# The effect of endless scrolling = Bad for Google / SEO
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-effect-of-endless-scrolling-bad-for-google-seo/13034
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [2월 24, 2014, 9:45오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-effect-of-endless-scrolling-bad-for-google-seo/13034 "2014-02-24T21:45:24Z")
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### Author:  [@katie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/katie)
#### Post date: [2월 24, 2014, 9:45오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-effect-of-endless-scrolling-bad-for-google-seo/13034/1 "2014-02-24T21:45:24Z")
Hi, I’ve been involved in SEO for several years since 2007 and been following Google and its changes every year with all the changes and algorithm they’ve brought like Penguin, Hummingbird, and Panda.
But has Discourse thought about the infinite scroll feature? which makes it hard for Google to crawl pages with such feature, hence it will affect your rank and most likely your traffic, if you tend to use discourse for a big community. How is Discourse team managing this when it comes to endless scrolling and sitemap ?
> **[Making Infinite Scrolling Websites More Search Friendly](http://www.esoftload.info/making-infinite-scrolling-websites-search-friendly)**
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> Apparently, infinite scrolling is the latest trend in the SEO market with webmaster incessantly developing infinite scrolling on their webpage. With popular social media sites like Pinterest, Tumblr, and Facebook embracing the infinite scrolling...
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [2월 24, 2014, 9:51오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-effect-of-endless-scrolling-bad-for-google-seo/13034/2 "2014-02-24T21:51:08Z")
This has been covered here:
> [@How public Discourse sites are indexed by search engines like Google](https://meta.discourse.org/t/will-posts-show-up-on-google/1184):
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> bookmark This reference explains how public Discourse sites work with search engines like Google and how the platform ensures content is properly indexed even as a JavaScript application. person_raising_hand Required user level: All users Search engine indexing of Discourse sites Discourse is built as a JavaScript application, but is specifically designed to ensure search engines can properly crawl and index all content on public sites. How Discourse supports search engine crawlers Wh…
Also check out:
> **[Adding Support for Search Engines to your Javascript Applications](https://eviltrout.com/blog/2013-06-19-adding-support-for-search-engines-to-your-javascript-applications/)**
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> Important Update (May 25, 2014): Google has started parsing and indexing Javascript. The approach of this article is to use
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### Author:  [@katie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/katie)
#### Post date: [2월 24, 2014, 10:23오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-effect-of-endless-scrolling-bad-for-google-seo/13034/3 "2014-02-24T22:23:37Z")
Thanks =) it discusses the topic but it doesn’t mention how Discourse will be optimized for Search Engine, especially Google. For instance, I don’t think Discourse has properly implemented schema tags? [Getting Started - schema.org](http://schema.org/docs/gs.html)
I see the use of permalink in every post, which is helpful but with infinite scroll and if a topic is having 500 replies in an ongoing conversation (that might be a problem for Google to crawl), i have that on my own forum using VB, even 2k replies. We have to close topics which reaches 2K.
Does Discourse comes with a built in sitemap generator? This might solve some SEO issues if implemented properly. Because a sitemap generator is only useful if implemented right, otherwise it is like making your forum completely naked to Google to see all the flows within it and discover duplicate replies, content, meta tags, meta descriptions etc if there is any.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2월 24, 2014, 10:24오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-effect-of-endless-scrolling-bad-for-google-seo/13034/4 "2014-02-24T22:24:22Z")