Drupal SEO Issues
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Hi, I have two questions regarding my enterprise website. It is built on the Drupal CMS.
First, and in looking at Google Analytics, I'm seeing more than 6k pages listed, but over 5k have received less than 10 page views in six months. In fact, most of them are not really content pages at all.
The URLs I'm seeing listed, which to me indicates actual crawlable content in GA, shows pages like this:
http://www.domainname.com/node/2153
http://www.domainname.com/company/careers?gnk=apply&gni=8a87142e4d086a73014d2a0d65242b8e&gns=glassdoor+free
http://www.domainname.com/blog?page=1
http://www.domainname.com/resources/videos?field_video_category_value=all&page=4&page=1
http://www.domainname.com/search/site?search_api_views_fulltext=talent+poolWhat is the problem here? Why are these non-pages being indexed as content and why are they showing up in GA?
Second question is about my blog and blog best practices. While I know blog content is important for SEO, why is my site blog pagination being indexed as content. For example, these "pages" are showing up in SERPs:
http://www.domainname.com/blog/tag/business_intelligence?page=2
http://www.domainname.com/blog/topic/expansion?page=5
http://www.domainname.com/blog/weeks_news_april_26What is the best way to fix this?
Thanks in advance for your help!
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So Google Analytics sends information based on what users are doing, so if you see those pages in Google Analytics that means that people have gone to them. What your question really tells me is that you do not have a good understanding of how your website functions and how Google Analytics records data, I would recommend you take some time and go through Google Analytic's Academy, it will really help you understand what the data means and how to interpret it based on how it is gathered.
https://analytics.google.com/analytics/academy/
For your blog question, if you are using wordpress you can tell it to not index large swaths of the procedurally generated pages in the site settings.
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