Drupal SEO optimizations

I think Drupal is the most search engine friendly out of the box. But there are still some things that need to be done to any installation to ensure search engine success, and save you from issues down the road. This is just a basic introduction to configuring a Drupal site for good search engine rankings. Here are the basic things you need to do, if you want your site to be shown and parsed normally by search crawlers.

1. b>Enable Clean URLs - this is default in Drupal 6, in Drupal 5 you will need to turn this on in admin/settings/clean-urls
2. Enable Path Module and install and enable Pathauto, Global Redirect and Token Modules - Pathauto is a great module to give your content a beautiful and very readable link like wordpress do. Global redirect removes link duplicates - for example, node/16 will be redirected to 2008/09/30/myteststory. Token is helper module for them to work.
3. Configure the Pathauto Module
4. Install and enable the Meta Tags Module - some people thinks that meta tags and keywords are obsolete things, but it would be good to have them, as some search systems parse them too.
5. Install enable the Page Title Module - Every page should have a good title that will clearly shows to user (and search bot) what is this page about by creating a custom page titles.
6. Install the XML Sitemap Module - this is good for Google, as google will know your site better with it
7. Fix .htaccess to redirect to "www" or remove the "www" subdomain - your site need one name to access, this is for better searching of your site