# Group page indexing

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-page-indexing/81923
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [March 1, 2018, 8:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-page-indexing/81923 "2018-03-01T20:35:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![Stranik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stranik/32/85638_2.png) [@Stranik](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stranik)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2018, 8:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-page-indexing/81923/1 "2018-03-01T20:35:24Z")

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Is it possible to index a group page?  
[https://meta.discourse.org/groups](https://meta.discourse.org/groups)

In the file

[https://meta.discourse.org/robots.txt](https://meta.discourse.org/robots.txt)

> **Summary**
>
> ```
> User-agent: *
> Disallow: /auth/cas
> Disallow: /auth/facebook/callback
> Disallow: /auth/twitter/callback
> Disallow: /auth/google/callback
> Disallow: /auth/yahoo/callback
> Disallow: /auth/github/callback
> Disallow: /auth/cas/callback
> Disallow: /assets/browser-update*.js
> Disallow: /users/
> Disallow: /u/
> Disallow: /badges/
> Disallow: /search
> Disallow: /search/
> Disallow: /tags
> Disallow: /tags/
> Disallow: /email/
> Disallow: /session
> Disallow: /session/
> Disallow: /admin
> Disallow: /admin/
> Disallow: /user-api-key
> Disallow: /user-api-key/
> Disallow: /*?api_key*
> Disallow: /*?*api_key*
> 
> ```

The page is not closed for indexing

As the search engine sees it

```
 </header>
 <div id="main-outlet" class="wrap">
        <!-- preload-content: -->
        empty
 
        <!-- :preload-content -->
        <footer>

```

Is that a mistake or is that supposed to be?

 ![2](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/c/4/c4eebd1ec2080d4776afdb19bf7d9bd9f3d80cb4.jpg)

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2018, 11:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-page-indexing/81923/2 "2018-03-01T23:50:49Z")

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This is a minor #Contribute > Bug but we have to decide first if we even want “groups” page to be google indexed?

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2018, 2:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-page-indexing/81923/3 "2018-03-02T02:36:16Z")

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I would say no, go ahead and add groups to default robots exclusion

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2018, 2:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-page-indexing/81923/4 "2018-03-02T02:38:55Z")

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Done here:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/e19ae6c55eb254809152e23c3ebd401bb05360ee](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/e19ae6c55eb254809152e23c3ebd401bb05360ee)

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2018, 2:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-page-indexing/81923/5 "2018-03-02T02:39:10Z")

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