XF 2.2 How to allow "Search Forum" nodes to be index by search engine?

[rdn]

How can I remove this from search forum pages source?
<meta name="robots" content="noindex" />

Editing search_forum_view template is enough?
by removing:
<xf:head option="metaNoindex"><meta name="robots" content="noindex" /></xf:head>

 

[Mr Lucky]

I’m only in n my phone at the moment so can’t easily check but that should do it. Best thing I’d to try then use your browser to view the page source to double check it’s gone.

 

[Mr Lucky]

Yes it does seem to work. But be aware this is probably for a good SEO reason I imagine however I do think it would be good if we at least had the option.

On the face of it a search forum may not have much value to Google, but of course you could always improve the page for SEO by adding some useful text content via a widget

 

[rdn]

I do think it would be good if we at least had the option.

Yeah, that would be great.
Maybe as node settings.

 

[beerForo]

Probably because it would be considered duplicate content. It's literally a search result.

 

[VBX Co]

Doesn’t the search number change with each call of the URL? In which case it’ll be useless trying to get Google to index it.

 

[rdn]

You guys mis-understood Search Forum Node?

XF 2.2 - Search forums, SEO improvements and dev team news

A new way to surface content Forums are usually devoted to a single subject matter and the threads they contain relate to that subject matter, unless it's all gone wrong and your users are wandering off topic. Threads belong to their parent forums, so if your board separates posts about kittens...

xenforo.com

I used it to have an exclusive page for New threads/questions/popular-today/popular-monthly/etc.

 

[rdn]

I'm talking about this new node

 

[beerForo]

It's a search result of pre-determined criteria.

 

[VBX Co]

Sure, but doesn’t that node type just generate a specific search query?

 

[beerForo]

However, that is not answering your question of how to remove it. I'll leave that to others.

 

[rdn]

Search Forum Node sample:

Resolved bugs

An example search forum where you can see all recently fixed bugs.

xenforo.com

 

[beerForo]

Correct. That's a search result. It uses the batch update threads architecture. Hence the name Search Forum.

 

[beerForo]

What's tricking your eye is it is formatted as a forum, that is the cool part. But the backend is "batch update threads" criteria.