XF 2.0 How Do I Make My Forums Public and Content indexable by Google?

[rbirkey]

I recently migrated my forum from vBulletin 5 to Xenforo 2. Currently, very little content is being indexed by Google because the forum is set up to require a user to log in before viewing. I want to make the forum so that both registered and unregistered users can view all content, but unregistered users may not post any new content without a user account.

I have read and re-read the "permissions" documentation and I still don't understand it. I assumed I would need to make the permissions for the "Unregistered / Unconfirmed" Guest group to be able to view all forums content. But when checking my admin controls, they appear to already have those permissions... yet if I log out of Xenforo, I cannot access any of the forums.

What am I missing or not understanding?

 

[Paul B]

I can view all of the content on your site as a guest.

 

[rbirkey]

Why don't I see any content when logged out? Also, I don't see a setting called "revoke" on any of my group permission screens.

 

[rbirkey]

Also, when I paste a URL to a specific thread in Facebook, I get this:

 

[Jeremy P]

You probably have some node-level permissions set.

 

[rbirkey]

OK, here are three screens to try to figure out what I would need to change at the node level.

 

[Jeremy P]

Nodes in red (and particularly the user groups within them in red) have node-level permissions set. Since unregistered/unconfirmed is in red in one of those screenshots, I would assume it is set so they can't view the node(s) in question.

 

[rbirkey]

OK, thanks... I think I found it!