The Semantic Web has been coming for years. However, as with all technologies it has needed something to push it over the edge into becoming a requirement rather than a nice to have. Advertising is frequently a catalyst for change and this time Semantic Advertising is the catalyst that we have been waiting for.

This blog is not highly technical or long, but I think that it gives a real world example of why 2010 will be the year of the semantic web and the year that semantic technologies really take off.

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.

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.

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,

"Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory"

• He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
• He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.
• He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks.
• He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.
• He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.

Quoted from Sun Tzu (pre web ;-)