probiner Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 (edited) I was looking for a thread here I participated in and google searched for probiner smooth site:https://forums.odforce.net/ to quickly return it but that didn't work, no results found. I tried the same in Duckduckgo, Bing, Yandex and they returned results just fine. Sorry if this is already known, but seems to affect the usability and discoverability of this helpful forum, I guess. Cheers prb PS: Sorry I didn't put this in the Feedback subforum. Edited January 18, 2023 by probiner 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenolis Posted March 26, 2023 Share Posted March 26, 2023 @Marc pls fix :/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 As a majority shareholder in google, I'll get them to bow to my will. One sec. . . . . . . No.. I'm told I'm not a majority shareholder. What's weird is that used to work. I'll snoop around and see what the deal is. 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 Update: The site is being indexed and not blocked by anything we're doing. I'm rebuilding the sitemap to see if that helps... but outside of that I'm not sure what's going on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenolis Posted March 30, 2023 Share Posted March 30, 2023 Please let me know if there's anything in particular I can do to boost SEO for odforce posts/replies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
probiner Posted April 11, 2023 Author Share Posted April 11, 2023 (edited) On 3/28/2023 at 10:15 PM, Marc said: Update: The site is being indexed and not blocked by anything we're doing. I'm rebuilding the sitemap to see if that helps... but outside of that I'm not sure what's going on. We could do a "post your favourite odforce thread" thing on discord to try to boost it if you think it helps I think there are a lot of hidden gems here that people mostly using new community platforms are not aware of! Edited April 12, 2023 by probiner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evanrudefx Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 Pretty much anything from this site is excluded from google. did anyone figure out what happened? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted July 16, 2023 Share Posted July 16, 2023 We upgraded the forum software.... and apparently something changed, but I can't seem to find anything to justify that change. I'll happily hand this off to any experts, but I can't find it sadly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fencer Posted July 16, 2023 Share Posted July 16, 2023 (edited) 30 minutes ago, Marc said: We upgraded the forum software.... and apparently something changed, but I can't seem to find anything to justify that change. I'll happily hand this off to any experts, but I can't find it sadly. Hey, I have checked page code, no issue with blocking via "meta" tag but robots.txt shows this: User-agent: * Crawl-delay: 10 User-agent: magpie-crawler Disallow: / And as I see it completely blocks all search bots to entire directory of the site. If the idea was to block only "magpie-crawler", need to remove first line "User-agent: *" as I remember how it works. You can see how robots.txt works for google here: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/robots/create-robots-txt?hl=en&visit_id=637877245769134424-4002006832&rd=1 https://university.webflow.com/lesson/disable-search-engine-indexing Edited July 16, 2023 by fencer 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 Weird, that's the one that's been there for years. But it's possible something ran afoul of the new software. I've updated the robots.txt to the new specs as per the forum software. There aren't any more User-agent disallow, so let's hope it fixes the problem. Thanks Fencer, that's really helpful. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fencer Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted August 11, 2023 Share Posted August 11, 2023 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evanrudefx Posted September 7, 2023 Share Posted September 7, 2023 seems to be working now!!!! Thanks : ) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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