Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines via the "natural" or un-paid ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results.
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Is there a bulk method of doing 301 redirects from old nodes to new node pages?
I am updating an old drupal 7 site and many of the old nodes now have newer counter parts with new nodes. Since alot of my old nodes have already been spider-ed, I want to do a 301 redirect to the new ...
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Views gives 200 instead of 404 if incorrect argument and a pager is present
I am using with success the global null variable as described here
How do I set my views to return a 404 using Global: Null under contextual filters?
The solution by Kiam works fine, until a pager ...
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XML Sitemap for Media
I'm looking for a module, that creates a special sitemap for media (using the Drupal Media 2 module).
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Content is deleted But URL still crawled by google [closed]
I have deleted some content from my website,
but google search still shows me that content's url ,
after clicking on that url i get page not found error,
please give me any link of drupal ...
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Nodewords module and canonical urls https to http protocol
I have installed Nodewords module but I found out that it either creates canonical urls automatically (if you are on https site then canonical url would be https) or you can manually put url inside ...
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2 problems with XML sitemap module
the module doubles every link in the map which leads to a node by it's alias.
the map shows nodes (instead of alias links only).
A link to the map.
How could i solve it? thanks.
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Page not found SEO
Drupal offers us the possibility to set the 404 page displayed for the end users (this can be set in the admin configuration).
Ex : If you type
http://www.example.com/doesntexist
you are ...
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Exclude domain in robots.txt
Is it possible to exclude a domain name in robots.txt?
I have a single Drupal site with multiple domains pointing on it. For example our dev and staging server are being crawled by Google when our ...
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Should block titles be <h2>?
These <h2> heading tags, in the canonical sense, should be used as headings only, right?
In Drupal, it seems these block headings get <h2> tags, but they aren't semantic headings insofar ...
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How can I add keywords in my site without module?
I'm using Drupal 7 and want to add meta tags in my theme. How can i do it without any module?
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Drupal 7 Pages/Panels Title/Meta Description Tag
I have created a profile page showing a bunch of Profile2 views collected in a panel page. I cannot seem to find the correct way to, let's say, get the first and last name of one of the views and use ...
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Why is Drupal adding token on image url
When I'm use the image_style_url(), function I got this token at the end of the URL: ?itok=yjoxJwQh.
Drupal uses a different token for styles and script, eg ?mk4o7m.
How does this affect caching and ...
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What meaning do the primary / secondary menu links have when it comes to SEO?
Is there some meaningful difference between the primary / secondary links when it comes to SEO? Do they carry a different weight from a search engines perspective?
Thank you!
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How to force the canonical URL to use http?
On our page we use the Meta tags-Modul to show a canonical meta tag. In the configuration we use the [current-page:url:absolute] token. This works fine, but the problem is, that whether the page gets ...
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How to use different meta details for English frontpage
I have set up a multilingual website using D7.
Now I have two front pages:
Chinese
and English.
I have added meta info for front pages in:
Configuration -> Search and Metadata -> Meta ...
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Inclusion of SEO related to content in the header using structured microdata
I am currently looking at the SEO of our site, and I will be using schema.org microdata in the head and 'rich snippets', as well as including facebook opengraph data. What is the best way to include ...
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Design query for job site using subdomains
I'm designing a job site in D7. Ideally for better SEO each state or city should be in separate subdomain(this what I've learnt).
For city Paris it'd look like: paris.myjobsite.com
I'd post jobs ...
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Should I rewrite my links into aliases?
Is it of any advantage, in addition to using Global Redirect, to rewrite html links from /node/nid to /article/this-is-the-title, even though in both cases traffic is directed to ...
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alternatives to WordStream api [closed]
As support to WordStream api for drupal has ben discontinued. I want to know what are the best alternatives for it, I have installed seo tools module and WordStream is a dependency for it, what should ...
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How to deal with deleted posts: Returning 410 status and preventing path re-use
For my jobs site, I want to return 410 status for those jobs which expire or are removed permanently. How can I do it so that 410 instead of 404 is returned for say job related node types( they'll be ...
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234 views
SEO Friendly exposed filter view
I have created a view, with few exposed filter in it. It is working fine, but I when I filter view using some exposed filter, it appends query string to URL ie
...
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Can I remove “Disallow: /?q=search/” and “Disallow: /search/” from robots.txt
Sometimes when I search in Google, there is site's internal search box below results (Internal Search Box Displayed in Google Sitelinks).
I think showing this box needs some configuration on "URL ...
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Total indexed is zero with 302 status
I'm using Google Webmaster Tools to manage my site SEO; even with 600 articles my total indexed pages is zero.
When I use "Fetch as Google" I get the following.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC ...
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How do I add rel=“nofollow” to links in blocks/menus/etc?
I want to add rel="nofollow" attributes to links that point to login/ToS pages in my Drupal 7 site. How can this be accomplished?
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361 views
Drupal 7 SEO - What are recommended modules and practices for SEO on Drupal 7? [closed]
Looking for anyones recommendations on modules and best practices for Drupal 7 search engine optimization. Also anything that people have found to hurt their SEO on Drupal 7, things to avoid as well ...
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Using taxonomies to enhance SEO: Hard Situation
I am working on a site that the client required a dynamic url creation for a huge number of keywords for each city (for example). So the result url would be like www.domain.com/city/citname/keyword.
...
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Global Redirect and www.example.com/node? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Disable node summary page on /node path
Noticed various node paths being indexed by google. So I'm using the Global Redirect module to redirect node/1 type paths to ...
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What are the implications of duplicate content issues with Drupal comments?
Say we have a node called node/123 with comments enabled. When comments are made, additional URLs are generated /comment/1, /comment/2 ... and /comment/reply/2/1 etc. Unfortunately, these new URLs are ...
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How do I set my views to return a 404 using Global: Null under contextual filters?
Standard Drupal behavior is to pass all arguments through, whether or not they requested. Sometimes this behavior is desired. However, I need to return a 404 for anything but a query string.
Example ...
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Override header status of pages?
My site is not being indexed by google.. when I check it with Google Webmaster tools I get:
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:37:43 GMT
Server: Apache
Expires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 ...
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3answers
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How do I manage 404s for old paths after moving to Drupal?
We moved to Drupal from another CMS about a year ago, and we still get 100s of "page not found" log entries each day for paths that were for our old site that don't exist on the new site. By checking ...
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Should I disallow drupal path or alias by robots.txt?
I have 2 languages enabled on my site English and Japanese.
Japanese is the default and English has prefix "en".
I want search engines to crawl one View page only in Japanese.
So I decided to use ...
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How to add noindex / nofollow robot metatags to Views subpages
I have a big view with lots of filters, and Google and friends are killing one of my sites after a cache clear.
How could I add noindex and nofollow metatags in this views' subpages header? I would ...
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How to Optimize a Drupal site specially commerce site to Search Engines? Secondly is drupal Search Engine Friendly? [closed]
I want to lean about search engine optimization aspects of a Drupal site, there are CMS like Wordpress which is most friendly for search engines, sites built on WP rank well on SEs.
is Drupal really ...
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Google can not connect to the server?
Google Webmaster's tool tells me on a site that "Request timed out or site is blocking Google". On that site. I am wondering how to fix this.
Probably relevant info: I'm using Varnish in front of ...
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How should I deal with Views URL parameter “page” in Google web master tool?
I have node view which has pager with URL parameter "page". I want Google bot crawls all the pages ( page=1 page=2 page=3... ) but regard all of them as just one and only the first page (without ...
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Does a user profile using profile2 work with the metatags module?
I am using the profile2 module. I am looking for a way to set my meta tags based on user profile type. For example, I have teachers, students, and parents as profile types and each of their profiles ...
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modules for building ajax application and friendly urls?
I'm building an ajax application using drupal 7, i found a module with some help ajax_nodeloader, but also i need load panel pages, views, etc.
Until now i'm overriding template theme file (zen) for ...
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How do you order meta tags added by drupal_add_html_head()?
I'm adding Open Graph support to a Drupal site and I have a bunch of drupal_add_html_head() calls, like:
$og_title = array(
'#tag' => 'meta',
'#attributes' => array(
'property' ...
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How do I add unique page titles and meta titles to paginated views pages?
I have overridden the taxonomy term pages with a view, and I want to be able to set the page title, both visible and meta, with unique titles for each page within the pager for SEO purposes. I am ...
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3answers
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How to add canonical links on ALL URL's?
What is the best way to get canonical links on ALL URL's in D7?
I see nodes already have relative canonicals but I have a site with a lot of non node URL's that also need canonicals.
I added code to ...
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How do I make a page available via only a single URL?
Is there a way to make the front page available via only a single URL?
The normal method is to use a <link rel="canonical"> meta tag, but this is not good for SEO.
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Exist any way to integrate Google Rich Snippets in D6?
I have a dilemma with the topic of Google Rich Snippets in drupal 6.
Looking, no module to do so (Yes in Drupal 7, but work with drupal 6) and looking not find any solution. (I use Fivestar on my ...
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CDN, SEO and image styles: 301 on GET request
Recently I installed the CDN module. To avoid duplicate content I added a RewriteRule to my Apache config:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(^/(.*)(.js|.css|.jpg|.jpeg|.gif|.png)) [NC]
RewriteCond ...
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Can Google Bot Crawl authenticated pages?
I am using Organic Groups and most of the pages i.e Discussions and related pages are only accessible to an authenticated user, can google bot crawl all these pages as well or is thrown a 403 error ?
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Convert link to node/nid to Pathauto url?
Im using Pathauto to make my URLs nice and I may want to change the paths in the future. On some pages Im manually lining to other nodes.
The issue is that if I code the nice URL then the link will ...
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How to set node title as breadcrumb?
At first I'm not very familiar with drupal. So please don't downvote me if I use the wrong terms.
How can I set the breadcrump for a node?
I have a node which is in the menu and also the head menu ...
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Allow robots to index the image files
What line will I add in my robots.txt file so that Google and other bots can index my images under /sites/default/files/images/ ?
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How do I create a Drupal 7 multilanguage frontpage including SEO?
What is the best solution for creating a multi language homepage with Drupal 7?
I am using the modules 'Meta tags, 'Internationalization' and 'Variable'.
In the Multilingual setting ...
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How do I allow other files in the root directory of my Drupal site to be accessible?
Alright so I've noticed that the .txt files in the root directory of my Drupal install are accessible just using http://drupalsite.com/SOMETHING.txt, but when I try to add other .txt files, I get a ...
