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Drupal Basics--xmlsitemap Configuration Solution

Posted Wed, 2008-10-15 23:21 by matthew

A couple of nights ago I upgraded from Drupal 6.4 to 6.5. The next post I created threw an error--something like:

The selected file /tmp/filexxxx could not be uploaded, because the destination files/xmlsitemap/sitemap.xml.gz is not properly configured.
Unable to load site map. Make sure that there is an xmlsitemap directory in your files directory and that it is writable by Drupal.

Drupal Basics-Improving SEO with a Sitemap

Posted Fri, 2008-09-05 23:51 by matthew

There are two main kinds of search engine optimization (SEO)--Off Page and On Page.  Off Page optimization relies on the links you get from others increasing your page rank.

On Page optimization can include:

  • Ensuring that you have unique tiles and meta tags for your different pages and that they reflect the content of the page
  • Using a robots.txt file to prevent search engine bots from indexing pages you don't want them to index
  • Bulleted lists
  • Using "static pages" for each of your pages (pathauto will do this nicely and automatically on your Drupal site)
  • Creating a sitemap for the search engines to access