Can't google osgeo.org

[annakrat]

At least for me, just typing osgeo into google won't find osgeo.org. The first item is the osgeo wiki, but osgeo.org doesn't show up on the first page, which seems like a serious problem. Sorry if this is a known issue.

[lnicola]

Can confirm. I see nothing wrong with robots.txt (which is missing, except for a meta tag) or the main page, except maybe this tag, which seems unfortunate, but shouldn't be a problem:

<meta property="og:description" content="Sorry, but you do not have permission to view this content." />

And it doesn't even show up for site:osgeo.org, which is even more surprising.

[robe]

ah yes indeed first thing that comes up is the wiki and I concur osgeo.org is not coming up.

[robe]

Seems to be just google though.

I tried duckduckgo - ​https://duckduckgo.com/?va=t&t=hi&q=osgeo&ia=web and osgeo.org comes up first.

Also tried - ​https://www.ecosia.org/search?method=chromedefaultnewtab&q=osgeo and osgeo.org comes up first.

You know how long this issue has been going on?

[robe]

I note that github seems to be one of the first - ​https://github.com/OSGeo but github page is linked to the http instead of the https. Someone on github/OSGeo should fix that.

[neteler]

Replying to robe:

I note that github seems to be one of the first - ​https://github.com/OSGeo but github page is linked to the http instead of the https. Someone on github/OSGeo should fix that.

Fixed.

[cvvergara]

From SEO:

problems:

• Outbound links: No outbound links appear in this page. Add some!
• Internal links: No internal links appear in this page, make sure to add some!
• Keyphrase length: No focus keyphrase was set for this page. Set a keyphrase in order to calculate your SEO score.
• Meta description length: No meta description has been specified. Search engines will display copy from the page instead. Make sure to write one!
• Text length: The text contains 92 words. This is far below the recommended minimum of 300 words. Add more content.

Improvments:

• Image Keyphrase: Images on this page do not have alt attributes that reflect the topic of your text. Add your keyphrase or synonyms to the alt tags of relevant images!

Good Result:

• Images: Good job!
• SEO title width: Good job!

Changes done so far:

• Focus Keyphrase: from (empty) to "OSGeo"
  • Had to modify some other pages that used this one word as keyphrase
• Meta description: from (empty) to "OSGeo, OpenSource for GeoSpatial Fosters global adoption of open geospatial technology by being an inclusive software foundation"
• Title: from "Homepage" to "OSGeo"

Now: Good result section is:

• Images: Good job!
• Keyphrase in SEO title: The exact match of the focus keyphrase appears at the beginning of the SEO title. Good job!
• Keyphrase length: Good job!
• Keyphrase in meta description: Keyphrase or synonym appear in the meta description. Well done!
• Meta description length: Well done!
• Previously used keyphrase: You've not used this keyphrase before, very good.
• SEO title width: Good job!

This are still problems:

• Outbound links: No outbound links appear in this page. Add some!
• Internal links: No internal links appear in this page, make sure to add some!
• Keyphrase in introduction: Your keyphrase or its synonyms do not appear in the first paragraph. Make sure the topic is clear immediately.
• Text length: The text contains 92 words. This is far below the recommended minimum of 300 words. Add more content.

Comparing with ​https://www.osgeo.org/about/ That one is ok with outbound links, internal links, and text length, but has a text editor section.

Next steps:

• Add a text editor to the main page and copy some of the content onto the main page
• Check tthe following documentation: ​https://wordpress.com/support/seo/

[robe]

I ran this thru PageSpeed ​https://pagespeed.web.dev

and it pointed out the site is not indexable because I must have put an entry in the nginx perhaps copying from another config or when I was testing on osgeo9 before I officially moved the site and forgot to take the entry out.

The entry was

add_header X-Robots-Tag none

I've taken that out of the nginx config and reran and it no longer shows blocked from indexing.

Vicky I'll leave this open for you to finish off the numerous SEO issues we have with the site.

[cvvergara]

Added a text editor box, and copied from the OSGeo About page

The contents of the box do not show up, but SEO is not complaining.

As the design do not include to have text about OSGeo on the front page, then there is no need to change the php of the front page, but the SEO now is on green status.