Shows the process of automating and customizing the URLs and menu paths for different pieces of content.
Shows how to automatically redirect URLs to another URL with the global redirect module, and how to set up more specific redirects with the path redirect module.
Provides an overview and examples of clear calls to action for your website in order to optimize your conversion rate ratio.
Shows which meta tags are relevant and which ones are not, and how to set them up on your Drupal site.
Goes through setting up location-based information on your Drupal site, and from within Google so that you can optimize websites for local businesses.
See how to get some independent metrics on your SEO efforts by using a number of different graders and standards compliance websites.
Learn more about why it's important to have quickly loading pages for SEO purposes, and some possible modules to help speed up your page loads on simple websites.
Goes through the best practices for setting up the .htaccess file to ensure that there is not duplicate content on your domain name with or without the prefixing www.
Goes through the best practices for setting up your robots.txt file so that you can prevent the search engines from crawling specific pages on your Drupal site.
Goes through the process of validating the standards compliance of your website through a number of different websites.
Learn how to submit an XML sitemap of your entire website to the search engines so that they know about all of your content on your website.
Shows how to organize content silos by using Drupal's built-in navigational menu system.
Goes through the process of using Drupal's taxonomy system in order to cluster together similar content.
Shows how to optimize the HTML title tags on each page with SEO keywords, and takes a look at the HTML source code to see the hierarchical nature of the h1 and h2 tags.
Talks about some of the next steps in the on-going process of conducting an SEO campaign as well as some additional resources.
Image Styles
CourseThis video is about making custom image sizes for automatic display on your site! I am going to show you how you can create custom thumbnail sizes that can be used in your content types.
We already know that being able to set a standard for image display creates consistency and a better user experience. It also makes it for easier site administration because you don’t need to cut all of you images before you upload them. Drupal does all the work for you!! And we can specify the exact site we want to use.
I am assuming that you already know how to update the field display settings in your content type to select an image style preset.
For this tutorial, you need to make sure the Image module that comes with Drupal Core is enabled.
We are going to create an image display that has an aspect ratio of 4”x6”, but much smaller. Then we are going to add a couple other treatments to it so that it fits the theme of Photo Journal.
Drupal SEO Series
CourseStandardized documentation is crucial to a project, whether it is just you or an entire team working on it. In this tutorial we're going to look at:
- Standards for
@docblock
comments - Standards for inline comments
- Why standards for documentation and comments are as important as standards for the rest of your code.
By the end of this tutorial you'll know how to add inline documentation for all the PHP code that you write for Drupal.
Formatting standards cover things like the use of whitespace, how to format control structures, and other aspects that affect your code's appearance and format.
In this tutorial we’ll talk specifically about standards regarding formatting. This is by no means an exhaustive list of PHP syntax rules, but rather is focused on formatting standards for Drupal.
By the end of this tutorial you'll know about the most common Drupal code formatting standards as well as where to find more information when questions arise.