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An SEO Problem with Drupal's Site Map Module & How to Fix It

November 16, 2010 - 5:05am

Having recently rebuilt the Zengenuity website, it just was this week that I finally got around to setting it up on our SEOmoz account. After the initial site crawl, I was surprised to discover this:

Duplicate Page Title Erros

Duplicate content in Drupal is often a problem. The URL alias system causes content to show up at multiple URLs by default. I’ve posted about this problem (and it’s solutions) before. But, I thought we doing everything right, so I was surprised to see so many duplicate content errors.

Fixing Duplicate Content SEO Problems in Drupal

November 15, 2010 - 5:50am

Having duplicate content is a major problem for search engine optimization (SEO). To put it simply, by having multiple copies of the same content online, you’re competing against yourself for search result rankings. And Google has also been explicit that duplicate content on your site may result in lower search ranking. Avoiding this penalty is important for maximizing your site's search rankings, however, Drupal's default configuration can often lead you to unknowingly create duplicate content. Read on to find out how to fix this issue.

The Week in Drupal: November 12, 2010

November 11, 2010 - 6:10pm

A look at interesting new modules, articles and other Drupal news of this week.

289/365 - Fall Rain

Drupal News

DrupalCon is Coming to London in August 2011

Something is Broken on Examiner.com - Writers in Uproar - Examiner.com decided to upgrade their site last week to Drupal 7. Now it's broken all over the place and writers are angry. (They get paid per impression.) I can't imagine why a large site like that would upgrade before Drupal 7 has even one stable release. 

The Week in Drupal: November 5, 2010

November 5, 2010 - 6:04am

A look at interesting new modules, articles and other Drupal news of this week.

Frost's Beautiful Defeat

Drupal News

DrupalCon Chicago Registration and Call for Speakers is Open!

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Deploying content on an already existing site - including the deployment module after the fact.

Advanced Voting with the Decisions Drupal Module - Building approval and ranked-choice style voting systems on Drupal.

The Week in Drupal: October 29, 2010

October 29, 2010 - 2:00am

A look at interesting new modules, articles and other Drupal news of this week.

Halloween!!

Drupal News

Drupal 7 Beta 2 Released

Great Posts This Week

A Tour of the New Drupal.org - Points out some of the new features, such as search improvements and help for new Drupal users. 

Interesting New Modules

Ubercart Views Upsell - It's "Customers who bought this product also bought" for your Ubercart store!

The Week in Drupal: October 22, 2010

October 22, 2010 - 4:38am

A look at interesting new modules, articles and other Drupal news of this week.

Pretty!!!

Great Posts This Week

Is your website smarter than a 12-year old? - How to use the Readability module to keep your posts understandable.

3.4 Million page views per day, 92 million per month, one server and Drupal - A presentation given at DrupalCamp Toronto on how to optimize the hell out of Drupal. 

The Week in Drupal: October 8, 2010

October 8, 2010 - 10:31am

A look at interesting new modules, articles and other Drupal news of this week. Drupal

Drupal News

Drupal 7 Beta 1 Released - Yes, at long last.

Great Posts This Week

Spaces_Node Demo Video - I haven't been all that interested in Spaces, but after seeing this, I'm going to have to give it a try. Impressive.

Open Data and Beautiful Maps - A nice video tutorial on using Views for making maps.

The Week in Drupal: October 3, 2010

October 3, 2010 - 11:06am

A look at interesting modules, article and other Drupal news of this week. Drupal

Interesting New Modules

Panels Dashboard - Allow individual users to hide panes within panels. Saves state per user.

Page View Block - This makes a proper module out of a hack we often have to do on client sites: hiding the page view for a content type that you only want to show up in Views. (e.g. slideshow banners)

The Week in Drupal: September 26, 2010

September 26, 2010 - 10:36am

A look at interesting modules, article and other Drupal news of this week. Drupal

Interesting New Modules

Saved Searches - Allows users to save frequently used searches and access them in a block.

Image Fetchr - Pull screenshots from a URL like Facebook link posting. 

Inherited Formatter - This is cool! Have your empty CCK field pull in a default value from another node related by a Nodereference. Great if you have several instances of the same thing. (Example given in the description is Sections of the same Course.)

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