I just opened our forums to be discovered by Google and used the search console to index our site. (I’m not sure if there are other things that I should be doing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (any suggestions?) Here’s the feedback I got from Google Search Console: [image]

Because your forum has been login_required and/or blocking indexing for so long, it’ll be a while before the crawler rechecks your robots.txt file and sees that it’s been unblocked. There’s probably a button to request a recrawl somewhere in there, or you can just wait.

Have you checked your robots.txt?

I’m not sure what to look at in my robots.txt or where to find it. I did make sure this box was checked, in my admin settings… [image]

I don’t know if this makes a difference in the case of my question but one other thing to note is that i’m doing SSO and using Wordpress as my provider. would that make a difference, here? My site is pickleballist.com My forum is forums.pickleballist.com

Your robots.txt lives in the root of each site, so: https://pickleballist.com/robots.txt https://forums.pickleballist.com/robots.txt Nothing in those files is blocking Google, you can check this for yourself using third party robots.txt scanners, for example this tool by ryte . Which confirms the …

User-agent: * Disallow: Delete the link to block in the disable file robots.txt

Just switched from private to public, blocked by robots.txt

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jord8on (Jordan) March 25, 2020, 6:58pm 8

Yes you are right that it has been “login_required” for many months. Hopefully we’ll get indexed soon!

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Just switched from private to public, blocked by robots.txt

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