Drupal SEO Articles

A thing I notice quite a lot these days isn't just lazy designers - It's lazy webmasters. I'm seeing far too many websites these days with absolutely no favicon, or a default one. We use the Default drupal favicon simply because we are a drupal themed site, we are all about the drupal CMS, so using this favicon is in good taste.

To change your favicon, simply do this:

A new open-source Google Sitemap Generator has just been released.  This is useful for non-Drupal websites or if you prefer to generate your own sitemap and Submit it to Google rather than using the XML Sitemap Module for Drupal.

LinkVoodoo is an awesome SEO tool for finding out all sorts of neat things about your site and your competitor sites as well.

When you punch in the URL to LinkVoodoo, it will crawl the site for you. It gives you an overall trust ranking in percentage form, based on your overall scores in the areas the tool judges.

Google Webmaster Tools provides a ton of useful data for Webmasters.  In providing an XML Sitemap and submitting it to a Google Webmaster Tools Account a Webmaster can tell Google to crawl the pages included in the sitemap.  This is useful in two ways.  First it sends Google to the site before it would find it's own way there effectively having content indexed in Googles Search Results sooner.  Secondly, it allows Google to review the site from the view of a Search engine, the providing useful information to the Webmaster about the site.

If you've ever been told by someone that they know of a special secret, like the Google Meta Tag, they are simply lying to your face. There are, however, special meta tags designed for the Googlebot.

Googlebot: noarchive

This tag does not let google display your cached content. If you find this appealing, add the following: <meta name="googlebot" content="noarchive">

Googlebot: noindex