gsitemap module, so you can tweak your page rank to your older specs. That's a super easy one to install, so I suggest you simply do that to get an idea how to deal with it.
Follow these rules for SEO, and no doubt someone else will suggest something too.
http://www.ssw.com.au/SSW/Standards/Rules/RulestoBetterGoogleRankings.aspx
Good Luck!
Sorry, I forgot to tell some points about the i18n module
Sorry, I forgot to tell some points about the i18n module. I've installed it and try it in my first website. It works very very good. We can translate every page. The URLs are: www.example1.com and www.example1.com/fr
But, the case with the second website (our company website) is different. Both sites have different pages. Actually, both are different website. They have different content. There's some contents that are available only in one language. (So... I don't use i18n module for the second website.) Each website targetting different market. For example: We sell french coffee in fr.example.com but we don't sell it in www.example.com
Thanks.
--> There's some contents
--> There's some contents that are available only in one language.
My understanding is that the il8n module provides for this. Check the settings for il8n, and this option is towards the bottom of the page.
This aspect isn't documented very well, as far as I can tell.
I'm undergoing a similar installation currently, so I'll pay attention and try to update this message with what I find. I expect to take about a week to do this aspect done in my own project.
Very Good Info
That's a very good info. I don't know about that. I'll check it.
And I also would like to know the progress of your installations. Thank you SpzToid
I can report that the 4.6
I can report that the 4.6 module works great, as best as one would hope. Doesn't get any better than that, really. I hope you enjoy similar success.