How to get a Google Groups forum indexed?

Autotransfer.jetzt GmbH

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Jul 3, 2016, 5:00:45 AM7/3/16

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Hello everyone, I have a site running on Google App Engine with a forum based on Google Groups. Unfortunately, the posts of the forum don't get indexed by Google. How can I fix this? Many thanks, Torsten

Adam (Cloud Platform Support)

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Jul 3, 2016, 1:57:36 PM7/3/16

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There should be no problem with App Engine apps being indexed by Google search. Do you see any results when searching 'site:<yourdomain.com>' in Google? You may also want to use Webmaster Tools to check how Google crawls your app with 'Use Fetch as Google'.

Autotransfer.jetzt GmbH

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Jul 3, 2016, 1:58:44 PM7/3/16

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Unfortunately, my forum doesn't get indexed: http://www.autotransfer.jetzt/index.php/forum/

Adam (Cloud Platform Support)

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Jul 3, 2016, 2:47:08 PM7/3/16

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You're embedding the group inside an iframe, and unfortunately Google search does not support indexing content in frames. Sometimes it does work, but there's no guarantee that it will. If you want forum content that is also searchable on your site you'll need to research a solution that does not involve the use of frames.

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