Google Doesn't Find My Forum's Content

Well, I added another starting point, as shown below, and things are looking up. I found 57 instances of "Nabble" in the report, and the first search I did returned the correct result. But I had tried placing that link to the Nabble server on the home page and then indexing it with Freefind and that didn't work. Anyway, it is bed time and tomorrow is a busy day so I may not get back to this until tomorrow night. Cheers, Gary

Google Doesn't Find My Forum's Content

My forum has not yet been indexed. But, we are only 26 hours after the request, and on the Test forum it took 36 hours. Maybe in the morning....... I'm searching for "My 4-door diesel project has a hopeless case of what Gary would call scope creep." I'm placing it in quotes, as shown, and...

Google Doesn't Find My Forum's Content

...... My guess is it is Weebly but we can wait a bit longer for more data collection on the google search console Lastly there is a link on the bottom of your site with the old web address of the forum. it should be removed... Peter, Nabble Support

Google Doesn't Find My Forum's Content

Peter - I really do need the Bullnose Forum to be indexed by Google. And it is pretty sure that the problem is somehow linked to the re-directing since Google has indexed over 100 pages when crawling my little bitty Test Forum, which isn't re-directed. In other words, my forum isn't visible to the world's largest search engine, and I'm struggling to get the world to find it. So can we get some help on this, please?

Google Doesn't Find My Forum's Content

... searching, I still can't find a hit on my third test phrase of "Gary, if that makes you jealous, my sister's '83 I picked up for her for free has factory perfect floor pans and also all perfect factory rosewood trim and dash-pad."

Google Doesn't Find My Forum's Content

Greg! Good find! I wasn't aware of what robots.txt files do, but that makes sense. Here's a grab of the page from the Weebly editor, and there's nothing there but the header, pic, and embedded code. And here's what Google Search Console says: And I don't see anything in the header and footer code. So, how do I find it?

Google Doesn't Find My Forum's Content

Houston, we have a problem. Google Search Console shows that they've indexed 10% of the 170 pages they've found, with 127 having redirects. It looks like Google isn't buying the hack. And, there are 26 pages that are said to have a noindex tag on them. See the second screen grab. But all of...

Google Doesn't Find My Forum's Content

I'm happy to report that of the three test searches shown above, Google now finds the first and third on my forum. Which fits with what Franklin told me via email, that Google appears to be indexing about 100 pages per week. That's shown on the screen grab below. Hopefully this will continue...

Google Doesn't Find My Forum's Content

Time for an update. As shown below, Google's classic search console thinks it has indexed 391 pages, while Google's Beta search console say it has indexed 371 pages - both as of March 18th. And this kind of disparity has been constant throughout my monitoring of the indexing. Anyway, that's...

Google Doesn't Find My Forum's Content

Peter - I've done a lot of searching and I'm not able to find much in my forum via Google, in spite of them saying that they've indexed a bit less than half of the pages. So I'm about ready to remove the redirect and see how my users get along with that. But don't want to cause any problems with work that you or Franklin might be doing. Please advise if I should hold off.

Google Doesn't Find My Forum's Content

Greg - Thanks. I'm no SEO expert either, but I have been reading up on it in the book I bought. And I have much of the rest of the website's pages showing up fairly well in the searches. But, in the case of the content of the forum, Google searches show up nothing, regardless of how long it...

Google Doesn't Find My Forum's Content

... being found by Google's bots. I've read what I've found here in Support about Google searches, and the vast majority of that is to make it so that Google can't find them, which is the opposite of what I want. I did find this topic that discusses it, and the very last post explains how to ensure...