Search-engine Optimization for the whole URL path

By Wai_Wai on 1 Oct 2005 at 15:09 UTC

Hi.
1)
How can I format/structure all the URL of my pages in order to optimize the search engine ranking?
I'm not too sure how to organize my pages and give them proper URL.
Any clues?

2) What modules can help with search engine optimization?
[PS: Currently I have PathAuto module for this purpose]

Thanks.

Comments

SEO

vwX commented 1 October 2005 at 16:41

Drupal does very well "out of the box" for SEO. Using the pathauto module just makes it easier.

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Really well?!?

Wai_Wai commented 2 October 2005 at 08:52

Really well "out of the box"?!?
Why do you think so?

It uses node number to name each page by default which is bad in terms of search engine optimization(SEO).
We need to download some other modules to help with SEO.

Anyway, in pathauto, I have a choice to format my URL. So how should I format my URL?
Any advice?

Google finds and ranks my

sepeck commented 2 October 2005 at 20:35

Google finds and ranks my sites just fine without path auto. path auto can add additional impact if that is important to you.

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Pathauto did nothing for my

iraszl commented 2 October 2005 at 20:56

Pathauto did nothing for my site with google. Looks like google doesn't care too much for the url keywords. However it did wonders for both msn and yahoo. The queries from these two increased significantly after I renamed all my pages to keyworded urls.

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ExactSeek will not spider pathauto urls

joeblough commented 22 October 2005 at 21:31

I've just noticed that ExactSeek will not spider a site with pathauto urls. In fact it won't spider anything without conventional filename extensions on its url target pages.

I'm considering building a static mirror site with wget, but so far it seems to me that wget has problems with the urls as well.

I've been testing with the PC version of wget, as I don't have telnet access to my host. But I haven't be able to get it to spider past the home page, regardless of what I do with --mirror or -r and -l.

Anybody else run into this?

It does seem that MSN is starting to find my pages.

But it doesn't seem as though Yahoo has found all of them yet. Puzzling.