cb optimized for search engines
Ivan | Mon, 2005-06-27 14:31I added humanely readable urls to each node be it a blog post, forum topic, crit or weblink. This supposed to be very important, because apparently search engines weigh heavily the urls of pages as primary indicators of content.
Also, I added a proper sitemap to Google sitemaps instead of just RSS feeds. It lists all pages (2K+) with priorities to pages that are most read and commented on.
Will see if these measures help Google to rank cb higher.
I'm having a major issue with images. If you check what images Google lists from cb you can see that it's only very few, all with wrong urls. If you have any idea why is this happening please let me know.
What other measures are you taking to optimize your site for search engines?
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This site surely is a great place, and it's awesome to see the constant progress and updates you're making like this.
I don't know where I read it, but I thought for sure Google liked numerical URLs that it could index numerically better than human readable format? I have no idea - so don't quote me on that! lol
But then again, URLs that are named more closely to keywords are going to get indexed well too.
I searched for more info on the topic, and got mixed opinions :/
(p.s. which mod are you using that does this? I'd like to add it to my site as well - thanks Ivan!)
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Googlesitemap for Drupal by Jordan Willms. Pathauto by Mike Ryan. Pathauto is a tricky one. You may have to do a mod that I described here to work. Let us know if you managed to install it.
Maybe it's just coincidence, but one thing I do that gets me good links is provide alternate descriptions with the title attribute of my links. I try not to just repeat the link text, but to expand upon it. Or, sometimes, I use a slangier link text and more rarified title text. Like for a link to the movie site for Pretty Persuasion might simply be [in the context of talking about the movie] "official movie site" and the title text would be "Pretty Persuasion". It's my thought that the more words Google can connect with your content/links, the more likely you are to get results from it.
That's interesting. The only issue with this is that it might get confusing for users to see a link different from page title.