Your SEO Experience with Drupal CMS

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I am using mainly Drupal and Wordpress and I am not experienced in PHP.
For corporate websites we always prefer Drupal. Wordpress for simple blogs.
But I can definitely say Drupal is more flexible and easier for developers to customize. Creating new content in Drupal is very simple, I can produce easily my own content types.

In terms of SEO: In the first days I had bad experience because you can "play" too much with tons of settings such as page titles and automatic url settings.
Drupal produces far more "URL-garbage", each new module again creates some own URLs that even can get indexed then Wordpress.

Can you share your SEO relevant experience using Drupal to build your corporate website? What modules are most important to use and what kinds of mistakes you did?
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  • I have a few sites with Drupal (although recently focusing on Wordpress for smaller sites).

    SEO wise it's been pretty cut and dry though, just make sure you have the right modules.

    Been a while since I installed these but I think the main ones are, nodewords, path, and pagetitle. Those will let you edit your meta info and page titles to whatever you want.

    Then make sure you've got the 'clean' urls on. Theres also one called globaredirect that takes care of duplicate content and canonical issues.
  • I have drupal 5 on my site www.1up-seo.com, its BY FAR not easy. I think Drupal is way, way more complex than wordpress. Simply approving comments i need like 15 clicks Handling of modules and many other things....horrible. Yes, its very powerful and flexible and i rank well with it...but sometimes it can be a pain to maintain.
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    • I agree it seems to be cumbersome in many areas. I never even tried WP until a few months ago, it was a breath of fresh air after being used to Drupal.

      On the developer side of things it's great the power and control you have but for many of the sites I'm building now it's just not worth all the hassle, plus most of the interesting plugins for IM are WP anyways.
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    Your SEO Experience with Drupal CMS

    I am using mainly Drupal and Wordpress and I am not experienced in PHP. For corporate websites we always prefer Drupal. Wordpress for simple blogs. But I can definitely say Drupal is more flexible and easier for developers to customize. Creating new content in Drupal is very simple, I can produce easily my own content types.