Flarum SEO

mafesa

shamsudeen but it lacks SEO friendly

I disagree. This extension, used in conjunction with a sitemap, is excellent for SEO.
Your problem is definitely the content of the forum/discussion; that's why Google isn't indexing it.

I also have a XenForo forum, and it's often slower to index, but again, there are too many variables for search engine indexing and content is the most important thing.
You can't expect your forum to be indexed immediately by installing an SEO extension or changing software.

shamsudeen

mafesa okay. that could be the issue. swtiching software from one to another makes waiting period longer than expected. I think it will take to index 90 days or so..

mafesa

@JasperVriends After two weeks of installing the new version 2.0.8 I had a drastic drop in Google Search Console Q&A.
Best Answer isn't installed and Google previously reported the one with the most likes as the best reply.
Now I only see the thread title in the results, the number of answers and the best one have disappeared.
Did you change anything that changed how the extension worked?
It seems like it is ignoring this active setting "Index all posts in a discussion".

Thanks

KBExit

mafesa Google has made drastic changes to their search index algorithm. I've seen negative mentions eveywhere. I think it would have to do more so with that vs. the extension itself.

smith

Hello! I'm having an issue where the SEO extension uses the default forum description on all discussion pages.

I have already tried:

Clearing the Flarum cache (php flarum cache:clear).
Clearing my browser cache and testing in incognito mode.
Creating a new test discussion.
Checking my config.php for the correct URL.

Flarum core: 1.8.11
PHP version: 8.0.30
MySQL version: 12.0.2-MariaDB-ubu2404
Loaded extensions: Core, date, libxml, pcre, zlib, filter, hash, json, readline, Reflection, SPL, session, ctype, curl, dom, fileinfo, gd, gmp, iconv, intl, mbstring, openssl, PDO, standard, tokenizer, xmlwriter, zip, exif, mysqlnd, Phar, pdo_mysql, apcu, Zend OPcache
+------------------------------+---------+--------+
| Flarum Extensions            |         |        |
+------------------------------+---------+--------+
| ID                           | Version | Commit |
+------------------------------+---------+--------+
| flarum-tags                  | v1.8.4  |        |
| v17development-seo           | v2.0.9  |        |
| fof-pages                    | 1.0.8   |        |
| ianm-no-meta-title           | 1.1.0   |        |
| fof-subscribed               | 1.1.4   |        |
| fof-sitemap                  | 2.4.1   |        |
| fof-share-social             | 1.2.0   |        |
| fof-nightmode                | 1.6.0   |        |
| fof-default-user-preferences | 1.2.1   |        |
| flarum-sticky                | v1.8.2  |        |
| flarum-statistics            | v1.8.1  |        |
| flarum-mentions              | v1.8.5  |        |
| flarum-markdown              | v1.8.1  |        |
| flarum-likes                 | v1.8.1  |        |
| flarum-lang-ukrainian        | v1.53.3 |        |
| flarum-lang-english          | v1.8.0  |        |
| flarum-emoji                 | v1.8.1  |        |
| flarum-bbcode                | v1.8.0  |        |
| aurorum-better-iframe        | v2.0.2  |        |
+------------------------------+---------+--------+
Base URL: https://myforumlink.....
Installation path: /flarum/app
Queue driver: sync
Session driver: file
Scheduler status: Active
Mail driver: smtp
Debug mode: off

What could be the problem?
Thank you for your help!

Mayhem

I have the FoF Best Answer plugin installed and it does not show and Q/A schema in the Google schema checker. All questions still show up as DiscussionForumPosting.

Does anyone have a solution for this issue?

mafesa

smith now I understand what you meant... meta description!
Yes, I'm having the same problem with the latest versions, it seems like a bug.

<meta name="description" content= does not update and always contains the forum description.

mafesa

I did some tests...

v2.0.7 -> meta name="description" - OK
v2.0.8 -> meta name="description" - KO
v2.0.9 -> meta name="description" - KO

This could also explain the problem described here .

Mayhem Try do downgrade to v2.0.7 version.

@JasperVriends can you do a check?
Thanks

Mayhem

mafesa I still have the same issue with 2.0.7

mafesa

Mayhem I think yours is another issue... maybe you use a secondary tag?
v17development/flarum-seo108

smith

mafesa v2.0.7 -> meta name="description" - OK

Thank you so much! Downgrading to v2.0.7 worked perfectly. That solved my problem, I really appreciate your help!

Mayhem

@mafesa

I finally got the Q&A schema working with the latest v2.0.9

Under "Post Crawl Settings", I never had the "Index all posts in a discussion" option enabled. After enabling it, everything is working great.

Tutrix

Is there a way to set the pages from Pages by FriendsOfFlarum extension to “noindex, nofollow”?

Impulsive5

I updated the seo setting for many discussions to nofollow, cleared cache, but still have this in the header.

<meta name="robots" content="index, follow">

Any ideas?

Edit: I installed the best answer extension even though we have non need for best answers. Now it is working.

GeorgP

Impulsive5 I installed the best answer extension even though we have non need for best answers. Now it is working.

As someone already wrote, there are also other problems with version 2.0.9.
Either install best answer extension or go back to v2.0.7.

Tutrix

Tutrix Is there a way to set the pages from Pages by FriendsOfFlarum extension to “noindex, nofollow”?

Found a way, I edited the pages directly in the database to “noindex, nofollow.” 😉

mafesa

@davetodave178 Can you please check these issues?

Thanks

Capybara

I’ve sent an email to V17 asking whether this plugin will be updated for Flarum 2.x, since the author doesn’t seem to check this place 👀

KBExit

Capybara beat me to it. It was on my agenda for this Friday lol. I do wonder if the other extensions and that support ticket extension are also going to be updated. It's commercial, but since being MIA for so long, I fear they may be completely out of the loop on everything.

JasperVriends

Hi Capybara KBExit ! We unfortunately did not receive your email, but I noticed your comment.

Just so you know: we're still working on Flarum and still have clients using Flarum. So we will definitely update most of our extensions whenever Flarum reaches the final few beta's for 2.0. But it has taken some time to reach that state so we're waiting a bit on the sideline before taking effort 🙂

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