Sorry, I missed your question... Yes, indexing of Profiles made a huge difference. They are well marked up with tags and micro-formats (thanks Bruno) and they are automatically added to sitemap.xml so Google loves them.
In our case it was 12,000 additional pages, so that helps too! ;-) Cheers, -- Barry On Sep 24, 7:42 am, sSs <[email protected]> wrote: > Yup it's my problem :) > > I'm thinking of making profiles partially public though. Barry, did > you notice significant SEO > improvement of your website due to having more content public for > Google to index? > Does Google direct greater traffic to your website because of your > existing profiles? > > Cheers, > sSs > > On Sep 23, 1:14 pm, Barry Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > > > That is your problem then. If your user profiles are private then they > > are hidden from non community members. This includes the Google web > > crawler! > > > Otherwise you would have private profiles appearing in Google searches > > - not a good thing... > > > Cheers, > > > -- > > BP > > > On Sep 22, 3:48 pm, sSs <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hmmm, my profiles are not public. By public you mean anyone visiting > > > my website can see those profiles and they do NOT have to create their > > > own profile and log in, right? > > > > Yeah, I use Google Webmaster tools. > > > > Thanks Barry, > > > sSs > > > > On Sep 21, 6:03 pm, Barry Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Yes, Google is indexing our profile pages. A couple of suggestions: > > > > > 1. Make sure your user profiles are public > > > > 2. Check your sitemap.xml contains user profiles and submit it to > > > > Google > > > > > Also, do you use Googles Webmaster tools? They can be very useful for > > > > debugging SEO problems. > > > > >https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ > > > > > Hope that helps! > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > -- > > > > Barry > > > > > On Sep 21, 4:21 pm, sSs <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > Has anybody indexed the CommunityEngine (CE) user profile pages > > > > > successfully in Google? After almost a year Google hasn't yet indexed > > > > > those pages of my users' "About Me" details. I noticed that CE Blogs > > > > > on my website has been indexed but not the Profile pages for > > > > > individual users. > > > > > > Can somebody please help me how to do that? Is it a configuration > > > > > setting I need to change for that page in CE? > > > > > > I think that will significantly improve the SEO of my website. I > > > > > thought that's a useful information for anybody adopting CE. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > sSs > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CommunityEngine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/communityengine?hl=en.
