Gabriel Torres

As you may noticed from my recent topics, I am trying to improve our website's SEO. One thing that caught my eye in our website's Google Search Console was the Coverage > Blocked due to access forbidden (403) report, with 38.7k entries. I noticed that most URLs have repeated patterns such as ?advanced_search_submitted=, ?do=reportComment, and ?do=markRead. My question is very simple: for SEO strategy, should we add those patterns to our robots.txt, or this wouldn't matter at all? My logic here: if we place these in robots.txt, Google won't try to crawl these pages, saving crawling time/bandwidth. Cheers!

This is regarding records in databases in Pages. My Activity Streams > Create new stream Content items only Content types: (selected all databases, which contain articles) Read status: everything Ownership: everything Following: everything Time period: last 7 days Sorting: newest activity first To my surprise, very old articles showed up. The reason being: I recently moved these articles from one category to another. IMO, these articles shouldn't be listed. Simply moving an article from one category to another shouldn't trigger it as being a "new activity". If this is the intended behavior, then the text should be about the item being moved, not about it being posted. Edit: this was caused because the records were edited. However, I don't think a simple edit shouldn't trigger this. Thanks

@Stuart Silvester brainfart here. I was aware of that, I even exchanged a couple of messages with you regarding robots.txt. We have in fact this directive in our robots.txt. I edited the title of this topic to reflect our current (and correct) discussion. # Block profile pages as these have little unique value, consume a lot of crawl time and contain hundreds of 301 links Disallow: /profile/ I was intrigued on why Google was still indexing my own profile and found this: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/robots/intro That is exactly what is happening here. Therefore, based on what you wrote, besides the nofollow, I believe that probably it should be added the noindex directive to the user profile pages. However, in order for the noindex to work, the pages must not be blocked in robots.txt: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/block-indexing Could you please take a look into this? Thanks.

Today I bring a very interesting suggestion: the ability for the platform to automatically create the meta description tags for the user profile pages. Taking my own profile in our community as an example: https://www.clubedohardware.com.br/profile/281750-gabriel-torres/ See how Google lists is ("There is no information available for this page"). It would be great that the platform automatically created the meta description based on a language phrase that could default to '%'s profile at %s', where the first replacement would be the username and the second one would be the website's name. Cheers.

Hi, This question refers to the Pages app. In the databases, we can set categories, and in each category, we can set default meta tags, as below: At the front-end, the Meta Description is being inserted correctly, however, the meta keywords is missing. Check the live URL for the above category: https://www.clubedohardware.com.br/artigos/armazenamento/ This could be a template issue, however, it looks like a core bug to me. Could you take a look into this? Cheers.

@Jim M That did the trick, but it is weird how the solution proposed by Daniel F, above, somehow didn't work for me. It would be best to redirect /store/ to /subscriptions/.

@Marc Stridgen same result, it generates lots of these invalid apple-touch-startup-image links.

@Daniel F Did that, cleared the caches, but it didn't work: it is still opening the store instead of the subscriptions.

Hello, I found out that Google is indexing https://www.clubedohardware.com.br/forums/startTopic/ The problem is, this URL should be available for users without the proper permission (e.g., logged in users). We have anonymous post disabled in our community. I checked and your website also has the same issue: https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/startTopic (try opening it in an anonymous tab to see). I can partly solve this by adding a rule to robots.txt, however I believe this is a bug: IMO the software should thrown a permission denied error or ask the user to log in. Cheers.

Hi, Today I found out using Google that the /store/ URL is active in our install, even though we don't use it, as we only have /subscriptions/: https://www.clubedohardware.com.br/store/ https://www.clubedohardware.com.br/subscriptions/ How could we disable acess to /store or redirect it to /subscriptions? BTW, why is this URL accessible if we don't have any products? Wouldn't this be something to be improved in the software? Thanks.

Hello, I've just ran the W3 HTML validator tool (https://validator.w3.org) here and it complained about these: <link rel="apple-touch-startup-image" media="screen and (device-width: 568px) and (device-height: 320px) and (-webkit-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (orientation: landscape)" href="https://www.clubedohardware.com.br/uploads/monthly_2021_06/apple-startup-1136x640.png">↩ <link rel="apple-touch-startup-image" media="screen and (device-width: 812px) and (device-height: 375px) and (-webkit-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (orientation: landscape)" href="https://www.clubedohardware.com.br/uploads/monthly_2021_06/apple-startup-2436x1125.png">↩ <link rel="apple-touch-startup-image" media="screen and (device-width: 896px) and (device-height: 414px) and (-webkit-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (orientation: landscape)" href="https://www.clubedohardware.com.br/uploads/monthly_2021_06/apple-startup-1792x828.png"> I checked and these are generated in the includeMeta template, which is unmodified in our install. I checked invisioncommunity.com and it doesn't get the same errors, because it is using apple-touch-icon instead. I don't know the difference between the two tags. Please advise! Cheers!

@Adriano Faria The new plugin is now available at the marketplace. Working great here.

@Adriano Faria Not available yet (broken link).

Many thanks @Adriano Faria once again for creating these plugins for us! 🙂

Hello, I wish we had an option to disable the "Pages" ("Páginas", in our translation below) option in the search menu. As these fixed pages have no relevant content in our website, this option, being at the top, only creates clutter, taking up unecessary space. Note that I've already suggested the same for Products, and here we ended up using a plugin developed by Adriano Faria based on my suggestion to achieve this. My original suggestion to disable Products from search remains! 🙂 Thanks, Gabe.

Hi, I wish we had a way to specify the order of the databases displayed in the Search and in the +Post features of the community. Currently, there is no way to specify the order we want them to be displayed, so they are listed according to the primary_id_field. I wanted to change the order, so the most used/popular databases are listed at the top and the least used/popular are listed at the bottom of these lists. Examples: In these two places, I wanted to change the order of the databases. Proposed solution A new 'order' field in the databases. In the ACP > Pages > Databases screen, the databases would have the drag & drop reordering feature that is present in several other places in the ACP (e.g. ACP > Pages > Blocks). Wherever in the front-end that databases are to be displayed, they would follow the same order set in the ACP. I hope you can implement this. Cheers, Gabe

Thanks @Marc Stridgen! Here we go:

Hi, Two questions regarding the search option: 1. Is there a way to change the order of the Pages database in the list of avaliable places to do a search? See below. It seems the databases are listed based on their ID (primary_id_field). We want to change the order, to place the most popular databases on top and the least popular at the bottom of the list. 2. Is there a way to disable the "Pages" option(Páginas in our translation, see above) from being listed? Because it is the first option and for us it doesn't make sense to leave this option available, as our static pages has little to none value for searches. I know that we can disable each database from being feature in this menu, however I am not being able to find a similar option for static pages. Thank you in advance.

@Sonya* Thanks for the prompt reply. It worked like a charm! 🏆

Hi, With article in pages, the platform automatically creates the description meta tags based on the article contents. In our databases, we have a custom field with a summary that could be better used as description. Is there a way for us to use that field instead of the default behavior? If not, that is a suggestion that I leave for a future version. Ditto for the keywords fields. Note: I know that I could adjust this manually using the SEO editor. however we have thousands of articles, using this editor is simply insane. Thanks.

@Hisashi No. This is an issue that IPS is already aware of (see previous posts).

Hi, If I create a child theme in the ACP, this theme shows out of order at the front end. See below the theme "Bravo 6 - tema escuro - Avatar quadrado". Thanks.

Thanks @Marc Stridgen! It was, in fact, the anonymity option, which I couldn't find, as in order to reach the page where it is located, one needs the user's password! 🙂

@Marc Stridgen Please try the following IDs: 39710 39658 39597 (Note: at the moment we use a plugin that adds the usergroup at the header of each comment, however, with this plugin disabled, the same issue happens, as shown in the screenshot).

@Marc Stridgen My second thought, after caching, would be the anonymous login. However, I am not being able to find this option/setting to check it out. Can you point me in the right direction? Thank you in advance.