SEO - Improve Member Directory Indexing by Search Engines
Current Situation
Member Directory content will not always be indexed by search engines even if the pages are publicly visible.
Desired Situation
Have all publicly visible pages (including member directories) be fully exposed and visible to search engines to improve site SEO ranking potential.
Frank
shared this idea
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Evgeny Zaritovskiy
commented
There is also thread on custom URLs of member profile - http://forums.wildapricot.com/forums/308932-wishlist/suggestions/8825935-custom-urls-for-member-profile-pages-7681 - but the thread main focus is also mainly about optimizing member directory for search engines.
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Evgeny Zaritovskiy
commented
Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any... Member directly is shown using JS code and this is not properly handled by search engines.
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Meagan
commented
I agree this is a very valuable idea....and something that we have been asked for from our membership.
If this is not available to us through Wild Apricot is there a workaround so that members in the directory are found through a google search?
Meagan
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fruitbat
commented
Our members would greatly appreciate this. We're a small, rural community and for many of our users the Wild Apricot profile page is the only web presence so it's important all member profiles can be optimized for search engines (SEO). In addition, having an XML sitemap would also greatly improve crawler access to member profiles.
