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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How to move your existing HTML site to a drupal friendly hosting company

Smarter and faster Web design

you know intuitively because you’ve been learning about search engine optimization for the last year or two that having a static front page or Dreamweaver web site is not enough anymore to climb to the top 10 results in the search engines such as: Google, Yahoo, MSN, an up-and-coming competitor of Google called Cuil.Com. In fact, in the search engines strategy workshop held last fall, all the search engine experts talked about were: Word Press, Drupal, Joolma. You know that if the search engine experts who gets paid thousands and thousands of dollars by their clients to help them rank in the top 10 results in Google is saying to their clients who think everyone who attended the conference that you need to build a Web 2.0 friendly web site, you know this is the the whole truth and nothing but the truth. My blog, Drupal Girl Gem is entirely focused on educating you that drupal is a very powerful search engine friendly content management system that you should seriously consider working with.

The bottom line of what I’m pretty well saying in this blog entry on moving your static site to a drupal hosting company is I will be quite frank and bold in saying that if you are building a brand new site or if you have an existing site and they are not run on: Word press, drupal, joolma, movable type, you may want to think hard on what platform you’re going to choose. I’m sure you’ve heard of the definition for insanity. If you do the same thing over and over again and are not getting any different on your results then fantasizing that what you’re doing over and over again will give you a different result is called insanity. What I’m really saying is that if you were running a front page or Dreamweaver web site and you have no blog capability or letting visitors subscribe to our RSS feed, you are not bookmarking you don’t let visitors bookmark your blog entries or photos or videos or audio recordings that you have on your web site then thinking that you will get in the top 10 in the search engines is a bleak reality. As I said on my free drupal webinar I challenge my viewers to go to the search engines and type in a keyword that there thinking of building a niche market around and looking at the web sites that are ranked very highly. I guarantee you that quite a few top ranking web sites is either a Word press, drupal, joolma or movable type.

You know how in the new year people always make these kind of new years resolutions such as losing weight, quitting smoking, get out of debt, find a new soulmate if you have recently divorced, go husky dog racing in Alaska. If you are not currently generating an extra $500-$5000 a month and have spent five to 20 hours a week the last 52 weeks in 2008 ranking your affiliate marketing web site and have earned ZERO income from your affiliate marketing business, I strongly think that your new years resolution for 2009 can be migrating your static front page or Dreamweaver web site from your existing hosting company to running a drupal driven web site. Below will be a very easy to follow step-by-step plan on how to do this. I am sorry if I am coming across in a very direct and perhaps not diplomatic in the way I’m communicating to you.

However, I have a friend who has spent over $5,800 on purchasing e-books, videos, screen casts on how to do search engine optimization. This person has earned ZERO dollars from his efforts. He came to me in desperation asked me what he needs to do because his wife is close to kicking him out of the House and he will be facing homelessness. I simply asked him to take my intense three-day drupal for nontechies training. This was three months ago, and I’m proud to say he’s earning $200-$500 a month with his drupal driven affiliate marketing multimedia rich web site. By the way he had a static Dreamweaver 100 page web site which took him hours and hours and hours to update. If he needed to change any particular affiliate marketing banner, he had to spend three to five hours doing it because he had to go to every single page individually to delete that particular banner code. Can you imagine if you have a web site where you have 10 to 20 different merchants on IT, what if the merchants moved to a different network from commission Junction to share sale? How many hours of wasted energy would you spend not building new content on your web site rather spending three to five hours just remove an update one banner code? This is especially hard for people like my friend because he was not in the financial position to outsourced E. elance for this incredibly labor-intensive task.

how to migrate to a new drupal hosting provider

If you have an existing HTML based web site, it is very easy to move to a drupal friendly hosting provider. You can easily do this yourself or hire someone at rent a coder or Elance. Here are the steps below:

• sign-up for a well trusted and reputable drupal friendly hosting provider and create a brand new hosting account. Print out the welcome letter with your username and password to get in their control panel. In fact I would highly recommend using a drupal from the hosting company with 24 x 7 toll free technical support where you can call in and have someone hold your hand through the entire process.
  
• next, download your entire web site and all its server files onto your desktop Macintosh or Windows operating system.
  
• login to your new drupal friendly control panel or use any FTP manager such as cute FTP or their existing file manager and upload all of your web site files from your desktop in the exact directory structure to the brand new hosting company. Again if you subscribe to my Easy Drupal Tutorials For Non Techies membership, I will share with you the top three Drupal friendly hosting providers where of their incredibly friendly technical support will walk you through this entire process for free.
  
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  now you’re going to have to go to you or hosting registrar. This could be go Daddy, register.com and point the name servers that you will be given in the welcome letter by the drupal hosting provider to the new hosting company. They say it will take you 24 to 72 hours for your existing site to migrate over to a new hosting provider.
  
• you also have the option of keeping your existing domain name registrar and simply asked them to update the domain name server [DNS] records to point to the new DNS of the new drupal hosting provider. Or you can transfer the domain from your old domain name registrar over to your new hosting company
  
• do this right away after you’ve uploaded your server files onto the new drupal hosting company
  

replace a negative mental attitude or a lethargic mental attitude with a positive attitude. By following the next easy steps

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Stay with it,

Bounce back and start over again after having failed and not succeed in ranking your affiliate marketing web site .

Forgive yourself and send love and compassion to yourself and say to yourself every day I can do it. How to make it happen?

Will Cuil, Be the Next Google

my drupal driven web site is ranked in the top 10 for the same keywords as I’m ranked in Google

The holy Grail of all affiliate marketers if they are not experts in getting targeted traffic from paper click advertising is to get in the top 10 in Google. In my previous blog entry that I wrote about migrating an HTML site to a drupal web site, it will become a necessity to have a photo sharing application very much like flicker, on your web site if you want to have rankings and a new search engine called Cuil.com.

Go to:

Cuil.com

How To Plan Now and Get Top 10 Rankings in Cuil.com

Cuil.com stands out from other search engines by ranking web sites on relevancy as opposed to popularity.Cuil.com offers the results in the form of images and photos. Right now Cuil.com is still in beta so if you typed in drupal themes, you’ll notice that right beside the meta description is a screenshot or an image of the top ranking pages for the keyword drupal themes. On November 21, 2008 Saturday, the number one result was a web site called themesnap.com, to click to the web site theme snap.com, you can click on the screenshot orange curve image or click on the title tag: theme snap | making drupal theme designs a snap hyperlink.

If you have a static page or Dreamweaver site it will cost tremendous amount of money to hire a programmer to put a photo sharing application where your web site will be visually rich with many photos that you’ve uploaded in your visitors have uploaded on your online gallery. If you do not have a photo gallery or images anywhere that the Cuil robot can crawl, it will be very hard for you to achieve high rankings in this incredible innovative up-and-coming image search engine.

The images that Cuil.com selects to show up on the results page can be pulled from the webmaster’s web site or it could perhaps be an illustration the meaning that explains the text on that particular page? At the moment this is not 100% clear.

The question that many web designers and search engine optimization experts ask is will Cuil.com’s user interface and algorithms standup against Google? If you were to do a search for your keyword, you’ll see fat it will display three rows of results and you have the ability as a user to modify it to two columns or three columns. A New and innovative approach to indexing the Web by spitting out images that represent the actual high-ranking web site is refreshing. Last heard, Cuil.com says that they have 50 million searches a day.

To learn more about this innovative up-and-coming search engine, go to

Cuil Biggest Image Search engine