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Thursday, January 15, 2009

10 Steps to Prepare SEO Friendly Open Source Drupal Site

 

 

Drupal is adequate for SEO, with a few added modules configured correctly, it is extremely powerful.

  1. Enable Clean URLs
  2. Enable Path Module and install and enable Pathauto, Global Redirect and Token Modules.
  3. Configure the Pathauto Module
  4. Install and enable the Meta Tags Module.
  5. Install enable the Page Title Module
  6. Do NOT install the Drupal Sitemap Module.
  7. Fix .htaccess to redirect to "www" or remove the "www" subdomain.
  8. Fix your theme's HTML headers if they aren't right
  9. Recommended: create a custom front page
  10. Modify robots.txt file.