I’m not a CSS expert/coder - Is there any easy way for me to have a better caption for Google Search results - for example the site description (or similar) from the “About Page”, for my discourse forum/News Plugin. Here (below) is what it looks like right now - when I search on google for “rapamyc…

Backlinks isn’t that big thing. The most important thing looks to be how offered content of a site replys to personal history (search history, clicks). Meta Katiska is in top-5 search results in its niche. Backlinks are just another gateway to googlegot. But these are different things: what is ra…

[image] j127: If there is a way to insert a paragraph of custom text above the table in the bot view, then Google might show that instead of the table rows, Exactly - I think this is the type of simple solution that would solve the issue for everyone. What seems to be needed is an “alt” site…

Hey @BCHK :slight_smile: [image] Bcguy: Is it possible that ThePavillion’s News Plugin I use to make my site into a “blog” on the home page - causing problems for google? No. The news plugin will not affect the content your website serves to Google’s crawlers. [image] Bcguy: but this i…

Google is known to use the meta description completely at its own discretion. It’s not clear when and where they’ll use it, and for what search queries. and how you show up in SERP’s is also something that changes depending on how the algorithm is feeling. [Screen Shot 2022-05-10 at 10.15.30 PM]

[image] Angus McLeod: If you really wanted to lean into this approach, you could create a Discourse plugin which removes the structured topic list data that Discourse provides to search engines. This would make it much more likely that Google would show your site’s meta description. However, unl…

[image] Nader: Google is known to use the meta description completely at its own discretion. So frustrating… your site is about the same size / activity as mine - but you have the better SEO view… I think part of it might be the fact that you have discourse in a subdirectory… for me its the …

[image] Bcguy: but you have the better SEO view… I think part of it might be the fact that you have discourse in a subdirectory Perhaps but I have a long way to go =)

Your meta description is almost definitely too short. Try changing it to something that is 150+ characters long and that aligns with the searcher’s intent. (Google will truncate it if it goes much beyond that.) I posted some links on optimizing the meta description in my first post above. Then go t…

It happens the same to me at my site www.elforoviajero.com since 3 years ago. I tried changing the description a few times, reindex, write to Google, write here…and still I get this awful view when changing for my forum’s name. [Captura de pantalla 2022-05-11 a las 10.07.28]

I’m trying to underline the point we can’t manipulate Google, not easily anyway. This I showed earlier: [image] no meta-description, just three the newest topics This I got when I was using porn in cognito mode: [image] meta-description is there, but not t…

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stance455 (Nader) May 10, 2022, 7:46pm 25

Perhaps but I have a long way to go =)

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