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Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites

By : Kristen Pol
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Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites

By: Kristen Pol

Overview of this book

Drupal is one of the most powerful and popular PHP Content Management Systems at the moment. By making your site multilingual, you are opening the door to a whole new user base, in as many countries as you like. Use the localization and internationalization features of Drupal 7 to automatically detect where your site users are visiting from and select the content appropriate to them. The world is your oyster!Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites guides you through the wild world of localization and internationalization with practical and real-world exercises that you can apply to your own website. You will go from theory to practice and acquire the skills you need to make a user-friendly Drupal 7 site that supports multiple languages.You will follow focused chapter exercises to add multiple-language support for your user interface, content, and various parts of your site's configuration such as system variables, menus, and blocks.The latter half of the book fills in the details with step-by-step exercises for localizing the interface, the content, and the configuration. Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites will give you the knowledge and the skills necessary to configure your site to support your language needs.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

SEO


Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is vital for every website that wants free traffic from search engines (which is pretty much all sites!). If you haven't yet, you should check out Drupal Search Engine Optimization, Ben Finklea, Packt Publishing, as it covers the basics. In this section, we'll look at some multilingual and international SEO tips and how to configure the most common SEO modules for a multilingual Drupal 7 site. If you are looking for more modules, check out kristen.org/drupal-seo-modules.

Multilingual and international SEO

Multilingual SEO addresses multilingual sites. International SEO assumes that our site will have users in more than one country. These are parallel concerns as our site can cater to multiple languages and one country or to multiple countries and one language.

The following are a few things to consider when dealing with multilingual and international SEO:

  • The same SEO principles generally apply regardless of language/country

  • Evaluate all SEO requirements...