SEO Expert Blog

In this short video Search Engine Marketer Brian Chappell recommends some basic SEO measures for a Drupal site. Since Drupal is very search engine friendly out of the box, there are not many things you need to do.

Brian recommends to activate the core path module and to additionally install the Page Title, Global Redirect, and Meta Tags modules. In his accompanying blog post are also some notes on the .htaccess and robots.txt files.

I haven't used the Page Title module yet, but agree that Path, Global Redirect, and Meta Tags (nodewords) should be installed and activated, and also the XML Sitemap module.

Last year I wrote about SEO modules for Drupal and other CMS with some more modules that are worth taking a look at. There is also the SEO Checklist module by Ben Finklea to help you make your Drupal site even more search engine friendly.

One hint from me. Make your site friendly for yourself and your users first. Then take care of the bots, if you feel like doing so.

Update

I lost some comments on this post, that were mistakenly classified as spam by the spam protection I am using. Greg Knaddison, a.k.a. greggles, pointed to his free Drupal SEO video-course, where he covers the most important Drupal core settings and contributed modules for optimizing your site. Check it out!