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Search Engine Optimization is the process of optimizing the appearance of your Space in a search engine's results.  Since Member.buzz is designed to be used by non-technical people, you will not have to worry about you most of items that you would normally have to with a traditional platform.

Changing domains and slugs.. how long does it take?

the vast majority of Search Engine Optimization is handled for you automatically.

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.This is generated based on the information provided in your Space Setup as well information about the current page

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 setup 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

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This will only contain content that has been marked as publicly accessible (see Roles and Permissions) 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.