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Drupal and SEO - The Global Redirect Module

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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.
  • 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.

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