Archive for the ‘seo’ Category
Adding Meta Descriptions to Taxonomy Pages
August 8th, 2009 | 
Author: In the previous meta description entries I created a meta description field for my content type, altered my page.tpl to show the meta description if it was available and used the site $mission field to use as the front page meta description.
Now I need to alter it again to use a taxonomies term description as the meta description for those pages. I also added a title alteration for paginated pages.
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Using Webmaster Tools to Check For Problems
Now that I have enough content up a sitemap submitted to Google and Bing time to check with Googles Webmaster Tools to check for any problems.
Tags: Drupal Sitemaps
Because this domain was bought and used for a while for development and testing for all kinds of things its got continual search bot traffic to those old urls. Some of them I do not want to delete and force a 404 to get rid of.
A couple of google gadgets and other things I'd like to keep. But the robots are not searching the new content they are continually pulling things that will never change.
A sitemap.xml file would help as the fact that those pages would not be listed should get them to give more attention to the newer / real content.
More Drupal meta tag work
Getting my meta description tag working how I wanted went well (Content Type Field Alterations More meta tag work) until I visited the taxonomy page and any other pages that weren't a normal node or the front page.
More meta tag work
Now that I have my main content type collecting a meta description field I have to edit my template (For a few more days using Garland (I should have just copied Garland into the proper directory before I edited it but no worries for now)