Drupal SEO Tutorial Update

J. Cohen - Thu, 2008-05-08

This Drupal SEO tutorial [http://tips.webdesign10.com/basic-drupal-seo-on-site-optimization] was written about 1 1/2 years ago and was getting badly outdated, so I updated it.

I'll organize it better when I have time, but at least wanted to have it be current.

In a nutshell:

1. Enable Clean URLs
2. Enable Path Module
3. Install and enable Pathauto Module
4. Configure Pathauto Module so that it doesn't change your URLs on your when you change the title of a node
5. Install the Global Redirect Module which will remove trailing slashes on URLs and redirect URLs to their URL aliases.
6. Install the Meta Tags Module.
7. Install the Page Title Module
8. Do NOT install the Drupal Sitemap Module.
9. Fix .htaccess to redirect to "www" or remove the "www" subdomain.
10. Fix your theme's HTML headers -- many themes don't do this correctly.
11. Make sure you don't have PHP session IDs in the URLs (I haven't seen this problem on Drupal sites in a long time).
12. Fix your robots.txt file. The default robots.txt file still has serious problems in Drupal 6.
13. Watch out for contributed modules that create extra bad URLs and block them with robots.txt

Hope that is useful as a starting point...

Let me know if I missed anything or if you disagree...

Copyright 2008