SEO

Here's a quick tip which will influence your performance and SEO. It's just about uncommenting 2 lines of code in the .htaccess file that ships with Drupal (and replacing some text), but I've seen a lot of sites that tend to forget this.

Suppose your domain is something like yourdomain.com. Check now if you can access your site by prefixing your domain with www. and by not doing it. So check if http://www.yourdomain.com is accessible and if http://yourdomain.com is (without redirection to one of the two). If so, this article is for you.

A few posts back, I wrote about creating a list of articles that link to some other article, i.e. a list of "backlinks". That post back then was focused on Drupal 7.

I'm a bit shocked though, that nobody noticed or mentioned that this feature already exists in Drupal 6. I had no idea either. So this heads up here is to make things right.

When you have the core Search module enabled and have Views installed and enabled, you should get a default view called "backlinks".

Sorry for my bad researching skills!

A popular feature request for sites that deal with a lot of content, is to see for each page what other pages are linking back to it. This can be helpful when doing some SEO or cleaning up and rewriting old content.

In Drupal 7 this is easily done. It exists where you wouldn't immediately expect it though: the core search module. Kind of mimicking how search bots like Google's indexer works, Drupal 7's search module now takes the amount of nodes linking back to another node to calculate the score for some result.