Drupal SEO modules

There is nothing more embarrassing in the world of SEO than duplicate content. If you are caught with duplicate content, it’s a one-way ticket to Internet detention in the eyes of Google. Sure, the first few times you walk away with a sore wrist and your content taken down. But if you continue to consciously duplicate your content, your website could be wiped away from Web existence. Now that’s heavy. Read more »

As you may know, I am the maintainer of the popular Drupal SEO Checklist module. Many people for the last year or so have been asking when I'll update it for Drupal 7 SEO. My answer was - and still is - "when the modules that make SEO possible on Drupal 7 are relatively available and ready".

So, over the last couple of months, I've been keeping a spreadsheet of the candidate modules that might be listed in the 7 version of the SEO Checklist. You can view that spreadsheet here:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Aiu_cgxbfKPSdHB2SmtoM0N3R1AtLXl... Read more »

If you are running your site with Drupal, you are reaping the numerous benefits this publishing platform has to offer. In fact, because Drupal is built in open source and eats its Wheaties every morning, it is the best open source content management system (CMS) in the business for search engine optimization.

Yet even the outliers of society need practice and fine-tuning their art to become the best: The Beatles had Hamburg, Michael Jordan had Larry Bird, and Superman had his kryptonite. My point is that Drupal doesn’t fall out of the box ready to shoot your site up to numero uno in Google’s SERPs.


The good news is it doesn’t take several years, an entire career, or the destruction of a fictional (TBD) planet for your Drupal site to appear where you want it to be ranked. You will just need to do some configuring and enabling of certain Drupal SEO modules to get your site running like the finely optimized website it deserves to be.

Although you don’t have to install these modules on your Drupal site, they are practically required in order for your Drupal site to be ranked well in Google, Bing, and Yahoo.

Do you want your website to perform well in search engine rankings? Join me after the jump for 6 Drupal SEO modules required for superior search ranking performance. Read more »