vB Drupal CMS, Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

This is an addon module for vB Drupal: Community Plumbing

This addon should work for both vB Drupal versions, the 3.0.x version and 3.5 version.

What does it do: This module will automatically generate search engine optimized links to your vB Drupal content.

vB Drupal by default has two options that make it search engine friendly, custom path alias, and clean URL's.

This module extends those options by enhancing those clean URL's by adding text. For example, a blog entry titled "The meaning of life", will generate an auto link in the index as "mysite.com/The_meaning_of_life". It will also map user id's to user names. So instead of /blog/2" it will become "blog/tamarian" etc.

The pathauto module from Drupal will not work with vB Drupal, this modified version allows it to work with your vB Drupal.

One major change from the original module is that it will not scan your entire user table, only users who have content. This avoids timeout issues, and optimizes the performance by only generating links to users who have content.

Orginal source: http://drupal.org/node/17345

License: GPL

Installation: Unzip and upload the entire pathauto directory to your vB Drupal module directory. Activate the module in your module settings, and configure the settings/pathauto page. Note that you should also activate the path module, they need to work together.

[tamarian]

Originally Posted by Zhen-Xjell

Must let you know, as of 1.2.2, I was able to get the aliases created successfully:

Good to know :up: I must admit, I still don't know if there was anything changed that might make it behave differently. So the mystery is not solved, but at least it's resolved

[Zhen-Xjell]

Ahh, I think I see what is going on. If a user account has contributed say a story, then the user URL is aliases:

http://de.castlecops.com/user/paul

If a user has not contributed, then the alias is not created:

http://de.castlecops.com/user/15

You can compare... http://de.castlecops.com/

"By mrrockford at Thu, 03/11/2005 - 05:55 "

"mrrockford" is aliases. If you check "Who's new", none at the moment are aliased.

So there seems to be a condition (without checking the code).

[tamarian]

Originally Posted by Zhen-Xjell

Ahh, I think I see what is going on. If a user account has contributed say a story, then the user URL is aliases:

http://de.castlecops.com/user/paul

If a user has not contributed, then the alias is not created:

Correct

[Zhen-Xjell]

Originally Posted by tamarian

Correct

Roger that. Is there an option to cron this?

[tamarian]

Originally Posted by Zhen-Xjell

Roger that. Is there an option to cron this?

The module author has that planned for the next release.

[Zhen-Xjell]

Originally Posted by tamarian

The module author has that planned for the next release.

10-4 thanks.

Quick question on maintaining this for the moment. I'll run the pathauto batch updates, and instead of /user/paul I get /user/paul_0 although there is no other paul. I think go into the url_aliases under admin and fix it up.

I believe the problem may have been with keeping old aliases but creating new ones too. So I simply selected overwrite any old aliases.

Is this alright?

[tamarian]

Originally Posted by Zhen-Xjell

10-4 thanks.

Quick question on maintaining this for the moment. I'll run the pathauto batch updates, and instead of /user/paul I get /user/paul_0 although there is no other paul. I think go into the url_aliases under admin and fix it up.

I believe the problem may have been with keeping old aliases but creating new ones too. So I simply selected overwrite any old aliases.

Is this alright?

Yes, the bulkupdate should only be used once. I'll make an update to make it update when a user enters their first blog/node entry, so this wouldn't happen.

[Zhen-Xjell]

Perfect, I'll let you know how it goes.

[Zhen-Xjell]

@tamarian, I got the update email but I don't see an attachment here?

[tamarian]

Originally Posted by Zhen-Xjell

@tamarian, I got the update email but I don't see an attachment here?

Oops. Try it again.