# How does discourse seo work?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-discourse-seo-work/260693
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** seo
**Created:** [April 5, 2023, 5:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-discourse-seo-work/260693 "2023-04-05T17:54:35Z")
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### Author:  [@Diyorki](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Diyorki)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2023, 5:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-discourse-seo-work/260693/1 "2023-04-05T17:54:35Z")
How does discourse seo work? Is it integrated with SEO? Or do I need to install seo plugin? When I search for the topic you opened in discourse on Google, do the words in the topic appear or does the topic title appear?
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### Author:  [@Bas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bas)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2023, 6:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-discourse-seo-work/260693/2 "2023-04-05T18:44:16Z")
It [works pretty well](https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=How+does+discourse+seo+work%3F&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8) 🙂
A lot is explained in the SEO guides on our blog:
> **[8 Tips to Improve Your Community’s SEO](https://blog.discourse.org/2021/10/forum-seo/)**
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> Helping people find your community takes time and patience. It also takes a little knowledge about search engines, how they work, and how people locate your community through them. In this article, we’re going to demystify the basics of SEO and how...
> **[Handling SEO for Discourse Communities](https://blog.discourse.org/2021/11/discourse-forum-seo/)**
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> If you are concerned about how your community is performing in search engine results (SEO), there are a number of questions to keep in mind when looking to optimize your community software of choice. We frequently get asked questions in our support...