Drupal's Yoast

[DonnaDuncan]

Hi.

I'm wondering if anyone knows of an equivalent to Yoast for Drupal sites? Is there such a thing?

I've been asked whether I could optimize a Drupal site and am wondering if the guiding principles and techniques I use for HTML and Wordpress sites can be easily transferred to a Drupal implementation, or whether I might be setting myself (and the client!) up for failure.

Any observations or advice would be appreciated.

[DirkC]

Hi Donna,

The general principles are also applicable for Drupal - which normally is quite flexible to fine tune in terms of SEO. It is however a bit more complex to setup & configure compared to a Wordpress site.

You should check the tools mentioned in this article https://www.acquia.com/blog/4-steps-optimize-your-drupal-site-increase-traffic (step 2 list some modules that can help - the rest will be quite obvious for you). Acquia is the company founded by the guy who started Drupal - so the modules that are suggested should be ok.

We use Drupal as well - but as it's implemented by a technical partner we just give the requirements, we don't know which modules they use to deliver what we ask.

Hope this helps

Dirk

[DonnaDuncan]

Thank you Dirk.

This is a good place for me to start. Any chance you could ask your technical partner which modules they'd recommend given it seems to have satisfied your requirements?

[DirkC]

Hi Donna,

Will check with them (hope that they didn't program everything from scratch) - will be for beginning of next week, weekend already started in Europe...

rgds,

Dirk

[DonnaDuncan]

Thanks Dirk. I appreciate you doing that for me.

[DirkC]

Hi Donna,

Didn't forget your question - however the first reply I got was a bit too generic (Drupal can do everything that Yoast does, and even better, but sometimes several modules are required).

Would it be possible to indicate for which Yoast functions you would need a solution - so I can be a bit more specific in when asking info from them.

Rgds,

Dirk

[DonnaDuncan]

Thank you so much Dirk. So helpful.

My answer is going to be like theirs - "everything". So no help. I think it best to just leave this question for now, and I'll post another one when I'm knee deep with specific questions I need answered. I don't want to unnecessarily waste anyone's time.

Thank you again. I really appreciate your efforts.

Donna

[DonnaDuncan]

Just wanted to post this here for anyone else who views this question - a tool that claims to be very similar to Yoast for Wordpress. http://getlevelten.com/products/oe/search-engine-optimization

I haven't looked into it any further at this point so can't offer an opinion.