SEO Title Issue

callumhaynes97

I'm having issues using the Flarum SEO extension, most importantly 'indexing' pages of my forum which has lead to the Google Search Console bringing up errors that the homepage cannot be indexed.

The URL doesn't even appear in Google anymore and now the meta title appears as this: "core.lib.meta_titles.without_page_title".

If you search 'core.lib.meta_titles.without_page_title' into Google you'll also find several other forums powered by Flarum that have the same problem. My question is, why?

I haven't done anything differently, and before the website's meta title was showing up fine.

Has anyone else experienced this?

clarkwinkelmann

I don't think anyone has clearly identified why this happens but from previous reports I'm pretty sure it's just a Flarum cache issue, nothing to do with SEO extension.

The only cause I have personally identified is if you have a cron job or queue worker that executes after the cache was cleared but before any web page has been visited, which would generate an incomplete translation cache. But most of the impacted forums don't seem to be running either cron or queue so it's still a bit of a mystery...

If every time you enable or disable an extension or clear cache you visit the website to make sure it loads with all translations, there shouldn't be any opportunity for a search engine to browse a broken version of the forum.