Hi, Where can I place my robots.txt and sitemap.xml? I went ahead and placed them in /var/discourse but they cannot be read by google or bing. Thanks, Johnny

As I said you can’t upload a sitemap. There is a plugin: [image] Discourse Sitemap Plugin discourse2 Summary Discourse Sitemap adds a sitemap.xml to your Discourse instance open_book Install Guide This plugin is bundled with Discourse core. There is no …

Discourse manages the sitemap, you can’t manually upload a file.

Where can I then upload a sitemap for my site?

Pages that rank poorly on Google are, almost always, pages with poor and non-unique content.

[image] eextra: poorly indexed compared to other forums cms. I can’t speak as to “other forums CMS” but I find that topics / posts are indexed before Moderators can determine if they should even be indexed. i.e. within a very few minutes at most.

Where To Place sitemap.xml?

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eextra (Sylwia) February 5, 2020, 11:54am 5

If it’s not needed, why is it?
The question is not accidental, because the pages after a 3-month google test are poorly indexed compared to other forums cms. What could be the reason for this?

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