One of the first tasks when performing a brand new installation of Drupal is to ensure that clean urls are enabled in order to remove the horrible “?q=” from the urls in the site. Having a site without clean urls is not only bad for SEO purposes, but creates an extra barrier for users who might remember a certain page on your site. When they return they have to remember to type http://www.example.com/?q=page_title instead of the format that they are used to. (more…)
So tomorrow I will be heading off to one of my first web conferences at the Nlab Social Networks Conference in Leicester, and I must say I’m looking forward to it. The conference is all about social networks and communities andwill cover topics such as the future of social networks in business, from small businesses to large ones as well as the technical aspects such as Search Engine Optimisation.
It is this Search Engine Optimisation and Social Networking workshop that I will be participating in, which will help with my work at Reach Further and the SEO tips should hopefully improve my ranking for my blog as well by utilising the things that I learn whilst at the conference.
It should be a good day and I’ve even remembered to pack my business cards too!!
