In the first of the Drupal Seo series I went through basic Drupal SEO with no additional modules installed. Now we are going to move onto SEO Statistics and Analysis and how to set yourself up to win, things get a bit more in-depth (not a lot) as you will need to now install a couple of modules and connect up some external services.
A couple of weeks ago we announced a Drupal module, then this week I spotted another Piwik module being developed by Hass. I immediately sent the following contact message
This post is the first in our Drupal SEO series and attempts to give you a reasonably indepth overview of what the different aspects of a standard drupal installation you will need to address for SEO are.
Drupal SEO on a bare bones installation (i.e. no additional modules installed) still needs a fair degree of knowledge if your new to drupal or SEO and can be quite daunting for someone new to SEO and/or Drupal.
The post is broken down into three sections:
1) Modules and their relevance to Drupal SEO
2) Anatomy of a Blog post from an SEO viewpoint
3) A review of all the admin settings and how they impact SEO
(Obviously I would never recommend doing a bare bones install as there are some wonderful modules that do loads of the work for you, but I think its important to understand the base your working from.)
Drupal SEO - Bare Bones installation is the first in a series of Drupal SEO related posts and this posts looks at SEO for drupal with no additional modules installed. We initially looked at dealing with some of the advanced issues relating to SEO however decided that it would be more useful if we started at the beginning and build up to these topics. This series is aimed at giving an indepth look into all the primary areas that affect most people when building websites that they need to rank in Google et al.
IO1 have put up a public Drupal AMI for Amazon EC2 aimed primarily at Drupal Developers.
Basically its quite simple, normally when people create an AMI, they use a specific Drupal version in the AMI which while useful is somewhat limiting as you have to wait for someone to create the next AMI for the build of Drupal you want.
We are delighted to announce that we have just released a Drupal module for integrating with Piwik, an open source alternative to Google Analytics.
Piwik itself is in beta so this release is a beta version for Drupal 6.
Download the Drupal Piwik module and let us know what you think. We will be submitting to drupal.org in the next few days and plan on maintaining it there.
Earlier we announced the release of the Drupal Piwik module, you can see the announcement at "Drupal Piwik module announcement".
This is just a brief introduction to the module, please note the Piwik is beta and this module could therefore be considered alpha
Basically the module provides two functions,
We are often asked why we choose Drupal over Joomla/Mambo or the others around. Well when we started out looking at this we had actually built a system in XML/XSL that did a pretty nice job for what we need on the CMS end of things and were using ofbiz for the back-end transactional/ERP style stuff however we still did not have the full framework that we wanted.
It often happens that I've added and configured a load of feeds, only to discover afterwards that I should have done something differently from the start, so I need to purge and refresh all the feeds I've already created. Rather than sitting in front of admin/content/feed and clicking for hours on all the remove and refresh links, I wrote a simple script to do this for me.
