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Acquia Podcast 29: Ben Finklea on SEO in Drupal

Posted on Thu, Apr 28, 2011 12:54 by Steve Edwards

One of the strong points of Drupal is its built in search engine optimization capabilities right out of the box. Ben Finklea is the founder and CEO of Volacci, a firm that specializes in SEO for Drupal sites, and in this episode we talk about SEO in Drupal, the SEO Checklist module, the status of the Drupal 7 version of his book on SEO in Drupal, and some upcoming SEO training Volacci is doing with Acquia.

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Posted on by Tom Geller.

Around 8:00, you talk about linking to the list of SEO modules that Ben maintains. Could you add that list?

Thanks!

Posted on by Steve Edwards.

Good catch. I added the link to the Volacci blog post that has the link to the SEO module availability matrix to the show notes above.

Posted on by Sil Kogelman.

I think I got stuck in a spamfilter at the Volacci blog so I'll post it here.
People that want to optimize SEO in terms of metadata, have a look at these projects:
http://drupal.org/proj ect/opengraph_meta
http://drupal.org/project/m icrodata
http://drupal.org/projec t/richsnippets

Posted on by Happy JoeJoe.

Also check out the SEO Compliance module for Drupal, and its worth running some <a href="http://igniteresearch.ne t">seo software</a> to check for any possible crawl errors.

Posted on by Happy JoeJoe.

Sorry that should be http://igniteresearch.net

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