SEO for Drupal 7

SEO for Drupal 7

Friday, Aug 14, 2015
When building a new website, SEO can sometimes be a bit of an afterthought, coming in after design, user experience, functionality, and a host of other considerations. This is a bit strange really, given that if you’re not getting eyeballs to your site, all the rest of it counts for nothing! Fortunately, Drupal has a bunch of contributed modules available that can help whip your site into Google-friendly shape. A good place to start is with the SEO checklist module, which provides a huge list of ways to improve your SEO. ...

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Web Performance Audit: Huntingdon Business Fair

Web Performance Audit: Huntingdon Business Fair

Tuesday, Apr 28, 2015
We recently attended the Huntingdon Business Fair and were really pleased to see both the variety and strength of the business community inside Huntingdonshire and the surrounding area. Whilst we were there we were offering a free website performance audit to anyone who left us a business card which was well received. Some interesting results occurred from this. Generally speaking, connections to the internet are getting quicker, however, this doesn’t seem to have resulted in faster website/web services, just more and more being sent to users. ...

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My Drupal Migration Equation

My Drupal Migration Equation

Sunday, Sep 5, 2010
I have been reading recently about developers giving realistic timescales to deliver projects in. I am well aware that developers can over and under estimate projects and also that you can spend a lot of time developing a project only for the idea to be changed just before the site is ready to be released. However with this in mind here is my Drupal migration timescale equation: D + 12 + P + F = H ...

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XMLWriter for Google Base and Beyond

XMLWriter for Google Base and Beyond

Sunday, Sep 5, 2010
I had a whale of a time trying to get some data posted onto Google Base, to enable the shop to sell items from Google Products. Although I am sure that popular e-commerce packages, and probably CMSs, all have uploader modules/components/plugins to do this for you, it is difficult trying to do a bulk export with xml so here is a quickie I wrote to help with getting the correct syntax for Google base using PHP’s XMLWriter tool: ...

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Speed Affect on Search Rankings

Speed Affect on Search Rankings

Friday, Dec 18, 2009
I have been reading a bit recently about how speed is going to become very relevent in search engines results. And I do no mean merely the speed of the web server/site. Speed to me means two sepearte things. Both the speed of the site, and the speed which you can get your article/posting/page listed in search results. ##1. Page Speed I have been recently working on getting a few of my sites running quicker. ...

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Sitemaps - Let Them Know You're There

Sitemaps - Let Them Know You're There

Sunday, Sep 20, 2009
Getting started with sitemaps for SEO and discoverability.

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