Flarum SEO

This Flarum extension will add SEO tags to your Flarum forum site for search engines and social media. It will make sure your site will be visible correctly by adding page identical title and description using the discussion content and title.

If you have any feedback, let me know! Do you experience problems? You can report issues on the Flarum Forum or on GitHub.

Latest update: December 17, 2024 - Version v2.0.4

Previous updates:

Installation

If you like to install this extension, run the following command:

composer require v17development/flarum-seo

Updating

Run the following command on your server to update the plugin

composer update v17development/flarum-seo

Extending & using in your own extension

You can use functionalities from this extension in your own extension. For more information, check this knowledge base article.

Customizable

New in version 2.0 is the Seo Meta object, customizable for each object so you are able to manage to how you like it. Give discussions a custom description. Read more about how that works here.

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Issues & bugs

Note for everyone reporting issues in this topic:

Your issues might get lost in this topic after more replies and we forget about it. When working on an update of our extensions, we always check the GitHub issue list, not this topic.

This preferation might be different per extension developer, but we at V17 prefer GitHub issues as our issue tracker.

Adding SEO tags to the following pages:

• Home page
• Tags page (if extension is enabled)
• Discussion page
• User profile
• Pages page (if extension is enabled)

Works with

This extension will work with the following extensions enabled or disabled. All extensions are not required, but it will work together if they are installed and enabled:

• Flarum likes from Flarum flarum/likes
• Flarum tags from Flarum flarum/tags
• Selected Post Best answer from FriendsOfFlarum https://discuss.flarum.org/d/21894-friendsofflarum-best-answer
• Sitemap from FriendsOfFlarum https://discuss.flarum.org/d/14941-fof-sitemap
• Pages from FriendsOfFlarum https://discuss.flarum.org/d/18301-friendsofflarum-pages

How do the results look like in Google?

Potential it could look like this, after Google reindex your site. This could take a while before Google or any other crawler does this. The following screenshots are in Dutch, but you get the concept:

How long will changes take effect?

It depends. Recrawling can take a few days, up to a few weeks until most of your results are updated. Use the FriendsOfFlarum Sitemap to let Google know what discussions there are on your forum. You may speed it up by manually update a search result Google via the Google Search Console, but that is no gurantee that the search result will be updated directly.

Read more about how you can let Google recrawl your site

Using following SEO & share methods:

The extension will use the following SEO & share methods:

• Default HTML meta tags:

  • application-name
  • description
  • keywords
  • language

• Adds robots.txt to your forum, when Sitemap extension of FriendsOfFlarum is enabled, the link to your sitemap.xml will appear in the robots.txt

• The Open Graph protocol (for social media, http://ogp.me):

  • og:type
  • og:title
  • og:description
  • og:url
  • article:published_time
  • article:updated_time

• Schema.org SEO standards (most used by Search engines)

  • WebPage https://schema.org/WebPage
  • QAPage (default) https://schema.org/QAPage
  • DiscussionForumPosting (when Question-Answer SEO results are disabled) https://schema.org/DiscussionForumPosting
  • CollectionPage https://schema.org/CollectionPage
  • ProfilePage https://schema.org/ProfilePage

• Sets page image to social media if set. When the first post contains an image, it will be used instead.

• Adds a nofollow & dofollow link management system

• Opens external links in new tab

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Zeokat Yeah, I agree, but that is why I've created this extension haha
Hopefully for you that you can upgrade to Beta 8 soon!

luceos Thank you for your support and feedback the past few weeks! I appreciate that very much

Shahiem Thanks!

MikeJones If you haven't that answer plugin installed, my plugin simply won't pick a post as 'answer'. So Google just shows the posts without marking it as solved. I do not know yet if that affects the search results. Time will say

It depends per discussion how it will effect the loadspeed of the webpage. It loads all posts at once and then makes an array and serves it as json. But there is no caching in that part yet, so it will load the posts again and again per page load. So that part is not perfect yet. I need to figure out what will be the best way to serve it.

Notice: If you navigate through javascript to discussions, that will not happen as it is using the API. The trigger is set on the https://www.forum.com/d/ url. So it will only be a problem when people are going to that specific page from outside.