Drupal Search Engine Optimization

Ric Shreves

• Editore: Packt Publishing
• Anno: 2012
• ISBN:
  9781849518789
• Edizione: 1
• Argomento: Informatik
• Categoria: Webentwicklung

In Detail

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.

Approach

The book will take a hands-on approach to the process involved in configuring a site for SEO. As SEO is an on-going process - it doesn't stop once the site is built - the book will provide reusable tips and techniques in order to understand what they have to do after the site is live.

Who this book is for

This book targets site builders, webmasters and site owners. Advanced technical skills are not required, though the user should be familiar with administering a Drupal website.

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Table of Contents

Drupal Search Engine Optimization

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. An Introduction to Search Engine Optimization

What is SEO?

SEO terminology

.htaccess

301 redirect (also known as Permanent Redirect)

302 redirect (also known as Temporary Redirect or Found)

404 error (also known as Page Not Found)

AdSense

AdWords

Alexa Rank

Alt attribute

Anchor

Back link (also known as an "inbound link")

Bing Webmaster

Black hat

Bot (also known as Robot, Spider, or Crawler)

Canonical URLs

Cloaking

Crawl depth

Deep link

Doorway page (also known as a "gateway page")

Duplicate content penalty

Google Webmaster

Internal link density

KEI

Keyphrase density (also known as "keyword density")

Keyword (or Keyphrase)

Keyphrase stuffing

Landing page

Link building

Link farm

Link text (also known as "anchor text")

Long tail

Meta tags

MozRank

nofollow

Organic rank

Outbound link

PageRank

PPC

Reciprocal link

Redirect

Robots.txt

SEF URLs

SEM

SEOMoz

SERP

SMO

Splash page

Stop word

Title attribute

White hat

XML sitemap

How search engines assess sites?

Summary

2. Configuring Drupal's SEO Options

Configuring Site Details

Setting the site name

Setting the slogan

Creating custom error pages

Setting up search engine friendly URLs

Enabling Clean URLs

Enabling the Path module

Writing Custom URL aliases

Setting up taxonomy and tagging

Configuring your site's RSS feeds

Summary

3. Useful Extensions to Enhance SEO

Finding SEO modules

Top SEO modules for Drupal

Drupal SEO Tools

Facebook social plugins integration

Global Redirect

Meta tags

Page Title

Pathauto

Search 404

SEO Checklist

SEO UI

SEO Watcher

SexyBookmarks

TagClouds

XML sitemap

Installing and configuring common SEO modules

Enhancing SEF URLs

Implementing metadata management

Improving Title Tag management

Setting up Canonical URLs

Setting up your XML sitemap

Providing social bookmarking

Summary

4. Getting Ready for Launch

Determining your SEO strategy

Identifying keywords and phrases

Assessing keyword effectiveness

Tapping into the power of stemming and variants

Content strategies for enhancing search engine ranking

Managing metadata

Setting up third-party services that can assist with SEO

Getting started with Google Analytics

Working with Google Webmaster Tools

Working with Bing Webmaster Tools

Summary

5. Managing SEO on a Live Site

Link building

Identifying quality link partners

Managing a link marketing campaign

Creating your own links

Directories

Press releases

Video and file sharing

Social media optimization

Reporting and tracking

Popularity metrics

Traffic source metrics

e-Business metrics

Link metrics

Summary

Index

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First published: September 2012

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Credits

Author

Ric Shreves

Reviewers

Surendra Mohan

Veturi JV Subramanyeswari

Acquisition Editor

Andrew Duckworth

Lead Technical Editor

Andrew Duckworth

Technical Editor

Veronica Fernandes

Copy Editor

Laxmi Subramanian

Project Coordinator

Vishal Bodwani

Proofreader

Mario Cecere

Indexer

Tejal R. Soni

Graphics

Aditi Gajjar

Production Coordinators

Prachali Bhiwandkar

Shantanu Zagade

Cover Work

Prachali Bhiwandkar

About the Author

Ric Shreves is a Web Applications Consultant and Tech Author. He's been building websites and writing about technology since the mid-90s. He specializes in open source Content Management Systems and has written texts on each of the big three – WordPress, Joomla!, and Drupal.

He is the Founding Partner of Water & Stone, a digital agency that focuses on new media and online marketing. He works with clients on Digital Marketing Strategy and supervises the SEO implementation team. He lives in Bali and divides his time between the island and Singapore.

About the Reviewers

Surendra Mohan is serving as Service Delivery Manager at a well-known software consulting European MNC in India.

After completing BE in 2004 from VTU, Belgaum, in the branch of ISE, he started h...