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Drupal Search Engine Optimization

By : Ric Shreves
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Drupal Search Engine Optimization

By: Ric Shreves

Overview of this book

Drupal is a free and open-source content management system and content management framework written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. It is used as a back-end system for at least 1.5% of all websites worldwide ranging from personal blogs to corporate, political, and government sites. SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is the process and techniques by which you optmize the content and style of your site in order to induce more people to view it. Drupal SEO will help you develop and execute an effective search engine optimization strategy for your site. From planning to implementation, the book covers best practices in contemporary SEO. In Drupal SEO you will learn how to develop a dynamic and productive SEO campaign. Covering both the basics of campaign development as well as the daily work it takes to maintain your SEO competitiveness, this book will show you how to produce a distinct and appropriate strategy for your site. In particular you will learn key phrase selection and competitor analysis and the correct groundwork for your dynamic SEO campaign. Drupal SEO will then show you, by finding the right combination of extensions, how to supercharge your site. You will also be given a guided tour of key SEO services, like Google and Bing Webmaster, in order to implement a progressive and effective link building campaign. You will then learn key expert tips and tricks to enable you to build SEO-effective content which will take your site from invisible to unmissable with little effort.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Configuring Site Details


Let's start by looking at one of the simplest elements in your site setup, configuring Drupal's Site Details. The Site Details section of the Configuration manager includes three items that are of interest for SEO:

  • Site name

  • Slogan

  • Error pages

We will now discuss each of these in brief.

Setting the site name

You get your first chance to give your site a name during the Drupal installation process. Once the installation is complete, however, you can modify the site name at any time via the Configuration manager. The site name is the key to you for several reasons:

  • It automatically appears on the site header in many themes, as highlighted in the following screenshot

  • It appears as the page title shown in the top browser bar and browser tab, as highlighted in the following screenshot

  • If a browser supports tabs, the name will also appear on the browser tab for the page

  • The name appears in e-mails generated by the system

From an SEO perspective, the site name is the key due to...