SEO issue with Google results

[ElForoViajero]

Hi there,

I have been developing my travel community elforoviajero.com with Discourse for a while, and it is gradually gaining traction.

I have the blog-style component, as one of my intended monetization strategies is to add interesting travel content and monetize it with affiliate links, for example in this topic.

However, I have noticed that even though these pages are indexed by Google, they have very poor SEO rankings in many different SEO tools like this one or [this one](Another report here:) just to name a few.

It seems like H1 and H2 are a problem. What would be a good approach to improve the SEO? Should I write the articles and include the H1 and H2 tags within them?

Also, it seems like the meta description is not correct either, as it takes the first sentences, or maybe I am doing it wrong.

Even when I search on Google “Las mejores maletas de cabina el foro viajero” (best travelling cabin bags), my site does not appear in the results, but my MAIN competitor does. The only way to see the results is to use “las mejores maletas de cabina elforoviajero.com” in the query, and even like this, sometimes the articles do not show up.

I do not know if I am doing something wrong because I checked the article before, and from an SEO point of view, it seemed correct.

Thanks,

[ElForoViajero]

Hi…I’m still facing this issue and I found some more information:

When you search in google inside a domain it gives you correct results for my forum for example with the term “viajes”

However, using the same restricted domain search with the same exact words as the topic title,which should show the topic, that topic doesn’t appear. It only appears the Category Blog but not the topic.

Even the topic here at discourse will appear before the topic.

The only way to find the topic in google is to directly type the URL in the search bar but then as you can see google doesn’t detect the topic title, just the “number”

I think there’s something wrong here and I’m absolutely lost on how to solve it but I think this could be a problem, maybe of the “Blog Style theme component” or just the way discourse handles SEO?

[Rodrigo_Farcas]

Hey, I think we are experimenting the same issue at https://comunidad.universitarios.cl/

Have you found any workaround for this?

We’re happy to share ideas.