# How to fix my SEO?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-fix-my-seo/74839
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** seo
**Created:** [26.Ноябрь.2017 18:30:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-fix-my-seo/74839 "2017-11-26T18:30:20Z")
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### Author: ![uncledavy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/uncledavy/32/82647_2.png) [@uncledavy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/uncledavy)
#### Post date: [26.Ноябрь.2017 18:30:21 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-fix-my-seo/74839/1 "2017-11-26T18:30:21Z")

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Hi folks,

When i search for my site in google. I see the following.

 ![Screenshot_2017-11-26-23-56-56](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/f/f/ffeb1888412695150bfaa7496706e3733026c6ac.png)

Looking for advice on how to fix it with a description.

Many thanks in advance folks

Cheers

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### Author: ![Mittineague](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mittineague/32/114259_2.png) [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [26.Ноябрь.2017 18:35:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-fix-my-seo/74839/2 "2017-11-26T18:35:13Z")

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If you go to your Admin Settings you should be able to find “locale”.

If you change that from English to your preferred language the description should then be in that language in search results.

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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: [26.Ноябрь.2017 18:42:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-fix-my-seo/74839/3 "2017-11-26T18:42:03Z")

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Your Google site sees [this](https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:IhHQVsvgW4cJ:https://putput.in/+&cd=1&hl=ru&ct=clnk).

You can redefine the file:

`views-site/list/list.erb`

Add there what Google requires  
Namely the title page (h1) and a small text.  
Note that a similar page and tex header should be similar to another version of the site. Because Google compares the options.

Any page should have a title.

[For example](https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fF1gtdRKONwJ:https://toxu.ru/+&cd=1&hl=ru&ct=clnk)

> Design of titles inside the text, tags H1 - H6  
> Correct layout of titles inside the text helps a user to understand faster what is on the page, i.e. saves time. In addition to that, it helps Yandex robot to figure out the document structure as well. Because of that, you should highlight the titles with these tags according to the document structure.

[_(c) source_](https://yandex.com/support/webmaster/recommendations/presentation.html)

Similar rekomandatsii there are other search engines. Since all the algorithms work in the title-h1-dependence, etc.

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### Author: ![uncledavy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/uncledavy/32/82647_2.png) [@uncledavy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/uncledavy)
#### Post date: [26.Ноябрь.2017 19:55:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-fix-my-seo/74839/4 "2017-11-26T19:55:53Z")

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THe erb was ok. All default. I had installed a sitemap plugin. Not sure if that is the issue.

[https://forum.putput.in/sitemap.xml](https://forum.putput.in/sitemap.xml)

These are the setting in locale

 ![locale](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/9/293d399223df5254af3d25e790f9f0f99206a031.PNG)

Source looks ok to me

 ![source](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/4/84b12e243b441a290839e17542e81cba5e39423c.PNG)

I read somewhere, that Discourse does not need any separate sitemap plugin. Is that true?

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### Author: ![uncledavy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/uncledavy/32/82647_2.png) [@uncledavy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/uncledavy)
#### Post date: [26.Ноябрь.2017 19:59:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-fix-my-seo/74839/5 "2017-11-26T19:59:17Z")

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I have taken the sitemap.xml off and rebuilding the app as I write this.

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### Author: ![uncledavy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/uncledavy/32/82647_2.png) [@uncledavy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/uncledavy)
#### Post date: [26.Ноябрь.2017 20:56:54 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-fix-my-seo/74839/6 "2017-11-26T20:56:54Z")

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It was that sitemap plugin giving issues. After I took it off. I made google crawl the site and now, it looks better.

 ![correct](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/0/70af9ac3bcb6d590a0b05b3b2b921a5aa9ee4766.PNG)  
Thanks all for your advice.  
Cheers

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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: [26.Ноябрь.2017 22:06:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-fix-my-seo/74839/7 "2017-11-26T22:06:20Z")

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> [@uncledavy](#):
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> It was that sitemap plugin giving issues.

@vinothkannans I would like you to do some root cause analysis here, can not have the sitemap plugin break sites, that is terrible.

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### Author: ![vinothkannans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/vinothkannans/32/86465_2.png) [@vinothkannans](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vinothkannans)
#### Post date: [27.Ноябрь.2017 02:07:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-fix-my-seo/74839/10 "2017-11-27T02:07:23Z")

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Hey @uncledavy, I don’t think it is problem of sitemap or any other. I am able to see other websites which are using sitemap feature are rendering fine. Maybe it looks like that because of your website is new (or you only submitted your website to Google very recently). Normally Google will take some time to render the search results properly for new websites.

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### Author: ![uncledavy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/uncledavy/32/82647_2.png) [@uncledavy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/uncledavy)
#### Post date: [27.Ноябрь.2017 19:37:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-fix-my-seo/74839/11 "2017-11-27T19:37:05Z")

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Thanks. I will install the plugin again.

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#### Post date: [24.Январь.2020 08:34:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-fix-my-seo/74839/12 "2020-01-24T08:34:12Z")

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