Solved K 3.0 SEO Meta Description Generators

Kubik-Rubik wrote: You are right, I didn't notice it. This is very bad and needs to be fixed immediately!

Can someone please explain to me - because I really do not know the answer - how this is bad for www.kunena.org and what is the specific problem that must be fixed immediately. If something needs to be fixed at www.kunena.org immediately then I will make sure that it gets done immediately (as long as I understand the nature of the emergency). Is www.kunena.org going to die or crash? Are the pages at www.kunena.org not being indexed by Google? Are people unable to search the site to find information they need? Because these thing are important and could become an emergency situation that requires immediate attention.

So, if someone would be kind enough to explain the nature of the emergency to me, I would be happy to make sure that it becomes the project's number one priority. If someone has a solution that they would like to share with the project team, I am sure the developers would appreciate this help. Thanks in advance.

First, please read this: support.google.com/webmasters/answer/96569?hl=en

It is okay to use the nofollow attribute for unverified outgoing links but not for internal links! Of course this attribute can also be used for crawl prioritization on the internal link structure but why would you want to exclude the most important pages (topics / threads) from being crawled and indexed by search engines? That's weird!

Crawl prioritization: Search engine robots can't sign in or register as a member on your forum, so there's no reason to invite Googlebot to follow "register here" or "sign in" links. Using nofollow on these links enables Googlebot to crawl other pages you'd prefer to see in Google's index. However, a solid information architecture — intuitive navigation, user- and search-engine-friendly URLs, and so on — is likely to be a far more productive use of resources than focusing on crawl prioritization via nofollowed links.

As ChaosHead said, this should be fixed as soon as possible to improve SEO in Kunena! I have fixed it already on my project page. The fix is very easy and needs only changes in two lines in the view class of Kunena.

The result is that the titles of the topics have the follow attribute and other links still have the nofollow attribute. See screenshot (follow = blue, nofollow = red):



Of course I would like to share my solution if there is a demand in the Kunena community.

Regards

Thanks for the feedback but I don't quite understand the immediacy of the problem and, in particular, how it may affect this website here at www.kunena.org (or other sites, for that matter, either).

Kubik-Rubik wrote: As ChaosHead said, this should be fixed as soon as possible to improve SEO in Kunena!

What happens if this problem is not fixed "as soon as possible"? Will life on this planet as we know it cease to exist? (I'm kidding, of course, but I think it's important for us to all understand the reasons for why this seems to be such an urgent matter) Being quite serious, if this problem is not fixed, as soon as possible, what is the impact of the problem on this website here ( www.kunena.org ) and for other people? This is really the essential question and this is the issue that I don't understand. I would really appreciate expert guidance on the matter. I read the article you referred to and it really did not seem to make a lot of sense in terms of this being a pressing problem that requires priority treatment.

Kubik-Rubik wrote: I have fixed it already on my project page. The fix is very easy and needs only changes in two lines in the view class of Kunena.

And, what, specifically, is the fix that you recommend, please? I would like to refer this to my more experienced colleagues who can offer their thoughts. Thanks.

Sozzled, I do not refer to this website (kunena.org) but to the handling of the internal link structure in general! Just examine a big forum such as forum.joomla.org , you will never find a nofollow attribute for internal links.

The problem to use the nofollow attribute for topics is that Google does not index the linked pages and does not use the link for the ranking. Obviously, every administrator wants to have these pages in Google's index, or what do you think? See also here for more details: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow#Interpret...idual_search_engines

The good thing is that the search engines are smart enough to use the feed to get the needed data from the forum... but this is not an optimal solution. The nofollow attribute should at least be removed from the topic links (as I have implemented in my Kunena instance).

Thank you for your reply but, I'm sorry to appear obtuse, I still do not fully understand the urgency and the consequences for not addressing this matter with the priority that a few people seem to think is required.

I am more concerned about the broad statement made earlier in this topic that there is something that needs to be fixed "as soon as possible." This statement could imply that there is something seriously wrong that affects all Joomla websites using the Kunena forum - and the forum at www.kunena.org is no different to any other site, true?

Do we have a problem for all Joomla websites using K 3.0.3 - yes or no - and if we do have a problem what are the consequences. I really would like some evidence or examples of the consequences so that I can help you by providing evidence on the developers to prioritise this as a more urgent need.

It's not so much that there may be a problem. The issue is (as Matias wrote earlier) the priority that this matter needs to be given serious and urgent attention. I am more concerned whether this is an urgent matter than affects any (or every) website using Kunena software. From the sounds of things, this is not something that we need to be too worried about with www.kunena.org but, I agree with you, it affects different people in different ways.

Can you help the developers of Kunena to show them where, specifically, they should make changes for the future - we are currently working on K 3.0.4 - and possibly this is something that could be used in the near future. Perhaps you might like to contribute your suggestions on GitHub ?

Please consider for version 3.0.4 to modify the last part of every URL when using SEO feature on kunena.

For example:
www.examplewebsite.com/category/ 2

instead of:

www.examplewebsite.com/ category?limitstart=50


This should work better for crawlers (URL Parameters)