I am not sure why Google isn’t indexing the content of our discourse community. Look at this page here: Welcome to the Appsmith Community | Appsmith Community Portal The title is fairly unique. I’d imagine, when I copy and paste the title in Google, the first link should be the URL above. Instead…

here is an extract from Google The indexing of your content by Google is determined by system algorithms that take into account user demand and quality checks. [image] In-Depth Guide to How Google Search Works | Google Search Central | ... Get an in-depth understanding of how Google…

[image] JammyDodger: I believe that’s a TL3 perk by default. :+1: my apologies, you right :+1:

@constantine It looks like Google is prefering pages on the sub-domain https://docs.appsmith.com over pages on https://community.appsmith.com Most search results are from docs.appsmith.com Google Search A shot in the dark: Googles preference for one sub-domain over the orther might be influenced …

Just an update folks, we self-hosted discourse and submitted the sitemap to search console and now our content is being indexed by google. So perhaps something is up with the cloud hosted version?

I am not sure this is related to sitemaps or cloud hosting. Meta is hosted on AWS which is a completely different place to where we host many of our other customers and we started seeing very uneven results for meta lately and quite a few sites across various hosting options. I have been trying to …

[image] sam: Google is giving us very little visibility of “why?” here Because Meta, meaning OPs here, doesn’t use ”why” as Google wants? I did some expriences and even the context stays same, using different sentences changes search results. As expected. And… personal search history is big …

[image] constantine: Just an update folks, we self-hosted discourse and submitted the sitemap to search console and now our content is being indexed by google. It’s the same thing I did, after an initial period of improvement then it returns to being ignored. After two months now even the ne…

[image] sam: figure out which pages are missing from Google and try to figure out a pattern. Check Google Search Console report “Index” → “Coverage” for the “missing” pages. This might not show you “why” but “what is going on”. Open “Index” → “Coverage” for your domain. Select "All subm…

My issue is, still, noindex-tag. Google is bypassing all aswers in topics because of noindex, but those things users are googling — and indexing covers just questions. Well, that can be fixed.

I also noticed that google, unlike bing, ignores the title of the discussion and I don’t understand why. This never happens with my other forum on SMF…

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How does one remove the noindex tag?

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