Elgg is intended to be "social", yet it lacks basic functionality to 'get it found'. Site admins have to run special plugins or programs and take all sorts of steps so their site is indexed and searchable. This is so counter-intuitive to me.
plugins like the xml sitemap generator, to submit sitemaps to google webmaster tools
core as in, they come with a vanilla elgg install, ready to go
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You must log in to post replies.IMO, no need bcz Elgg is a fine indexed tool.
Use modern OpenGraph protocol instead of an oldest sitemap
Elgg DOES NOT get indexed by itself
Google Webmaster tools requires XML sitemap. It does not use OpenGraph
EDIT: Aren't you the same person who helped me get the site indexed in my topic in support? You said there that elgg does not generate sitemaps. lol now you say it is not needed.
Pages on the Internet get indexed without any supporting tools, that's the way crawlers work. Of course using them may be beneficial, however you can say that Elgg gets indexed by itself (however funny it sounds). FYI: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/156184?hl=en&ref_topic=8476
I'd be mostly concerned here about your features being hardly accessible on the page. If crawlers can't find them, how would you expect your users to do so?
@ɥɔuıɹƃ lɐʇıƃıp I think that you don't understand me there and here ;) RTFM from Google first, plz
No special plugins are required for crawlers to index Elgg. If your site cannot be indexed it's most likely something you have done it.
Matt is correct. Many elgg sites that I worked on were indexed by google. A good way to be visible by Google is add your site in google web tools.
Rodolfo Hernandez
Arvixe/Elgg Community Liaison
My old Elgg site has some business names and they came up 1 or 2 when you Googled that business.
Nothing from the elgg portion of the site was indexed by google.
There was content on the elgg site pages for over 200 days that was not still indexed by google
After I submitted a sitemap in google webmaster tools, everything was indexed, within hours for some content, days for the rest.
I did nothing to the site to 'prevent' it from being indexed.
Based on these facts I do not believe elgg lends itself to being indexed by google. I had to generate my own xml sitemap to get the site indexed.
That is my point, that this should be built-in. We should not have to go through this
Nobody else had to go through that...
That is not true, Matt. Keep at it.
I happen to have a few pages open or bookmarked
This person had trouble
http://community.elgg.org/discussion/view/1192327/elgg-seo-google-not-indexing-blog-articles
This person created a plugin to fix the problem in older elgg
http://community.elgg.org/plugins/385064/1.0/planphoria-elgg-siteindex-generator
This person created a plugin for 1.8
http://community.elgg.org/plugins/1077524/0.3/auto-sitemap-dinamic-seo-sitemapxml-generation
There are more threads of people having problems with indexing that I don't have open still because they were just reporting the problem, no solution, or were basically duplicate. A few others mentioned this third party program
http://enarion.net/tools/phpsitemapng/
This is what I ended up using. After those months of not being indexed, I went from literally nothing to literally everything indexed in a few days. I feel this functionality should be included with a core elgg installation.
I shared my opinion. What the leader/leaders/dev-team/whomever decide to do is out of my hands.
Thanks to all for your input