How can i push my SEO for Google?

Yolo

I have installed the SEO plugin for a long time. I still get almost no results from my site when I search Google. We have a niche forum and it should actually find us under this keyword? The word is written at least 50 times a day and even if I set Google to "last 24 hours" we don't appear. do you have any tricks how we can do that?
Many Thanks

CyberGene

Yolo sitemap that is registered in the Google search console.

Yolo

CyberGene
Edit: ah ok i see! can i set up the sitemap on freeflarum anywhere?

SKevo

Yolo you should be able to use FoF Sitemap, which will generate it automatically for you

Yolo

SKevo we have activated but there is nothing to set up? are the default settings enough?

Hari

Yolo set the sitemap to file or runtime and you are good to go. submit the sitemap.xml URL on the google search console

SKevo

Since FreeFlarum doesn't have any cronjobs set up for extensions at the moment, the only option here seems to be runtime mode, I think

Yolo

SKevo the only option here seems to be runtime mode, I think

and how does this work? 🙂

SKevo

Yolo runtime mode is enabled by default upon enabling the extension, and it generates a new sitemap on each request:

For small forums, most likely on shared hosting environments, with discussions, users, tags and pages summed up being less than 10.000 items. The sitemap is generated on the fly at each request.

Yolo

SKevo oh ok.but that seems to work only moderately. we can't be found via any of the well-known search engines, although there are articles with unique keywords.
Anyway, thanks for all of this! freeflarum is a wonderful provider and we like it

Chope

I notice that each post is set to be indexed by Google, this is the default flarum meta tags codes.
Indexing every single post permanent link in a thread is a very bad idea, especially if those posts are thin which are obtainable in forums.

The best approach by many forum software is indexing each page, a page may contain 20 posts or more. With this Google will not have to index thin contents. Indexing thin contents is a very bad seo idea.
Indexing thread pages instead of posts is likely not obtainable in Flarum since there is no pagination.

SKevo

Yolo there are chances that robots haven't crawled your website yet. Have you submitted your forum's sitemap to major search engines, such as Google?