CE SEO - Users Profiles (About Me) pages not yet indexed by Google?
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sSs
Sep 21, 2010, 7:21:41 PM9/21/10
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Hi,
Has anybody indexed the CommunityEngine (CE) user profile pages
successfully in Google? After almost a year Google hasn't yet indexed
those pages of my users' "About Me" details. I noticed that CE Blogs
on my website has been indexed but not the Profile pages for
individual users.
Can somebody please help me how to do that? Is it a configuration
setting I need to change for that page in CE?
I think that will significantly improve the SEO of my website. I
thought that's a useful information for anybody adopting CE.
Thanks,
sSs
Has anybody indexed the CommunityEngine (CE) user profile pages
successfully in Google? After almost a year Google hasn't yet indexed
those pages of my users' "About Me" details. I noticed that CE Blogs
on my website has been indexed but not the Profile pages for
individual users.
Can somebody please help me how to do that? Is it a configuration
setting I need to change for that page in CE?
I think that will significantly improve the SEO of my website. I
thought that's a useful information for anybody adopting CE.
Thanks,
sSs
Barry Paul
Sep 21, 2010, 8:03:29 PM9/21/10
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Yes, Google is indexing our profile pages. A couple of suggestions:
1. Make sure your user profiles are public
2. Check your sitemap.xml contains user profiles and submit it to
Also, do you use Googles Webmaster tools? They can be very useful for
debugging SEO problems.
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
Hope that helps!
Cheers,
--
Barry
sSs
Sep 22, 2010, 6:48:57 PM9/22/10
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Hmmm, my profiles are not public. By public you mean anyone visiting
my website can see those profiles and they do NOT have to create their
own profile and log in, right?
Yeah, I use Google Webmaster tools.
Thanks Barry,
sSs
my website can see those profiles and they do NOT have to create their
own profile and log in, right?
Yeah, I use Google Webmaster tools.
Thanks Barry,
sSs
Barry Paul
Sep 23, 2010, 3:14:36 PM9/23/10
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That is your problem then. If your user profiles are private then they
are hidden from non community members. This includes the Google web
crawler!
Otherwise you would have private profiles appearing in Google searches
- not a good thing...
Cheers,
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BP
sSs
Sep 24, 2010, 10:42:37 AM9/24/10
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Yup it's my problem :)
I'm thinking of making profiles partially public though. Barry, did
you notice significant SEO
improvement of your website due to having more content public for
Google to index?
Does Google direct greater traffic to your website because of your
existing profiles?
Cheers,
sSs
I'm thinking of making profiles partially public though. Barry, did
you notice significant SEO
improvement of your website due to having more content public for
Google to index?
Does Google direct greater traffic to your website because of your
existing profiles?
Cheers,
sSs
Barry Paul
Sep 29, 2010, 8:22:18 PM9/29/10
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Sorry, I missed your question...
Yes, indexing of Profiles made a huge difference. They are well marked
up with tags and micro-formats (thanks Bruno) and they are
automatically added to sitemap.xml so Google loves them.
In our case it was 12,000 additional pages, so that helps too! ;-)
Cheers,
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Barry
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