Hey all, Previously we used to get a good number of discussions from our community forum when we search for some topics on Google. But recently, we noticed that we don’t see any results from the community in the search results. We’ve done some re-categorization and closed a bunch of discussions rec…

[image] dunebuggie: [image] simon: Have you made any changes to your Discourse site’s whitelisted crawler user agents or blacklisted crawler user agents site settings? Don’t think so. whitelisted crawler user agents WARNING! SETTING THIS WILL DISALLOW ALL CRAWLERS NOT LISTED HERE! T…

What do you see if you click on the “Learn why” link that’s displayed at the bottom of the Google search result? Have you made any changes to your Discourse site’s whitelisted crawler user agents or blacklisted crawler user agents site settings?

You don’t have to do anything in our years of experience. However, if your site is not well linked on the web it may take a while. See the Google Webmaster Tools for your domain.

[image] simon: What do you see if you click on the “Learn why” link that’s displayed at the bottom of the Google search result? I’m taken to this page on Google Support. [image] simon: Have you made any changes to your Discourse site’s whitelisted crawler user agents or blacklisted crawl…

Thanks, Jeff. I’m getting the team to look into Google Webmaster Tools. Most likely a Google issue because we really haven’t changed anything on Discourse, other than closing threads and recategorization.

I don’t know about sitemaps but I’ll quote Discourse’s team on this: [image] Why standard Plan don't have Sitemap ؟ the sitemap plugin isn’t necessary for sites to be indexed by Google as Discourse is already structured to allow crawlers to index it easily. But for large sites, the plugin can ma…

Pourquoi Google ne parcourt-il pas mon site ?

Soutien

Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin) Avril 15, 2020, 9:52 8

Je ne sais pas trop pour les sitemaps, mais je cite l’équipe de Discourse à ce sujet :

Sujet		Réponses	Vues
Issues Google Search Console is throwing at me for wrong discourse structure (or some for wrong administration of my site) Support	18	236	Décembre 18, 2024
SEO - Pages crawled but not Indexed Support seo	4	179	Septembre 23, 2025
Why isn't Google Indexing Discourse? SEO concerns Support seo	31	5463	Juin 1, 2024
Google Not Indexing Discourse Forum – Sitemap Not Approved Support seo	4	275	Avril 1, 2025
Why my forum can’t be displayed on google or bing search results? Support seo	11	230	Novembre 25, 2025

Pourquoi Google ne parcourt-il pas mon site ?

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