Top Drupal SEO Modules

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a technique to fine tune your webpages in harmony with popular search engines so as to increase website ranking during search results. Although there are no such parameters clearly defined by search engines fundamentals such as having original content, quality back-links, focus on search words/phrases, etc. are a necessity.  Drupal, is undoubtedly one of the most-used free and open-source CMS used today, with top websites growingly embracing the technology Drupal is set to get even bigger going forward.

Apart from the many feathers in the Drupal cap, one of the most prominent ones has been the fact that Drupal is designed to be very search engine friendly. Search engine friendliness is the most striking attribute of Drupal. Websites tailored on the Drupal platform have witnessed quick indexing by popular search engines like Google and Bing.

Following features would help understand why Drupal comes across as a handy technology in website traffic generation:

1. Path module: With the help of the path module in Drupal one can easily create URL aliases which are easily understood by humans and search engines alike. Automatic URLs in Drupal follow a pattern like http://www.ebizontek.com/node/001 with the implementation of the path module the same gets converted to an easier to understand URL like http://www.ebizontek.com/our_services
2. PathAuto module: As if the Path module wasn’t enough, with the PathAuto module get to create administrator controlled URL aliases generation. This would save the user from manually entering the URLs to specify paths.
3. Clean URLs: Available at Administrator- Site Configuration- Clean URLs, the feature allows for display of clean URLs. E.g.  http://www.ebizontek.com/?q=/contact-us becomes http://www.ebizontek.com/contact-us
4. Meta Tag module: The meta tag module lets you define meta tags for each view, node or panels page.
5. XML Sitemap module: XML Sitemap module helps automatically create a website map that is in-line with the specifications by sitemaps.org

The above are only a few of the examples on the powers embedded in Drupal to make your website more accessible to search engines.

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