# Why my forum can’t be displayed on google or bing search results?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-my-forum-can-t-be-displayed-on-google-or-bing-search-results/388555
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** seo
**Created:** [November 15, 2025, 5:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-my-forum-can-t-be-displayed-on-google-or-bing-search-results/388555 "2025-11-15T05:04:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Frankz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Frankz)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2025, 5:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-my-forum-can-t-be-displayed-on-google-or-bing-search-results/388555/1 "2025-11-15T05:04:57Z")
Hi, my whole website is a forum built by Disourse. I searched the domain of my website, both Google and Bing can not display my website domain. AI says perhaps some settings of crawlers on Discourse security block the google search. Is it right? And how can I make google search access my website?
Thanks,
Frank
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### Author:  [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2025, 5:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-my-forum-can-t-be-displayed-on-google-or-bing-search-results/388555/2 "2025-11-15T05:12:55Z")
Hi there, did you launch the forum recently? Is there enough high-quality content? IIRC that’s a key factor in ensuring your pages are indexed by search engines.
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### Author:  [@Frankz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Frankz)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2025, 5:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-my-forum-can-t-be-displayed-on-google-or-bing-search-results/388555/3 "2025-11-15T05:33:58Z")
Yes, I uploaded the website just for a few weeks, but when I built other websites with Wordpress, google search would display the domain almost at once. Is it really I don’t need to change some settings to make google search find my website?
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### Author:  [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2025, 5:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-my-forum-can-t-be-displayed-on-google-or-bing-search-results/388555/4 "2025-11-15T05:41:38Z")
Did you change `whitelisted crawler user agents` or `blacklisted crawler user agents`?
Did you add your site to Google Search Console?
You may also want to see:
> [@Why isn't Google Indexing Discourse? SEO concerns](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-isnt-google-indexing-discourse-seo-concerns/218098):
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> I am not sure why Google isn’t indexing the content of our discourse community. Look at this page here: [Welcome to the Appsmith Community | Appsmith Community Portal](https://community.appsmith.com/t/how-do-i-rewrite-my-entire-frontend-with-appsmith/555) The title is fairly unique. I’d imagine, when I copy and paste the title in Google, the first link should be the URL above. Instead what I get is this: Not only is it not the first link, it doesn’t show up at all. What am I doing wrong?
There’s a lot of helpful stuff in there.
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2025, 7:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-my-forum-can-t-be-displayed-on-google-or-bing-search-results/388555/5 "2025-11-24T19:11:44Z")
@Frankz were you able to figure this out? Is your site showing up in internet searches now? I think Nate’s suggestions are correct. It takes a while for search engines to notice a new site. Do check your settings!
If this is a site hosted by us, reach out to [team@discourse.org](mailto:team@discourse.org) and our support team can help you verify your settings are correct. The defaults should be fine.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2025, 8:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-my-forum-can-t-be-displayed-on-google-or-bing-search-results/388555/6 "2025-11-24T20:46:48Z")
Possibly also worth double-checking `Allow index in robots TXT` is still enabled as well.
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### Author:  [@Frankz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Frankz)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2025, 2:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-my-forum-can-t-be-displayed-on-google-or-bing-search-results/388555/7 "2025-11-25T02:34:52Z")
My website is hosted on Discourse Forum. And where is the setting of Allow index in robot TXT?
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2025, 2:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-my-forum-can-t-be-displayed-on-google-or-bing-search-results/388555/8 "2025-11-25T02:43:10Z")
Hi Frankz! On your site, go to Admin, then select “All site settings” on the sidebar, then search for “allow index”. You will see the setting then. Is it selected as it should be?
After this if you still have trouble please write to [team@discourse.org](mailto:team@discourse.org). Our support team will happily help you.
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### Author:  [@Frankz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Frankz)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2025, 3:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-my-forum-can-t-be-displayed-on-google-or-bing-search-results/388555/9 "2025-11-25T03:00:31Z")
I tried to add www. before my domain name, then I can see my website on google search results. Thanks, Frank
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2025, 2:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-my-forum-can-t-be-displayed-on-google-or-bing-search-results/388555/10 "2025-11-25T14:50:08Z")
Nice! The domain name for your forum also contains some common words, so I am not surprised google didn’t recognize it when you put it by itself. You can also put `https://` in front of it to make sure google recognizes it as a website URL. I also searched for a few topic titles and see that your forum does appear at the top of search results, so I think you are in good shape here. 👍
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2025, 2:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-my-forum-can-t-be-displayed-on-google-or-bing-search-results/388555/11 "2025-11-25T14:50:28Z")
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### Author:  [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2025, 7:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-my-forum-can-t-be-displayed-on-google-or-bing-search-results/388555/12 "2025-11-25T19:42:28Z")
> [@Frankz](#):
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> I searched the domain of my website, both Google and Bing can not display my website domain.
Search using: `site:hostname`, e.g. `site:meta.discourse.org`
That’ll show you what it has indexed for your site.