How is your SEO experience with Nodebb?
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Hi guys, I'm working in my forum www.foromovil.org without results at ranks.
I want to know your suggestions to improve the SEO of my website, and your experience with your websites.
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If you want to become obsessed with way too many details:
https://sitechecker.pro/If you want to be reasonable, this does an OK job:
https://www.seobility.net/en/seocheck/ -
Generally, with nodeBB, there are a lot of improvements to be made. There are basically three categories of issues.
- hrefs that are partials until a click event happens, or in long threads too many repeated URLS to the users.
- metadata mismatches or missing metadata, particularly with either wrong or mismatched canonical URLs and missing social graph data.
- H-tags issues. (repeated, too short, too long)
Then, there are the challenges of maintaining historical data. Links go bad, non-https links, etc.
Some improvements could be made to improve this platform-wide, and I think most of it would be in updating the Harmony Theme, as most of the issues come from the markup itself.
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@Chad-Augur any specific instances you can point to?
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@julian Yes, I have a lot of examples. I was thinking I would work through Harmony and submit PRs to it. Seems like the right thing to do. However, if you want to see for yourself, I think you should run this forum through the sitechecker.pro, it is very illuminating. In the last few weeks, I have learned a lot about how pages are viewed and processed by analytics platforms. For now, I have turned off analysis of my forum so I can hit my target score for the rest of my site. When I spin it up again, I will provide more details. I am also learning what portions of the forum I should hide from analyis/spiders.
@baris addressed one issue I found last week.
https://community.nodebb.org/topic/17946/challenges-in-seo-optimization-and-related-topics/5
The other thing, front of mind, is there are some "category" links somewhere, and it appears to be a partial "/category/" which is a 404; my guess is that it receives context on click.
Canonical URLs are having some issues pretty broadly.
Page meta-tag descriptions are the same for almost every page.
Social Graph data has overlapping issues with the above two issues.
