SEO Expert Blog

Inspired by Dries Buytaert's regular announcements of new Drupal sites, I did some (re)search on which news sites, universities, organizations, companies, musicians, celebrities, communities, software projects, etc. are using Drupal for their websites. The result is the following list of sites, that impressed me somehow. Of course the list is far from complete, so feel free to post Drupal sites you like in the comments.

Bands, Musicians and Celebrities

• Avril Lavigne
• Jennifer Lopez | The Official Jennifer Lopez Site
• Britney Spears | Blackout Magazine - Britney.Com - Jive Records
• Tori Amos Home | The Official Tori Amos Site
• Grateful Dead | Official Site of the Grateful Dead
• Ozzy Osbourne Home | The Official Ozzy Osbourne Site
• Moby
• Crosby, Stills and Nash

The GNU Image Manipulation Program, a.k.a. GIMP, is a fantastic open source raster graphics editor freely available for many platforms. GIMP can be used for professional graphics, logo and Web design, photo editing, batch processing of image files, photo effects, and much more. The following list contains many cool GIMP resources.

Firefox is a great Web browser. It offers good Web standards support and is open source. As a Web developer who regularly creates templates/themes based on Photoshop designs, Web standards compliance is a very important aspect and one of the reasons I hate Internet Explorer. As a person who believes in the spirit of open source, it is also important that Firefox is open source software.

The speed of Web page rendering is not the biggest strength of Firefox, there are other browsers that render pages more quickly, but the most important aspect, that makes Firefox incomparably useful are the free extensions available.

This is a categorized listing of 105 free SEO tools you can use for optimizing websites. For each category I give a short introduction about what the tools do. Most of them have an English interface and are web based.

Some tools need to be installed on a web server or a client connected to the Internet which is indicated in the introductory text or next to the link. Have fun trying out these free SEO tools!

Did I already mention that Drupal is a really cool CMS or should I call it Web application framework? One of the features that sets Drupal apart from many other open source projects is its taxonomy system. With Drupal you can easily categorize content using vocabularies and terms.

For SEO Expert Blog I have set up one free tagging vocabulary called keywords. Each time I write a new post I can enter tags that will be added to the vocabulary if they do not yet exist. These tags are displayed as links in each post. They link to a teaser list of posts tagged with this term. A great way to set up relations between your posts.