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Thu, 02/11/2010 - 22:03
The global redirect module is a must have for SEO on a Drupal site. It does a great job helping with drupals "duplicate content" issues and redirecting urls around your drupal install.
For example by default, drupal shows the same content for a both a url ending in a slash "/" or not ending with a slash:
- mysite.com/node/36/
- mysite.com/node/36
To drupal this is the same page, but to a search engine, these might be very different pages.
Here are the settings I've found to work well with the search engines.
- Deslash: ON
- Non-clean to Clean: ON
- Remove Trailing Zero Argument: Enabled for taxonomy term pages only
- I've only really had issues w/ trailing zero's showing up in search engines with taxonomy term/vocab pages. That is why I only turn this on.
- I've only really had issues w/ trailing zero's showing up in search engines with taxonomy term/vocab pages. That is why I only turn this on.
- Menu Access Checking: Dissabled
- Case Sensitive URL Checking: Enabled
Global redirect module along with a good robots.txt file will help you get rid of alot of the duplicate content on your site that may hurt your SERP rankings.
About Drupal Sun
Drupal Sun is an Evolving Web project. It allows you to:
- Do full-text search on all the articles in Drupal Planet (thanks to Apache Solr)
- Facet based on tags, author, or feed
- Flip through articles quickly (with j/k or arrow keys) to find what you're interested in
- View the entire article text inline, or in the context of the site where it was created
See the blog post at Evolving Web