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

Thanks for this. I've got it installed and both path and this enabled. I'm unable to generate the user/1 to user/name or blog/1 to blog/name scenario.

Did you run the bulk update in settings?

[Zhen-Xjell]

Originally Posted by tamarian

Did you run the bulk update in settings?

Yes I have tried that. I'll attempt it again now.

[Zhen-Xjell]

I checked for all bulk updates to occur, and get this:

The configuration options have been saved.
Bulk update of user blogs completed, 0 aliases generated.
Bulk update of nodes completed, 0 aliases generated.
Bulk update of terms completed, 0 aliases generated.
Bulk update of users completed, 0 aliases generated.
Bulk update of index aliases completed, 0 aliases generated.

[tamarian]

Originally Posted by Zhen-Xjell

I checked for all bulk updates to occur, and get this:

The configuration options have been saved.
Bulk update of user blogs completed, 0 aliases generated.
Bulk update of nodes completed, 0 aliases generated.
Bulk update of terms completed, 0 aliases generated.
Bulk update of users completed, 0 aliases generated.
Bulk update of index aliases completed, 0 aliases generated.

Take a look into the drupal_url_alias table, it will show all the generated paths.

[futuregizmo]

this worked great for me but i have a problem. my blog site's url is www.mysite.com/blog and when i added this module, the user's blog url has been changed to www.mysite.com/blog/blog/username

is there a way to change the url alias to just www.mysite.com/blog/username or better, just www.mysite.com/username ?

[tamarian]

Originally Posted by futuregizmo

this worked great for me but i have a problem. my blog site's url is www.mysite.com/blog and when i added this module, the user's blog url has been changed to www.mysite.com/blog/blog/username

is there a way to change the url alias to just www.mysite.com/blog/username or better, just www.mysite.com/username ?

It shouldn't be doing that, so we need to find out why it's doing it. Is the site URL set up correctly, send me your site's URL and I'll take a look.

[tamarian]

Originally Posted by tamarian

It shouldn't be doing that, so we need to find out why it's doing it. Is the site URL set up correctly, send me your site's URL and I'll take a look.

Correction. If the main drupal site URL is something/blog then it's expected that the blog page will be something/blog/blog.

[lazyseller]

Everything seems to be working for me with this mod... thanks tamarian....

[Zhen-Xjell]

Originally Posted by tamarian

drupal_url_alias

Hi'ya tamarian, I ran a select and got only this back:

+-----+--------+----------+
| pid | src | dst |
+-----+--------+----------+
| 2 | node/1 | der_test |
| 5 | node/2 | test |
+-----+--------+----------+


The user and blog aliases aren't converting over. /me scratches head

[Zhen-Xjell]

Originally Posted by Zhen-Xjell

Hi'ya tamarian, I ran a select and got only this back:

+-----+--------+----------+
| pid | src | dst |
+-----+--------+----------+
| 2 | node/1 | der_test |
| 5 | node/2 | test |
+-----+--------+----------+


The user and blog aliases aren't converting over. /me scratches head

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

http://de.castlecops.com/user/mrrockford
http://de.castlecops.com/der_test
http://de.castlecops.com/blog/paul