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A client expresses that they believe Drupal is 'limiting SEO' for their 'minimalist' site.

My reply:

I am not sure why you are imagining that Drupal is limiting your SEO. I suspect Drupal is one of the best platforms for SEO, whether a site is basic or beyond. It just needs to be configured appropriately and then standard SEO practices applied on top of that layer.

The limitations of your site in Google are in no way a consequence of you choosing Drupal.

A client enquiry regarding SEO.

How can we improve the visibility of our Drupal site in Google?

Currently even when it is in the listings, only the site menu items are printed out. Google does not display any real text to describe the site.

My answer [edited]:

It is immediately apparent to me that the design of your home page gives Google little choice but to feature your Drupal menu.

My Drupal work

My work is mainly customisation and repairs to existing Drupal sites.

I maintain a number of sites on an ongoing basis.

I build new sites.

Your vision for your Drupal site

You have a vision. You wish to build a Drupal site that will look like {enter your desired look-and-feel} and be able to {enter your desired functionality}.

Or you have a Drupal site already. You wish to alter the look-and-feel, &/or you wish to extend the site to do x, y &/or z.

I can help you turn that vision into reality.

This site has been top of the google list (Australian version) for the keyword 'drupal' for a long time.

Improving this site's Google prominence - Drupal SEO related keywords

I want to help people needing Drupal SEO find this site; and find my phone number - here it is: 03 5968 1541. Perhaps I can help you.

I'm now interested in how I can optimise the site so that it comes up higher for the keyword pair 'drupal seo'.

With a bit of twiddling over the last few days I got it up to number 7 on the front page of google.com.au.

What is an estimate?

An estimate is just that - an intelligent guess based on a problem description provided by you and some investigation provided by me. The more accurate your problem description the more 'on target' will be my investigation and thus the more easy it will be to make the estimation.

Packt publishing have just released a new book on Drupal 6, titled 'Drupal 6 Social Networking'. They sent me the following article:

Drupal 6 Social Networking: Communicating with Users

Our users can communicate with one another, which is great, but quite often as an administrator the need may arise for us to communicate with a user or users on our site. It may be to remind them about the web site or to inform active users about new changes to the site, which they may not have been made aware of.

I'm currently very interested in people's experiences with 'estimation-blowout'. I posted the following to the Drupal Consultants mailing list and considerable discussion resulted.

For those interested here are links to the discussion thread as it developed in February and March, 2009

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I'm interested in how other developers and project managers setup payment or contracts under agile development. I found an interesting collection of possibilities, which I am in the process of evaluating.

Also, this article describing the process and payments per 'sprint' from one agile development firm.

Some further agile links:

• Drupal Pre-Consultations
• Drupal Requirements Analysis
• Drupal Planning and Design
• Drupal Development
• Drupal Hosting
• Drupal Installations
• Drupal Maintenance
• Drupal Content Management Direction
• Drupal Content Management Supervision
• Drupal Content Updates
• Drupal Revamps