A Recipe for a Rapid Drupal Site--Part VI, Finishing Up

Last but not least, we're going to look at:

• Spam Control
• XML Sitemap to help with search engine optimization
• Setup Metatagging
• Human Readable (and search engine readable) URLs
• Fivestar rating on content
• ServiceLinks to allow for social bookmarking

Spam Control
I've been using Mollom a fair bit lately. I think it works quite a lot better than simply using a Captcha. You can get instructions on setting up Mollum in a previous post.

XML Sitemap
An XML sitemap gives search engines a map of what to index. Earlier this year I posted instructions on setting up a sitemap.

Metatagging
The Nodewords Module will help you set up proper metatagging of your content in Drupal.

Pathauto
In the second we enabled Path and Pathauto.

• Go to admin/build/path/pathauto
• From here you should see several collapsible field sets. The presets here are good and may not need any tweaking. This is where you would re-alias your site if you aren't starting from scratch.

Fivestar Ratings
We've already enabled the voting API and Fivestar.

• Head to admin/settings/fivestar and choose what style of rating you'd like to use
• Then you'll need to set each content type you want to allow users to rate content on. For example, if you want to set fivestar on blog posts, you would go to admin/content/types and click edit on Blog
• Un-collapse the fivestar fieldset and click the enable checkbox
• Choose the the number the stars you'd like display
• Choose the various star label settings you'd like to set such as displaying a title, allowing users to undo votes, whether to display on the teaser and so forth
• Save the content type

Service Links
Setting up social bookmarking links is as simple as allowing for basic fivestar ratings. We've already enabled social bookmarking.

• Pop over to admin/settings/servicelinks
• Check off the content types you want to allow social bookmarking on
• You could choose to set categories--on http://traumaadoption.org we left this alone
• Check off the services you would like to display
• Choose when you want links to show up
• Choose whether you want to display text, icons, or both
• Save the page

At this point we have gone through the process of planning out the site, downloading and enabling both modules and themes, setting up blocks, creating content types, creating views to display content from the content types in on both pages and blocks, setting up a home page, placing a google ad, set up terms and conditions to use the site, enabled some spam control, set up some basic SEO, made our URLs human readable, and allowed for social bookmarking.

The final step is to add content and moving the site to your host!