What Does Drupal’s Clean URLs, Path Auto And Taxonomy Have To Do With SEO?

Your Site Structure, Navigation And URL Paths Have A Lot To Do With Climb To The Top Of The Search Engine Rankings

I recently got a quote from a drupal Web design team located north of the border of $7,000 to build an Seo friendly. This fee did not include getting top 10 rankings in Yahoo, MSN or Google. For $7000, you would be delivered a drupal driven web site with the site architecture, navigation, core and path auto and taxonomy module turned on.

Many newbies that are shopping for a content management system are not aware how important it is to have a content management system where the search engine robots can find the content easily. Please do not be offended because I’m not making a judgment that you’re not an intelligent person for not understanding the importance of organizing and classifying your categories using drupal’s taxonomy module. I’ve been self-employed as a successful affiliate marker for the last eight years, and it’s taken me this long to finally grasp that concept. I certainly wouldn’t expect a beginner to know this. Some of you have heard cookie crumbs? These are not the cookie crumbs of that land on your chest from consuming your mothers or aunts’ ginger snap cookies, sugar cookies, chocolate covered shortbread cookies or almond cookies that you will be consuming during the Thanksgiving festivities.

please excuse me for distracting myself. I have just recovered from a laughing fit! I just discovered that on my naturally dragons speaking 8.0 professional voice recognition software, I was able to convert this entire text document to speech. The default setting of the voice that was reading this entire blog post was a woman that sounded like R2-D2’s girlfriend on Star Wars. If you want to listen to this hilarious podcasts, it will be posted on my easy drupal tutorials web site within the next upcoming weeks.

It Takes an Average of Four Days for Drupal Student to Figure out How to Turn on a Clean URLs

This is a statistic that I collected from doing a survey of individuals that took my drupal for non techies training. The first thing I asked them is if they were self-taught how many hours or days and to take them to turn on clean URLs, configure the path auto module to remove the q equals ?q= parameter that is spit out from drupal on all of the Web page path URLs. I will be going in detail of how to turn on your clean URLs

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There Are Many Factors That You Need to Implement When Optimizing Your Drupal Site

They are:

• turning on clean URLs
  
• turning on path auto and URL Aliases
  
• properly planning out on a sheet of paper your parent and child categories and then implementing them on your drupal web site by enabling drupal’s taxonomy module and knowing how to assign them to the different content types: blog entries, article posts, videos, audio recordings, photo shots, individual events, etc.
  
• paying close attention to the structure or architecture of your drupal web site to make it fun and exciting for the Google bot (robot that crawls up web pages) to crawl it to get the best placements in this world class search engine.
  
• paying close attention to your directory structure and the filenames that you assigned to the different: blog entry or Perma links, product pages (content type: story), static pages, (content type: page), podcasts (content type: audio), and video nodes (content type: video), image pages (content type: image),
  

Did you know that after you have carefully choose the keywords in your domain-name, the second-most important opportunity for placing keywords for visitors to come to your web page from the search engines is what to name your directory by applying the secondary keywords in the directory name. I know that was that was a whole mouth full. The online of what I’m trying to say is that you really want to be very careful in planning out how you name the vocabulary (drupal’s taxonomy) or directory so Google can find your directory easily can assign you a page rank for all the different pages spread across your web site.

A detailed tutorial will be provided for people who are interested in exploring this concept further where I will be talking about limiting the depth of your site, limiting the span of your site, and how to create a four levels site structure. It does it matter that you don’t know what all this jargon means right now. What’s important to know is that if you apply my methods Bonnie building a drupal driven web site with trying on the clean URLs, Path auto and taxonomy module and probably structure how people will find your content, you make it easier for yourself in the search engines to give you lots of page rank juice and high placements.

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