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Setting up the right modules to help you better navigate the Drupal interface is going to make your experience with Drupal a lot more enjoyable and efficient.
Tracy Cooper Thu, 02/04/2021 - 16:35
Drupal SEO: Duplicate Content & the Global Redirect Module Ben Finklea Fri, 01/13/2012 - 10:12
Duplicate content can happen to anyone, at anytime, and most who are guilty don’t even know they are doing it. In fact, I would say it is one of the most common mistakes, in terms of SEO, that people do who are running Drupal sites. For your Drupal site to rank well in the search engines, it is critical that you eliminate your duplicate content. What does the Global Redirect module do? It takes care of some housekeeping issues that come up when clean URLs are enabled in Drupal, eliminating the duplicate content issues that you may not have known you had.

Taxonomy Meta Tags For Drupal Sites

Once you have your Meta tags module installed and configured on your Drupal site, you will want to specify meta tags for all your current and future content.

Taxonomy is a very broad kind of content on your Drupal site, so it is a good idea to use broad, category-like keywords for your meta tags. Simply put, it is how you classify content in Drupal. Many Drupal sites’ first taxonomy is category.

You can also have subcategories of Taxonomy called terms, and terms will have subterms, and so on. It is very easy in Drupal to see all your content in a certain category just by visiting the taxonomy list for a specific term.

The URL for a taxonomy list will be something like this: http://www.yourDrupalsite.com/category/term/subterm.

Here is a quick tutorial on how to edit or add taxonomy meta tag categories, terms and subterms in Drupal:

Drupal SEO Tutorial: How to Set Up 301 Redirects

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.

How to Specify Meta Tags For Your Content

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.