Hari I'm using v.1.1.1 though. I tried sharing the site on Facebook and no forum description or social media image is appearing. I've set up everything except for the sitemap and registration to search engines. I'm thinking that the extension might not be working for any of the three reasons:

  1. I have to install the sitemap extension and register the site to search engines, first.
  2. I'm using an earlier version of Flarum
  3. It will take time before the SEO will take effect.

Any thoughts on this?

  • Hari replied to this.

      majbador I tried sharing the site on Facebook and no forum description or social media image is appearing

      Goto SEO extension and add social image, make sure you added description to forum. I will post screenshots tomorrow. Now replying to thes using mobile.

      Observe the health check page.

          Hari Thanks! This is what I did so far. Will check again tomorrow.

            a month later

            Thanks for this extension (good for facebook thumbnail)!

            Is there a plan to change this part in the future?

            This extension will also make sure that external links (to other domains) open in a new tab. Currently it is not possible to disable this setting.

            It can be problematic to be stuck with target="_blank" on every link, and to have to choose between this extension and target="_self" if people prefer it.

            Also, a little bug to report: it also opens internal link in a new tab if you write them without the root url (just what comes after the d/).

            2 months later

            Hari

            mine is not working after the upgrade to flarum 1.3.1.

            I checked the settings, everything seems in order.

            Any idea what might be the issue?

              a month later

              Is there a way to make it work with with the Blog extension?

                I fiddled around a bit and got to know my problem better.
                So I want to share a blog post on facebook, and when I do the image in the link is the image i put in in SEO settings.
                I want the image to be from the blog post. Any solution?

                12 days later

                Performance Issue

                Search engines will understand the discussions and are even able to show some relevant posts underneath the search results. When you have the extension 'best answer' installed and enabled on your forum, it will mark the discussion as 'answered' on the search results and redirect the user to that specific post. However, depending on your server settings, this can be heavier. It may cost some performance, so it depends on how fast your server is to enable this feature.

                Crawl all posts (it's slower on page refresh, but search results will be better)

                Any chance you could take a look into this?

                Our server is completely oversized but still throttles a lot if that is switched on. Better search results is a great but waiting more than 30sec for a discussion to open instead of 1-2sec is not just "some performance" loss.

                  What are "votes" in a Google snippet? I mean, where do they show up on the site - is it the likes of the first post or what?

                    Malaka Those are set using the 'Likes' extension for the post that is visible 🙂

                    typ1k Should already work! De SEO extension will use the blog image which is selected

                          2 months later

                          Thank you for this extension and for make the Internet better

                          24 days later

                          The function Opens external links in new tab does not work on the footer section.

                          2 months later

                          This is a bug.

                          [2022-12-20 08:41:05] flarum.ERROR: TypeError: V17Development\FlarumSeo\Formatter\FormatLinks::__invoke(): Argument #1 ($renderer) must be of type s9e\TextFormatter\Renderer, __PHP_Incomplete_Class given, called in /www/wwwroot/latife.me/vendor/flarum/core/src/Foundation/ContainerUtil.php on line 30 and defined in /www/wwwroot/latife.me/vendor/v17development/flarum-seo/src/Formatter/FormatLinks.php:56

                            Chihiro that error also happened to other Flarum users who did not use the SEO extension.

                            Try clearing the cache and verify Flarum is able to override/delete all files in the storage folder. It's possible some files are owned by the wrong filesystem user and that Flarum cannot fully clear the cache.

                                clarkwinkelmann Oh, I have tried to clear the cache, and there is no problem with permission configuration
                                The storage has been completely covered
                                Sometime, it suddenly appeared in my diary today.

                                  8 days later

                                  Is there any way to re-generate meta tags (for og:image and description). Someone edited and replaced JPG in 1st post but extension still taking logo as og:image.
                                  cache clear as admin didnt regenerate

                                    4 days later

                                    wbntff Hey, meta-tags are currently auto-generated whenever the page is loaded (they are currently not cached). So if an image was changed and it isn't shown, I think the extension might not recognize the image as an image (perhaps the URL does not match the regex).

                                    Currently it's not possible to select a custom static-image or description for a topic. However, I'm currently working on a 2.0 update that will include custom SEO-image, SEO-description and SEO-tags 🙂

                                    If you have any other feedback, let me know!

                                        7 days later

                                        Very bad seo for Yandex search
                                        More page have this description:
                                        Something went wrong while trying to load the full version of this site. Try hard-refreshing this page to fix the error.

                                        And extension do not created robots.txt and not change this file if create it manually... why need this options in ACP if it's not work?