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Search Engine Optimization is the process of ensuring that perspective members are able to find your Space via a search engine.

Tip

Since Member.buzz is designed to be used by non-technical people, the vast majority of Search Engine Optimization is handled for you automatically.

To hide your Space from search engine results, you can make your Space uncrawlable.

Metadata

Metadata is invisible information contained within your website that external sites can use to quickly understand its contents. For instance, if you paste the link of your Event into a social media post, it may be able to pre-determine the title and description of that Event automatically.

Title

Title tags are created based on the title of the current content and the Space Name. For instance, the About Page for the Penguin Club would look like this:

About | Penguin Club

All HTML tags relevant for all of the major search engines and social media sites will automatically be included.

Description

Description tags are taken from several different sources:

  1. The content's description field, if available, if the first source.
  2. If the content has a body field, a truncated version will be used next.
  3. Otherwise, your Space's description (which can be set up in your Setup Dashboard) is used.

Robots.txt

Search engines use a special file called Robots.txt to determine which parts of your site should be indexed. This file is automatically: 

https://www.penguin-club.org/robots.txt

Sitemap

Sitemaps are used to help search engines find content on your site.

A site map is automatically generated for each Space, containing all publicly viewable Create. For example, you can see the site map of our demo Space here:

https://www.penguin-club.org/sitemap.xml

This will only contain content that has been marked as publicly accessible (see Capabilities) and will automatically get updated whenever new content is added or changed on your Space.

Updates

Any changes to your site will be reflected in your Robots.txt and Sitemap almost immediately. Unfortunately, search engines may take up to two weeks to reflect new changes.

Rich Snippets

Schema.org JSON is generated for all relevant pages so that each page on a Member.buzz Space is capable of being shown in a rich snippet by a search engine.

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