Lack of interest Thorough forum SEO/META settings

[Chernabog]

It seems that only very dew parts of XenForo allow for any SEO/Metadata ... which makes it hard to help get the forum more rankings. Would love to see a more robust system to help forum owners get their hard worked better ranked in the search engines.

 

[Paul B]

Such as?

You need to give specifics.

 

[Chernabog]

Such as?

You need to give specifics.

Sorry, about that. I'm not the best with technical things, and I am trying to think of some examples to provide you. I'll have to play around to find a good example. I notice that on some areas of our XF community, if I put a link in Discord (for example) when it unfurls and shows our community name and logo there may not be any decent explanation of the area they're going to. This tends to happen more with add-ons which may be out of what you can control on your end.

 

[James]

This should be better for 2.3. Have you seen the have you seen for link unfurling? See below, which ironically also shows the unfurling.

XF 2.3 Thread 'Embed your content anywhere'

Oct 31, 2023

This week, we're delighted to introduce a new feature in XenForo 2.3 that enhances the way you can share content on your forum. Plus, we'll show you how easy it is to share any content from your forum to other platforms using our new content embedding feature.

Rich previews for content​

If you're already familiar with URL unfurling, content embedding works similarly. In XenForo 2.2, when you post a link to content on your forum, we perform an HTTP request, download a portion of the content, and extract metadata such as the page title, description, and a logo. If you need a refresher...

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[Paul B]

That's not really an SEO issue.

However, 2.3. introduces embedding content on external sites.

XF 2.3 Thread 'Embed your content anywhere'

Oct 31, 2023

This week, we're delighted to introduce a new feature in XenForo 2.3 that enhances the way you can share content on your forum. Plus, we'll show you how easy it is to share any content from your forum to other platforms using our new content embedding feature.

Rich previews for content​

If you're already familiar with URL unfurling, content embedding works similarly. In XenForo 2.2, when you post a link to content on your forum, we perform an HTTP request, download a portion of the content, and extract metadata such as the page title, description, and a logo. If you need a refresher...

• Chris D
• Replies: 111
• Forum: Have you seen...?

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[Paul B]

 

[James]

Here all week...

 

[Mr Lucky]

and I am trying to think of some examples to provide you. I'll have to play around to find a good example.

A good example might be custom meta titles and descriptions for threads.

On-site keyword, heading structure and text analysis. (Like WP Yoast). More obvious and user friendly alt tag implementation, ie prompt to add alt tag and title at the point of image upload/embed.

Batch update threads to noindex