https://github.com/v17development/flarum-seo

Perfect SEO for your Flarum forum
https://github.com/v17development/flarum-seo

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Perfect SEO for your Flarum forum

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/v17development/flarum-seo
• Owner: v17development
• License: mit
• Created: 2018-11-22T19:01:25.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-03-01T12:20:21.000Z (4 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-03-01T13:34:42.181Z (4 months ago)
• Topics: flagrow, flarum, flarum-forum, flarum-seo, seo-tags
• Language: PHP
• Homepage: https://discuss.flarum.org/d/18316-flarum-seo
• Size: 1020 KB
• Stars: 41
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 19
• Open Issues: 24
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.md

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• awesome-flarum - SEO - Adds SEO tags for your forum. (Extensions / Analytics & SEO ([:top:](#table-of-contents)))

README

        
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# 🗂️ Flarum SEO 

First Flarum extension that add SEO tags to your Flarum forum.

## 📥 Installation

If you like to install this extension, run the following command:

```

composer require v17development/flarum-seo

```

## ♻ Updating

Run the following command on your server to update the plugin

```

composer update v17development/flarum-seo

```

## ⚒️ Extending & using in your own extension

You can use functionalities from this extension in your own extension. For more information, check [this knowledge base article](https://community.v17.dev/knowledgebase/22-extending-the-seo-extension).

## 🎁 Adding SEO tags to the following pages:

- Home page

- Tags page (if extension is enabled)

- Discussion page

- User profile

- Pages page (if extension is enabled)

## ✅ Works with

This extension will work with the following extensions enabled or disabled. All extensions are not required, but it will work together if they are installed and enabled:

- *Flarum likes* from **Flarum** https://github.com/flarum/likes

- *Flarum tags* from **Flarum** https://github.com/flarum/tags

- *Selected Post Best answer* from **FriendsOfFlarum** https://discuss.flarum.org/d/21894-friendsofflarum-best-answer

- *Sitemap* from **FriendsOfFlarum** https://discuss.flarum.org/d/14941-fof-sitemap

- *Pages* from **FriendsOfFlarum** https://discuss.flarum.org/d/18301-friendsofflarum-pages

## 🔍 How do the results look like in Google?

Potential it could look like this, after Google reindex your site. This could take a while before Google or any other crawler does this. The following screenshots are in Dutch, but you get the concept:

![How it looks like](https://i.ibb.co/5FgjNdp/Screenshot-152.png)

## ⏱️ How long will changes take effect?

It depends. Recrawling can take a few days, up to a few weeks until most of your results are updated. Use the [FriendsOfFlarum Sitemap](https://discuss.flarum.org/d/14941-fof-sitemap) to let Google know what discussions there are on your forum. You may speed it up by manually update a search result Google via the [Google Search Console](https://search.google.com/search-console/about), but that is no gurantee that the search result will be updated directly.

[Read more about how you can let Google recrawl your site](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6065812)

## Using following SEO methods:

The extension will use the following SEO methods:

- Default HTML meta tags:

  - application-name

  - description

  - keywords

  - language

- Adds ``robots.txt`` to your forum, when Sitemap extension of FriendsOfFlarum is enabled, the link to your sitemap.xml will appear in the robots.txt

- The Open Graph protocol (for social media, http://ogp.me):

  - og:type

  - og:title

  - og:description

  - og:url

  - article:published_time

  - article:updated_time

 

- Schema.org SEO standards (most used by Search engines)

  - WebPage https://schema.org/WebPage

  - QAPage (default) https://schema.org/QAPage

  - DiscussionForumPosting (when Question-Answer SEO results are disabled) https://schema.org/DiscussionForumPosting

  - CollectionPage https://schema.org/CollectionPage

  - ProfilePage https://schema.org/ProfilePage

- Sets page image to social media if set. When the first post contains an image, it will be used instead.

## 👍 You like what I did?

You may like to [buy me a coffee](https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jaspervriends) and support my work :)