Can we have a conversation about SEO?

[david (David Taylor)]

Please try and keep each idea in its own topic - it’s very hard to manage ‘kitchen sink’ topics like this.

Here are a few topics which provide some context on the items you mentioned:

Googlebot is getting non-javascript version of the site

So I just noticed that Discourse serves a non-JS version of the site to Google… I’ve been using JS to set the sites title, meta description, canonical, etc and seems google is getting really good at rendering client-side javascript ( I’m referring to my regular site, not discourse ) Is there a way to disable this and not give google bot a specific version? …Also, discourse has a do-follow link there for itself “Powered by Discourse.” - Is there anything I can do about that? Edit 1 : I shoul…

Suggested Topics not shown to web spiders

I was looking at the Topic Page on Lynx Text Browser to simulate how Google bot is viewing this page and what all links Google bot finds for crawling and interlinking purpose. Please look at the details below: Issue: Suggested Topics links are not getting rendered in text browser. Steps: Take any discourse url, I took a url from try.discourse.org http://try.discourse.org/t/poll-whats-your-preferred-mobile-os/284 When we access it in any web browser, suggested topic are there: [image] …

Google Cache / Google Crawling does not include Suggested Topics

Hi all, Long time lurker and fan of Discourse. Yes, a huge fan so before I go down the SEO path I want to be clear this is not a criticism more of a suggestion. I have searched for this topic but could not find it discuss previously. I noticed that when Google caches a thread that only parts of the thread are cached with that being the main content. If you look at the cache of this URL: https://community.coinbase.com/t/how-can-i-get-a-profit-and-loss-statement-showing-my-gains-over-the-past-2…

Search Engine / No JavaScript version missing links

When browsing a discourse site (meta.discourse.org) without JavaScript in the same way as it is presented to Googlebot several links are missing. Links to user profiles [image] Link to categories list from homepage Links to users activity from users page [image] Links to related topics at the bottom of a topic. Any actual activity on users activity/topics page: Profile - sam - Discourse Meta (yes this looks the same as the users page because it is, no different content.) [image] EDIT: T…