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- BADCamp Drupal SEO Presentation 2009
- Drupal Meta Tags (nodewords) Module for SEO
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I am deleting mass content from a site and i need to delete all the unused aliases,
could you please provide me a way to delete them?
i am near 200.000 aliases and the drupal keeps being out of memory with almost 70mb php execution size :((((((((
For each content type, you have to make sure to check the checkbox:
"Allow editing of meta tags"
on the content type settings form, e.g.
http://[domain]/admin/content/node-type/forum
Cheers,
Kristen
Hi,
I followed the instructions correctly, however i could not see the meta tags fields while I am editing a node as authenticated user. I could see meta tag fields as administrator but not as registered member.
I have given permissions to authenticated users to edit meta tags for keywords and description, but could not get them while node edit. I have all custom content types.
please help me.
If you want the aliases to be updated, then you shouldn't use "Do nothing. Leave the old alias intact" because it will leave the alias to whatever was first created.
If you haven't gone live, you can temporarily set it to "create new alias, delete old alias" and then use the admin/content/node page to update all the aliases in bulk so they are all current.
Then switch the pathauto update setting to whatever is appropriate for your site (e.g. do nothing, or update and redirect).
Good luck,
Kristen
Hi,
I have a site that's not yet live yet, and I wanted to change my pathauto settings after already creating some content. Is it safe to use pathauto to delete all the aliases and then recreate them? For some reason the "Do nothing. Leave the old alias intact" option is not working - the aliases do not change. Thanks!
Wow, that was an easy to get started on Drupal SEO - thanks for putting a list of all the best modules in one place. Really appreciate it.
:)
Yes, unless you have some serious money, your Drupal site is likely to be slow. There are some performance tweaks you can do but for a real fast site, these things can be expensive.
Here are some performance tips: http://www.kristen.org/content/high-performance-drupal-steps
Cheers,
Kristen
What Drupal site isn't slow?
I vaguely recall trying to put it in the header before and it not working and it *not* working, but am not 100% positive about that. It depends on the theme, but it should really work in either spot for any proper theme.
You can put it in the footer if you are using any contrib theme because the theme will print out $footer and it will end up there. It doesn't matter if you have anything else in the footer.
If you created your own theme, you really need to make sure to do:
print $footer;
print $closure;
in the correct spots or some modules will not work (e.g. admin_menu).
Good luck,
Kristen
Kristen, if you are still there I would appreciate some help!
I have installed the ga module, and as admin user can go to the configuration page, where I have inserted the UA-xxxx-x code.
Nevertheless, my page code still doesn't show the code.
I have selected to place it in the header because I don´t use a footer. Could this be part of the problem?
Do you know of any imcompatibilities with other commonly used modules?
Thanks a lot!
A Drupal lover.
Good website
https://www.drupal.org/project/seowatcher
i hav jus gone through that its nice and thanks for this
I did the same test about 3 months ago as I was curious whether google would track the redirect in analytics. I started with the main site, but then it got too confusing because 1 sites analytics changed however the redirect numbers didnt change in line with the redirect. How did you go in the end?
ya i believe.. Drupal is SEO friendly.. Drupal component with the help of a few modules, makes it easy for you to do the things that tend to result in a higher rate of search engine success. In other words, Drupal makes it easy to practice good SEO.
Kristen,
Thanks for taking the time to put together this list.
You might also want to check out the Content Analysis module and its SEO and keyword analyzers and tools.
How can I make page that will act as a first page which means that I can add desired content on the way that I do it with "promoted to front page" in publishing options. Is there any options where I can make other option "promoted to second page" or something similar with same results? Please help and sorry if I post it in a wrong section!
Thanks :)
Hi,
I'm new to drupal, and have learned a lot from your site. Thanks for the great info.
I recently took over the SEO for a site, and gave aliases to the URLs as per your instructions here and for pathauto.
the new URLs are mysite/name (without the "content", which I removed from the URLs manually.
When I check the new url in http://www.searchenginepromotionhelp.com/m/http-server-response/code-che..., I still get a 200 code.
Any tips?
Thanks so much for your help,
Brian
Wow, I'm surprised that such a big company like Disney would make that mistake!
I found out about this the hard way as well back in 2004 when I was just learning about this stuff.
Fortunately for Disney, I bet their pages get re-indexed within a few days. For the site I was working on, it took *months*.
Kristen
Disney could have used this last week :) They're site was down for maintenance and the downed site version got indexed in Google which said something like "...come back later site is down..." and that showed up in search results. The problem was that there site was back online but that still showed in Google for several days till they were recrawled! Och!
Hey thanks a lot for sharing such a nice and informative article,
Footers are of two types(as of now.)
1 – The traditional small text footers(like you see here) mostly with the copyright text and a few email links etc.
2 – The bigger,evident web2.0 style footer text with category links and content.
If you have the first type of footer – nothing wrong.In fact it’s easier to tweak to a crawler and get our stuff done.But if you have the second type of footer(web 2.0 style), then you have an advantage – you attract the crawlers as well as human visitors – the golden rule of SEO!
Thanks Kristen,
Perfect example of an easy to follow quick tutoral - exactly what I needed this morning.
Phil
Keep reloading the page, the node count keeps incrementing. Is there any solution for this ?
Thanks. Very clear and easy to follow. I know what I'm doing now.
really nice post, thanking you
Hey thanks a lot for sharing such a nice and informative article , really a very nice and detailed review which is very helpful.
By the way for more information on Seo Tips and Tricks check this link: seo tips and tricks
You will need to be user #1 (uid=1) or have administer users permission in order to go to the admin/user/permissions page and see the Google Analytics permissions. If you don't have access to the user #1 account, you will need to contact that person and ask them to give you permission to administer GA.
Good luck!
Kristen