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Love the content on your site, really helpful. Performance could use a bit of a boost though. Boost module should really help. You serve mainly static content to anon users, so Boost would make your site perform like a static html site - wouldn't even need to load php.

P.S.: Who do you host with/which plan? Good to know - best judge of performance is watching a real live site over time.

Kristen,

I followed your instructions and it appears to be working correctly with no problems. The full URL is showing up in the header.

Also, I don't know if it was just a coincidence, but Google has indexed almost 30 more links since I did this and I have 5 more links with Clickthroughs.

Thanks for the help.

Bob

I am grateful that you are doing the work you do. While I am still struggling in the shock and awe phase of figuring out the basics of drupal, I can discern that you took on the most complex (and therefore most useful) projects when you created the SEO Friend and Featured Content modules. I will visit Kristen.org often for guidance because of your clear and concise writing style. Naturebridge.org was inspirational as an example of what can be accomplished. The "do good" nature of you projects is very telling about you.

Put me down as a fan,
Kelly Downs

Glad to hear it's working in views 3, and thanks for the extra tip for excluding the currently viewed node.

Kristen

Thank You for this sweet piece of code. I have been looking for something like this for a while & also cannot believe that this works with both views 2 & views 3. Great job.

To not display the current node you are on in the view (since this is for related nodes& therefore it should not include the actual node itself) - add a new argument - node:nid - default argument: node id from url - exclude this

Kristen,

Thanks for the reply. I think I have most of this set up, but the "nodewords" or meta data module has a lot of settings and the documentation for it is not very clear. I'm in the process of going back through my entire site and updating the meta data on each node, but it is all the different entries under the default and specific meta tags that are confusing.

For example, under the Front Page, the block for entering your Canonical URL. It says to use a relative URL, but that does not make sense since this URL would be the home page or bobsdailyblog.com.

Oh, well things are moving along I think since the number of visitors is being to increase and my Google webmaster tools are not showing any problems yet.

Thanks for the help.

Bob

Hi Kristen,

First I want to thank you for developing this module. It really helps a SEO novice like me, WOW there are a lot of modules to add.

The first thing I want to mention is about your module is I'm receiving the following error when I click on the "Meta Tags (node) Report"
warning: Illegal offset type in /####/#####/public_html/sites/all/modules/seo_friend/seo_friend.admin.inc on line 485

The next thing is I have two questions.

1. I have "Global Redirect" loaded, but your model says I should also load "path_redirect" however, there is a critical compatibility issues with that module and the Global Redirect 6.12. Is there a way to check for duplicate paths?

2. Do you know how much of this SEO stuff will be added to the core of the new Drupal 7 version?

Thanks

Bob

I'll try them out ;)

Kristen

This is in the latest release.

Kristen

You actually have to have the site on the other server set up already with Drupal and with Backup & Migrate installed in order to use Backup & Migrate to install the original site tables over. You go to the new site and choose to install the file you have saved from your original site. The downside of this is that you actually need to have installed Drupal first.

The alternative would be to use whatever mysql tool you have available from your new hosting provider and do the following:

1) create database with name that you want (could be different name than original site if you want)

2) use mysql tool provided to import the tables in the sql file from the original site backup

3) copy all code over to new doc root

4) change settings.php at new site to point to new database

Then you are done. The latter method makes more sense when setting up a new site based on an old one.

Good luck,
Kristen

You are not stupid ;) There is a distinction between adding meta tags to node pages vs. non-node pages.

With the node page, it is obvious because the node edit form has the meta tags fields on it. With non-node pages, you have to go through the meta tags interface (or for old versions use the nodewords by path module) and configure them by the path or by "front".

Thanks for taking the time to write this up because I'm sure it will help someone.

Kristen

For meta tags, the only really important one these days is the meta description tag because some search engines will show this text in the search result. This is your "advertisement" to the user so write something to entice them to click on your result.

Other meta tags aren't important unless you want to use something like "nofollow" or "noindex" or other information to tell the search engine that you want it to treat the page in a special way.

As for "keywords", I am using the phrase in a general sense. Just the words you would choose to use on the page that you are hoping to get search engines to associated with your page.

The nodewords (meta tags) module does let you specify meta keywords. I personally still do these but it's more for "keeping notes" so you remember what keywords you are focusing on for your page. Some small search engines may still use these as well.

For Drupal, you can use vocabulary terms to help add keywords to your page, but I think it's best to just add the keywords you want to focus on to:

• browser/page title
• node title
• body text - or other text fields

Hope that helps.
Kristen