Drupal

Here is a presentation that I gave at Drupalcamp Austin in November 2010.

Changing your website URLs can cause problems: people who bookmarked the page can’t find it again, search engines are baffled when your content is now missing, and people or websites that link to your pages now have broken links. Not good problems to have with your website content.

You would think that the best advice, then, would be to never change your URLs. The reality is, however, that there are many legitimate reasons that a URL needs to be changed:

• Companies acquire websites and need to move content.

Over the past several Fridays, I have been publishing Drupal SEO 'how-to' posts instead of the Drupal SEO news some of you love and crave. Well, there have been a few major developments within the community that I cannot go without sharing; So much so that I came here today to inform rather than drop a few nuggets of Drupal 'how-to' knowledge on you.

So join me after the jump and catch up on a few news-worthy conversations buzzing around the Drupal community. You can even get involved. Gotta love Drupal!

In a blog post last month, I showed you how to configure the Meta tags module for Drupal SEO - where we walked through how to download and configure the Meta tags module properly. Now we are ready to specify meta tags for all the content that you currently have or will be creating.

There are three ways to specify content with meta tags: taxonomy, node, and views. Let’s walk through all three types and how to configure each one.

Just like websites of yore, Drupal uses a query string to pull information from a database. Every single blog post, comment, content, user entry, and so on is stored in tables on the server so you need a query string to go find the data and bring it back to the browser window. This is a fancy way of saying “URL”.