XF 1.2 SEO of Xenforo Forum

[Karan Batra]

How do I do the SEO of Xenforo Forum?

I basically want to no-index a specific type of things. How can I do that and optimize my forum for SEO?

 

[Jeremy]

What are you attempting to add noindex to?

 

[Jake Bunce]

XenForo already has SEO features built-in that don't require any extra configuration on your part. Examples:

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/semantic-html.892/
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/html-5-microdata-in-breadcrumb.12347/

How do I do the SEO of Xenforo Forum?

I basically want to no-index a specific type of things. How can I do that and optimize my forum for SEO?

XenForo already adds 'noindex' and 'nofollow' as appropriate.

 

[Karan Batra]

I intent to No-index the Members and the Resources Section... I only want the threads to be indexed...

 

[Jake Bunce]

I intent to No-index the Members and the Resources Section... I only want the threads to be indexed...

In that case I suggest using a robots.txt file in your web root. Example:

http://xenforo.com/robots.txt

 

[Karan Batra]

Ok, Thanks

 

[Carlos]

By default, memberlist is "turned off." So, the only thing visitors and google will see is the "notable members" list. Just an FYI.

This is standard going from 1.2 and up.

BTW: SEO is a simple toggle, nothing much else needed to be done.

 

[Karan Batra]

Google is indexing the members as well in my case

 

[Carlos]

Google is indexing the members as well in my case

Hm. I see. Well, no-index your memberlist, then. :/

I could understand that at my site, google's indexing members because it used to be on the old memberlist (a to z listing, ya know). And that I'm using sitemaps.

 

[TBDragon]

check this mod

http://xenforo.com/community/resources/sitemap-for-xenforo.67/

it will help u in exclude some url from sitemap and index them in google
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if u make the memberlist & member profile are none view by guest google will not index them also

other than this addon u dont need any modification or mods for seo
i try to search for something but i didnt get any thing and thx god the built-in seo is great ^_^ also u must have a good content so google will index ur site fast

 

[Karan Batra]

Thanks for the guidance @TBDragon