Google Search Console: lots of pages not indexed

Satusnovus · Post by **Satusnovus** » Sat Dec 07, 2024 10:29 pm

I've posted this at another subject and was told to install an extension. I'm searching for coding for a solution and not necessarily an extension.

I have an issue that shows up in Google Search Console:

Discussion Forum: 99% of your items don't qualify for advanced results
Check and fix issues that invalidate your items.
https://developers.google.com/search/do ... sion-forum

I have no idea what code to add now so that Google can properly index my forum in their search engine. Does anyone have a solution?

Post by **thecoalman** » Sat Dec 07, 2024 11:24 pm

I've not seen that suggestion in search console yet. When they are saying "99% of your items don't qualify for advanced results" they are referring to specific search services. You may see "forum results" when searching, I have phpBB pages showing up in those results.

I know you were directed to custom coding but this would require extensive work. Generally speaking custom coding is for simple one off edits or to get help with your own custom coding for phpBB.

This topic was already brought up in Ideas apparently by Google employee. There is response from Marc who is the lead developer for phpBB. It may be included with future releases of phpBB.

viewtopic.php?t=2638946

Satusnovus · Post by **Satusnovus** » Mon Dec 09, 2024 9:09 pm

I'm not sure it's extensive work. Searching online for a solution came to this:

Structured data should be added in JSON-LD:

{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Article",
"author": {
"@type": "Person",
"name": "Jan Jansen",
"url": "https://voorbeeld.nl"
}
}

I've no idea if this should be added in the header but I'm getting close. Unfortunately phpbb isn't that well for SEO and you'll need extra coding or extensions.

Post by **thecoalman** » Mon Dec 09, 2024 11:16 pm

How simple it is depends. I've been looking at this myself now that I'm aware of it. Between the heads tags is correct location based on Google documentation. I don't know if it can be placed anywhere else.Not sure if you can use external file but if you can you might want to look at feed.php for how you might implement as external file.

For the head tags In the template viewtopic_body.html is loop for the topics, you can try to use it in overall_header.html. Anywhere between the heads tags add:

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<!-- IF S_VIEWTOPIC-->
<!-- BEGIN postrow -->
{postrow.POST_AUTHOR_FULL} 
<!-- END postrow -->
<!-- ENDIF -->

Purge the cache, you always need to purge the cache after template edit. Load a viewtopic page with your browser and view the source code, if it worked you should have list of post authors. If that does work you are most of the way there, most if not all the template variables are already available.

SQLnovice · Post by **SQLnovice** » Sat Dec 14, 2024 5:57 pm

I've implemented your code into our forum's overall_header.html <head> section and will check back with any improvements in GSC's comments. I can confirm that coalman's code identifies all topic username authors in the topic's page source code too, once each for each post contained in the topic.

However, upon testing, each topic page now shows those usernames as the first line in a string across the top of each topic, above the forum logo. If I insert the code into viewtopic_body.html, it does the same thing, only under the logo and forum toolbars. Is there a way to hide the code, to prevent it from displaying?

Post by **thecoalman** » Sun Dec 15, 2024 1:42 am

SQLnovice wrote: Sat Dec 14, 2024 5:57 pm However, upon testing, each topic page now shows those usernames as the first line in a string across the top of each topic,

I guess I should of made this clear. It was just a test to see if the data you need is available in overall_header.html. Remove it if it's live board. For testing and development install XAMPP:

https://www.phpbb.com/support/docs/en/3 ... eb-server/

Just so it's 100% clear the following is not working example.  is a loop and will loop through every post. The template variables available like post text, date, author etc. can be found in viewtopic,php around line 2028, e.g. {postrow.POST_DATE_RFC3339} is post date you would want to use.

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<!-- IF S_VIEWTOPIC-->
// Non repeated code 
<!-- BEGIN postrow -->
//repeated code
"author": {
"@type": "Person",
"name": "{postrow.POST_AUTHOR_FULL}"
}
<!-- END postrow -->
// More non repeated code
<!-- ENDIF -->

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