Hi folks,
When i search for my site in google. I see the following.
Looking for advice on how to fix it with a description.
Many thanks in advance folks
Cheers
AI-generated summary
The user uncledavy sought advice on improving their site’s SEO, particularly the description shown in Google search results. Mittineague suggested checking the locale settings in Admin Settings to ensure the description appears in the correct language. Stranik recommended modifying the views-site/list/list.erb file to include proper title tags (H1-H6) and a concise description, aligning with search engine best practices. uncledavy confirmed the default ERB file was unchanged and suspected a sitemap plugin might be causing issues, as the site’s search result appearance improved after removing it correct. However, vinothkannans later clarified that the sitemap plugin likely wasn’t the root cause, suggesting that Google may need more time to index new sites properly vinothkannans. The user plans to reinstall the plugin to test further.
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.
Your Google site sees this.
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.
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.
Similar rekomandatsii there are other search engines. Since all the algorithms work in the title-h1-dependence, etc.
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
These are the setting in locale
Source looks ok to me
I read somewhere, that Discourse does not need any separate sitemap plugin. Is that true?
I have taken the sitemap.xml off and rebuilding the app as I write this.
@vinothkannans I would like you to do some root cause analysis here, can not have the sitemap plugin break sites, that is terrible.
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.
Thanks. I will install the plugin again.