In this support discussion titled ‘How to Start a Google Crawl?’, Emilio_F_Castillo asks how to verify if Google has crawled their Discourse-hosted forum, where to view crawl reports, and how to initiate a crawl. Falco responds by directing them to Google Search Console tools: Googlebot Fetch to manually trigger crawls and Crawl Stats for general crawl data. Falco also shares a Google search example showing indexed results, suggesting the site is being crawled. When Emilio_F_Castillo tries the same for another Discourse site (community.roatan.online), they encounter a redirect error. Falco advises using https instead of http, which resolves the issue — confirmed by Emilio_F_Castillo. Finally, codinghorror emphasizes that Google Search Console (formerly Webmaster Tools) should be the primary resource for all Google-related queries. The thread concludes with the issue resolved and the community successfully indexed.
Its been a few days and I’ve not seen google crawling our forum. We have the main domain site map in google webmaster tool and have read on this forum that a site map for the sub domain is not needed. We current host with Discourse.
How can I tell if Google Crawled our site?
Where can i see a report with the results of the Crawl?
What, if anything, can I do to initiate the Crawl?
You can force a crawl at https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/googlebot-fetch and see general crawl stats at https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/crawl-stats.
Thank you very much. This is helpful.
And this search with 132 results looks ok for me.
I am trying to do this for another community I have with Discourse: https://community.roatan.online
Getting a “redirected” error and then I requested an indexing…is there anything else I should do?
http will indeed redirect, try https
ok, we’re in the clear. All good. Thank you.
Your first port of call for anything google related should be the Google Webmaster Tools. Google Search Console.
