I keep seeing virtually the same articles posted on SEO sites that describe using advanced Google search operators to find backlinks, but none get down to actually showing useful examples. Finding backlinks by advanced search operator is something I’ve been using for the past 5+ years and I can say that it undoubtedly works, especially when consistently acquired over time.

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We just finished up a real quickie Drupal site conversion for FindNews.org, an older news domain I’ve owned for over 6 years. The site was running on DotNetNuke since late 2004 and needed to be converted over to something a little more intuitive for us to manage and more search engine friendly. Drupal was the obvious choice. So, we simply plugged in Drigg, the Digg-style Drupal module, to allow for the social voting functionality you’ll notice on the site.

If anyone would like to benefit from this website and submit anything news worthy, please feel free to do so. You’ll get some decent traffic if the news is worthy enough and you’ll also receive a link back to your website. Previous to the site’s conversion (several days ago) the daily visitors was ~8,000 to 12,000 per day and there are roughly 150 to 200 visitors on the site at any given time.

We still have some things left as far as cleaning up some of the design and functionality of this social news website, but for the most part the initial Phase 1 functionality is pretty solid. Let us know how you like it and feel free to leave any suggestions below or through the FindNews.org contact page. Thanks and enjoy!

We are getting ready to port a new Drupal theme called "Publisher" over to Drupal 5.x and 6.x. This theme is extremely clean and elegant and I’m sure will be a huge success. You can find out more about our professional Drupal themes project by visiting ThemeSnap.com.

Snapshot of the Drupal Publisher Theme

What’s cool about this latest Drupal theme we are working on is that it can be adapted to so many types of websites and for numerous indstries, i.e. a newspaper or magazine, music website, legal/law site, fashion, community, business/corporate, education, etc.

Features of the Drupal Publisher Theme

• Tabbed content header – (for rotating news or site information)
• Front page image thumbnail previews (sidebar and center content location)
• Video thumbnail integration
• Elegant top-nav dropdown menus
• Several front page custom views of content, i.e. title teasers
• Fast loading and validated CSS/XHTML Drupal theme

We are working on two additional themes after the release of the Publisher theme. Our goal is to be the leader in high-end, custom Drupal themes that use popular modules like CCK, Views, Imagecache, and others.

Tell us what you think (despite the small-ish, blurry thumb)

If you use the Drupal Sitemap module (also called XML Sitemap), you’ve probably noticed that a site upgrade will convert your search engine friendly URL aliases back to the default Drupal node URLs, i.e. /node/123, etc. This XML Sitemap problem causes URL duplication in search engines since the pathauto URLs would now be replaced by the node version.

If you are unsure or using an earlier 5.x versions, I would suggest to check your XML sitemap page to see if you have the same issue. If you find that this has happened to you, here are a few things to help correct the issue (found via Drupal). Note: I would always suggest testing on a staging site versus a live site.

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We have decided to brand ourselves under a new domain called SocialSEO.com. This new domain name will live under our SEO Position LLC name, so essentially we are not changing much besides the domain name itself.

There are several reasons for this switch, but we did it primarily because much of our marketing focus has been more on the social marketing side for the last year. By social marketing I mean social marketing services and lots of social network building and social network development (via Drupal) for clients.

We plan to post more topics related to social SEO but we still will be providing Drupal development , SEO consulting , and other Internet marketing services.

So stay tuned for more Social SEO topics in the coming days and weeks!

The Efficient theme is now available and can be purchased and downloaded from ThemeSnap.com

Update #1: Please read this comment below: "Here is an Update for the Efficient Theme"

We have been very busy over the previous two months – one of the reasons for my lack of posting anything here in a while ;-( We are close to launching a Premium Drupal theme website where we will be adding around one to two Drupal themes per month – all created for different industries like real estate, newspaper or magazine, and social networking niches among others. Buyers would receive support and upgrades after purchasing the themes.

This theme is near completion. The way it works is simple – images and text snippets will be pulled into the home page blocks using several popular pre-installed Drupal modules. The images will be scaled/resized to fit a certain width and height so that images will not break the page.

I hope that Drupal users will love the versatility and design of these themes as much as we do. Let us know what you think or suggest a Drupal theme you would like to see created by telling us below in the comments. Thanks!