Confirmed Meta information not on index page

[beerForo]

Affected version

2.3

When using whats-new as the index page (homepage), search results (google) do not have meta information such as your site description. Upon viewing the source code it is not there. Is this a bug since XF allows us to define our index, as, it should show the site name and description instead of the page name with zero description?

 

[beerForo]

In the meantime is there an edit we can do? Looks horrible in search results and bad for SEO, thanks!

 

[beerForo]

Best practice to add meta info for seo to What's New page? Any help appreciated, this is my home page and in google it has no description.

I just looked and the google result, where the site deception usually is, is part of a post from someone's introduction post. Not good.

 

[HotRodCarts]

I was going to use Featured Content as a home page but ran into the same issue.

 

[Jeremy P]

You can edit the corresponding templates to add a description in the meantime:

<xf:macro id="metadata_macros::metadata"
    arg-description="{$xf.options.boardDescription}" />

The featured page being marked noindex is an unfortunate oversight, but you can replace the top line of whats_new_wrapper with:

<xf:if is="!in_array($pageSelected, ['overview', 'featured'])">

 

[beerForo]

Thank you!

 

[beerForo]

Removed the page title code so it defaults to the site version, added this, and works like a charm.

 

[Jeremy P]

Will see about getting that behavior out of the box in a future release