seo

As with most things, there is more than one way to link to a page on the internet. The same goes for linking to content within a Drupal system. You can use absolute URLs, absolute paths, relative paths, node ids, or even special syntax provided by one or another Drupal module. So what should you use, and when?

Consider these three URLs:

It's been exactly one month since I first started CodeGobbler.com and I thought I'd share some statistics from my first month of semi-professional blogging.

The first month of CodeGobbler's online presence has been an interesting one, and I have heard nothing but positive feedback from around the blogosphere. It's been a month about trying things out and exploring new ground.

Out of the box, Drupal SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is pretty good. But there's definitely extra work that you can do to make it even better. In this short article I want to focus on a selection of Drupal SEO modules which provide fundamental enhancements that I think should be included in the Drupal core itself some day.

It doesn't matter if it's a personal blog, a corporate website or a graphic designer's portfolio, these Drupal SEO modules should be used for all, and will help ensure that your site is as search engine friendly as it can be.

I had a great idea for a new webmaster resource last night - a live keyword analysis tool, one that checks keyword weights as you type. Only thing is, it's not a new at all. It's already been done and can be found at live-keyword-analysis.com/

The tool lets you define up to three keywords or phrases that you want to target and provides a text box for you to type into (or copy/paste). As you type, it tells you the keyword weight ratio for each of your targeted keywords or phrases.

The Drupal statistics module doesn't offer a lot in the way on configuration; It's basically either on or off. When it is on, it's not particularly clever about the way that it keeps track of page reads, simply incrementing a counter every time a node is accessed, and there is no control over what counts as a hit and what doesn't.

If your or your site administrators do a lot of work on the site from day to day, writing articles, tweaking things here and there, then every single time they view a post views will be logged, resulting in a skewed post read counter.