XF 2.2 SEO improvements: noindex + exclude from sitemap

[Soyuz_new]

A nice improvement for Xenforo SEO would be to noindex pages in 2 levels:

• Single thread
• Whole forum (all threads in the forum + forum pages)

As of today, you only can noindex all threads in a forum from the node setup. But there is another problem: no matter if you noindex all threads, they appear in the xml sitemap anyway, so Google throws a lot of "Submitted URL marked ‘noindex’" errors.

So, it would be great to noindex single threads / whole forums AND exclude those noindexed items from the sitemap. Is there a way to do this? There is a XF2SEO module around promising part of that functionality, but seems unreliable.

I think that this should be a core feature, BTW. It makes not much sense to offer a "noindex threads" functionality for SEO reasons if you don't exclude them from the sitemap (because at the end you are hurting your SEO).

 

[Nulumia]

My SEO addon which is unreleased solves these points and adds even more index options and missing segments of the site map.

Add-on - A Look At The Upcoming Public Release of SEO & Index Tools

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[Nicolas FR]

Hello,

I have a lot of forums set to be noindex and have no errors in the search console.
Are you sure that threads included in the noindex forums appear in the sitemap?

 

[Kirby]

As of today, you only can noindex all threads in a forum from the node setup.

This isn't correct, you can set conditions on which threads should be noindex.

But there is another problem: no matter if you noindex all threads, they appear in the xml sitemap anyway

This isn't true either, noindex threads do not appear in the sitemap.
If they do (after the sitemap has been rebuilt so changed settings could become active) you''ll need to find out what's going wrong.

 

[Mr Lucky]

My SEO addon which is unreleased solves these points and adds even more index options and missing segments of the site map.

Add-on - A Look At The Upcoming Public Release of SEO & Index Tools

I'd like to offer an in depth look at the upcoming public launch of SEO & Index tools, an extremely powerful addon which has been in development for over a year. One important disclaimer: This article is intentionally verbose, giving very detailed explanations now to gather feedback before...

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Your addon looks great, but are you sure there is still an issue with noindex threads being in site map? If they are then that is surely a bug and should be addressed first.