Huge List of the Best Drupal 6 & 7 SEO & Social Media Modules | SocialSEO.com
Posted November 19th, 2010 by Brian Gilley If you're managing one or many Drupal websites you probably use at least one or a few Drupal modules to achieve some website optimization. Search engine friendly URLs, Twitter integration, optimized page titles, and so on are just a few of the most common enhancements performed by Drupal users. There are many beneficial modules that will improve the indexation and page ranking of your Drupal website, not to mention bring in more visitors, increase social networking, and better align user actions such as purchasing a product or filling out a membership form. Also, the better the relevance of your website content, the better search engines will generally rank your website's pages. Last, many Drupal theme customers will ask us what modules are the best or how to add social media icons and links to their Drupal website. Page Title - The page title module improves the HTML header tag which shows up in the <title> location. Updated: July 11, 2011
Taxonomy Manager
This module provides a powerful interface for managing taxonomies. A vocabulary gets displayed in a dynamic tree view, where parent terms can be expanded to list their nested child terms or can be collapsed. The Taxonomy Manager has following operations and key features: dynamic treeviewmass deletingmass adding of new termsmoving of terms in hierarchiesmerging of terms (using the Term merge module in 7.x)fast weight changing with up and down arrows (and AJAX saving)AJAX powered term editing formsimple search interfaceCSV Export of termsi18n support for multilingual vocabularies (per language terms)Double Tree interface for moving terms in hierarchies, adding new translations and switching terms between different vocabularies For using the Taxonomy Manager you should have JavaScript and automatically load of images enabled in your browser. This is a Google Summer of Code 2007 project. Credits: The project has been sponsored by
Page Title
The word "title" is a bit overloaded. Every piece of content in Drupal has a title, and so does every page. The page title is the one found in the HTML head inside the <title> tag. It is also used on SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages) and can greatly enhance your websites SEO (Search Engine Optimization). This module gives you granular control over the page title. Page Title 2 What features are in Page Title 2? Token Integration: This module integrates with the fantastic Token module. Handy modules which work with Page Title There are now a few modules which help you use Page Title to get the best out of your SEO. Content Optimizer - provides you with an inline keyword analysis of your content.SEO Friend - Generate reports of content SEO across the site (eg, which pages are missing Page Titles or Meta Tags) Testing The Drupal 6 and 7 branches now both come equipped with a SimpleTest. Page Title API Introduced in version 2.4, the module now has an API. The 3 hooks are: Drupal 5 Drupal 6 Drupal 7
Printer, e-mail and PDF versions
This module allows you to generate the following printer-friendly versions of any node: Printer-friendly version (webpage format) (at www.example.com/print/nid)PDF version (at www.example.com/printpdf/nid)EPUB version (at www.example.com/printepub/nid)Send by email (at www.example.com/printmail/nid) where nid is the node id of content to render. Important: The current versions of the module require at least Drupal 6.11 or 7.0. By editing the default print.css or specifying your own CSS file and/or the print.tpl.php files, it is possible to change the look of the output page to suit your taste. Drupal 6: print[_html|_mail|_pdf][.node-node-type].tpl.php located in either the current theme or the module directory. Drupal 7: print[--html|--mail|--pdf][--node--node-type].tpl.php located in the current theme directory. Where node-type is Drupal's node type (e.g. page, story, etc.). You must install one of the following third-party tools to generate PDFs: PHPePub (only in the 7.x-2.x branch)
ImageAPI
This API is meant to be used in place of the API provided by image.inc. You probably do not need to install this module unless another module are you using requires it. It provides no new features to your Drupal site. It only provides an API other modules can leverage. This module is specifically for Drupal 6 and older. Differences from Drupal core's image.inc Images are objects.Images are not written on each image operation and must be explicitly closed when processing is complete. Related Modules
Token
Tokens are small bits of text that can be placed into larger documents via simple placeholders, like %site-name or [user]. The Token module provides a central API for modules to use these tokens, and expose their own token values. Note that Token module doesn't provide any visible functions to the user on its own, it just provides token handling services for other modules. For Drupal 6, the Token module provides a "Token Actions" module which can be enabled separately. Modules that use the Token module and provide tokens via the API include Organic Groups, Pathauto, Comment Notify, and Commerce. Pledges #D7CX: The basic token API is now a part of Drupal 7! #D7AX - I pledge to make this module as accessible as it can be.
Pathauto
The Pathauto module automatically generates URL/path aliases for various kinds of content (nodes, taxonomy terms, users) without requiring the user to manually specify the path alias. This allows you to have URL aliases like /category/my-node-title instead of /node/123 . The aliases are based upon a "pattern" system that uses tokens which the administrator can change. Requirements Versions The 7.x-1.x and 6.x-2.x branches are currently accepting new feature requests and are kept in sync as much as possible. Known issues Multilingual URL alias support is still a little unstable and should be tested before used in production. Recommended modules Redirect (D7) / Path Redirect (D6) when installed Pathauto will provide a new "Update Action" in case your URLs change. Co-Maintainers Pathauto was originally written by mikeryan and maintained by Greg Knaddison (greggles) . Pledges #D8CX : I pledge that Pathauto will have a full Drupal 8 release on the day that Drupal 8 is released. Downloads
Chaos tool suite (ctools)
This suite is primarily a set of APIs and tools to improve the developer experience. It also contains a module called the Page Manager whose job is to manage pages. In particular it manages panel pages, but as it grows it will be able to manage far more than just Panels. For the moment, it includes the following tools: Plugins -- tools to make it easy for modules to let other modules implement plugins from .inc files.
