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Why Should You Use Drupal for Ecommerce Sites?

These day’s many organizations are now equipping themselves with e-commerce solutions to extract rich dividends out of it. E-commerce facilitates secure, easier and faster method of online shopping. However, to tap the unlimited and vast potential that e-commerce offers there arises a need to have e-commerce solutions which are result-focused and cost-effective. One of the exciting e-commerce solutions currently available in the market is Ubercart.

Back Up Drupal Development With Drupal Tools

Websites serve as a platform for your online business in order to showcase your products and services. The quality of a website depends upon the kind of content management system being installed. A good and an efficient content management system ensure a more user friendly website with large number of users. Drupal has become one of the chosen CMS (content management systems) for both individual blogs and business websites.

5 Standout Features in Drupal 7

Written in PHP/MySQL, Drupal is an open source content management system (CMS). Adopted by more than 7.2 million sites comprising of social networking sites, forums, media, news, blogs entertainment, politicians, corporate and several others, Drupal has been bestowed with several open source CMS awards. With several achievements to its credit, Drupal had certain shortcomings which were not just corrected with the recent release of Drupal 7 but has also added some more advanced features to the system.

Make the most of Drupal Ecommerce for Higher Productivity

The crucial aspects of starting an online business are website creation and promotion. In order to have a profitable online business, your site should be able to attract customers. It is because of the larger access to customers spread around the globe, as well as high profitability which make Ecommerce sites well accepted among the users. An ecommerce site can bring terrific result for your business when right ecommerce tools are made use of.

Drupal - The Perfect Platform for SEO

In order to thrive and sustain in today’s era of online business, it is necessary to maximize visibility and generate traffic to your site. This calls for the requirement of getting your website search engine optimized for major search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and MSN. Though there are several open source platforms available yet the best one still remains to be Drupal with Word press, Joomla being the other popular choices.

Google Caffeine and SEO

Google Caffeine is the buzzword in the search engine space and for webmasters looking to leverage the changing criteria for better search rankings.

As compared to the current google search engine, its much faster in bringing search results, relies much more on keyword strings in the relevant content and has real time search results to the core of its engine.

Drupal SEO - Page Titles

This is first of the SEO tips for drupal. Page Title is a small line of text in the HTML code which is displayed in Browser Title Bar. Its significance is huge for SEO as:

  1. It is displayed on the top of the browser in the browser title bar
  2. It is the heading of search results on google and most other search engines
  3. It is used by search engines for important keywords for indexing the web page
  4. It is the title when someone bookmarks your site

In drupal, there are two ways of managing the page titles:

Factoring Site Speed for better rankings

Google has recently announced that it will add another factor for search engine rankings - Site Speed. According to Matt Cutts, head of Google's anti-spam team: “If you're a fast site, maybe you should get a little bit of a bonus. If you really have an awfully slow site, then maybe users don't want that as much”

This does not mean that you need to get your site load fastest on the earth. It means that on relative terms, your site speed needs to be better than your competitors for the same set of keywords.

Session table management

Recently, the session table on one of our client's site grew to 3.2 GB and got locked and the server eventually became full with PHP opening lots of connections trying to open the sessions table.

To resolve this issue, we found the Session Expire module (http://drupal.org/project/session_expire). This module trims the session regularly based on cron job, and hence is a background process, and is consistent and predictable regardless of PHP's garbage collection configuration.

Why Validate with W3C?

W3C validated xHTML and css is one of the most suggested SEO tip nowadays. But why to go an extra step to make the site comply with the W3c standards when the code seems to be just fine? If you want your site to be professional, accessible and rank higher in search engines, you need a compliant site.