# Why isn't Google Indexing Discourse? SEO concerns **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-isnt-google-indexing-discourse-seo-concerns/218098 **Category:** Support **Tags:** seo **Created:** [February 14, 2022, 8:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-isnt-google-indexing-discourse-seo-concerns/218098 "2022-02-14T08:56:41Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![IAmGav](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/iamgav/32/235598_2.png) [@IAmGav](https://meta.discourse.org/u/IAmGav) #### Post date: [February 14, 2022, 9:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-isnt-google-indexing-discourse-seo-concerns/218098/2 "2022-02-14T09:10:38Z")
There could be soooooo many reason for this. Is the googlebot actually crawls your site ? check [mysite.com/admin/reports/web\_crawlers](http://mysite.com/admin/reports/web_crawlers) Is the googlebot blocked or rate limited? check [mysite.com/admin/site\_settings/category/security?filter=crawler%20user%20agents](http://mysite.com/admin/site_settings/category/security?filter=crawler%20user%20agents) Did you add your site to [Google Search Console](https://search.google.com/search-console/about) ? Self-hosted people can even install the following plug-in to help > [@Discourse Sitemap](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-sitemap/40348): > > discourse2Summary Discourse Sitemap adds a sitemap.xml to your Discourse instanceopen_bookInstall Guide This plugin is bundled with Discourse core. There is no need to install the plugin separately. Features There has been [some](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-create-xml-sitemap-is-there-any-plugin/33654) [discussion](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sitemap-xml-for-google-webmaster/9054/9) over the need of a sitemap, and I think Discourse doesn’t really need one, although I do believe that a forum might be indexed a bit faster with one. Anyway, we created this plugin because of a customer that needed a sitemap for Google N… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-isnt-google-indexing-discourse-seo-concerns/218098)._