Recommended Drupal SEO module list

Right, you have a basic Drupal installation and now you are raring to go, you want to know how to tune your site to get the best Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) for your Drupal site.

Well here is my initial list that will direct you to all the standard modules mentioned in my whitepaper.

The modules are in no particular order you can just download them all in on fell swoop.

• Pagetitle used to automatically creat a page name that will be displayed in the top of your browser bar and appear in your Google lisiting summary.
• Pathauto to generate useful names for the path to the page.
• Global Redirect Module automatic 301 redirect to your URL aliases.
• Meta Tags Module page description data module.
• XML Sitemap creation for your site.
• Google Analytics tracking system integration to your site.

Once you have each module downloaded to your machine you need to un-archive each of them to their respective folders. Remember to use the default name so they don't get confused later on if the module gets updated.

Then move the files to the appropriate directory in your Drupal installation. Normally from the root Drupal directory its in the sites/all/modules/ directory, which you may have to create.

Now simply enable these modules at the admin/build/modules/list administration page, remembering to hit the save button at the end of the page.

For each of your modules go to the configuration page and enter your site specific details, hit the save button and you are set.

So there you have it, the foundation list of modules required to get the best SEO out of your Drupal membership site, or indeed any Drupal site, and get you going into the business of marketing your website.

With such a firm foundation you are now ready to go further; tune and optimise these modules, hone their parameters so that you beat the competition.

To beat the competition get hold of a copy of my Drupal training course and do just that by optimising Drupal to the full, there will be no stopping you with all that knowledge under your belt.