In the third part of Drupal 8, website building from a scratch series I will focus on a few essential must have, modules to boost Drupal website's SEO and usability.
Before continuing to learn how to build a successful Drupal 8 Website, make sure to check out previous articles in the series: Building Drupal 8 Website From Scratch - Part 1 (Domain name, Hosting), Building Drupal 8 Website From Scratch - Part 2 (Content Types, Custom Fields, Manage Display)
Despite Drupal 8 has built into the core many nice features and modules missing in the previous Drupal 7 release, there are still some essential modules required to boost your Drupal website to the new heights.
In today's article, I will name them and a brief comment about each of them.
Pathauto
A must-have module for SERP friendly result converts node/1 in my-amazing-tile
The Pathauto module automatically generates URL/path aliases for various kinds of content (nodes, taxonomy terms, users) without requiring the user to manually specify the path alias. This allows you to have URL aliases like /category/my-node-title instead of /node/123. The aliases are based upon a "pattern" system that uses tokens which the administrator can change.
Read How To Setup Pretty URL's For Drupal 8
Google Analytics
A must have to track your website's traffic and analyze audience
Adds the Google Analytics web statistics tracking system to your website
Read How To Setup Google Analytics For Drupal 8 Website
Disqus (Optional)
Replace default Drupal comment system with Disqus. No matter how greatly evolved Drupal 8 if compared to Drupal 7, there is one part that really sucks in Drupal (without heavy modification) - comments. Forget about core comment system and give it a try to third-party Disqus module. Greatly reduces spam.
DISQUS is a comments platform that helps you build an active community from your website's audience. It has awesome features, powerful tools, and it's easy to install.
Download Disqus module