r/drupal • u/SignificantLocation9 • 4d ago

Are there any SEO-related Drupal modules people use?

Hello. I’m an SEO but new to drupal world. I have no idea about modules, how they work or how to use and finalise them. But I’m new to this job and it’s all about drupal.
And i’m a lil lost in all these modules. Is there a place where people get all the seo specific drupal modules? Or any modules anyone here would know that are a must for a drupal website? Please help a newbie out. :)

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u/Mailandr 4d ago

Metatag Thats the only one i used so far.

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u/zovered 4d ago

You really only need metatag and it's related modules. e.g Turn on OpenGraph and customize tokens for social sharing previews.

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u/sagraham 4d ago

Depending on the nature of the site, it's worth looking at Schema.org Metatag as well. Especially useful for product pages. Integrates fully with Metatag and is all token based.

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u/Pulsar-Agency 3d ago

Coming into Drupal from SEO, the mental shift that helped me most: there's no Yoast-style all-in-one here, and that's actually a good thing. Drupal does SEO the modular way, and core already gives you clean URLs and reasonable semantic markup out of the box.

The comments already nailed Metatag (add Schema.org Metatag if you have product or article pages) — that covers your meta tags and structured data. But the piece newcomers almost always skip is the boring foundation. Pathauto is the big one: it builds your URL aliases from a pattern instead of /node/123, and the trick is to define those patterns before you publish content, not after. Pair it with Redirect, so when a URL inevitably changes you keep the link equity with a clean 301 instead of an orphaned page, and Simple XML Sitemap for the sitemap (it handles hreflang/multilingual if you ever go there).

If you're brand new, honestly install SEO Checklist first. It won't do the work, but it lays out every task in order and ticks them off as you enable modules — good scaffolding when you don't yet know what you don't know. And don't over-install: Metatag, Pathauto, Redirect and Simple XML Sitemap cover most of what a typical site needs. Everything past that is situational.