Suggestion: don't index main page, but index the messages

If i search for any particular question:

"How to get a value from selected row on a table?" marimo"

"How to get a value from selected row on a table?" marimo"

, the Google response is my home page https://questions.marimo.io/ rather than the particular message.

1) since the home page is changing, i would probably not index that, and instead just rely on indexing each message page.
2) not sure if the thread pages are being indexed (at least for https://questions.marimo.io/), or maybe still in progess on google's end

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dan1st•9/30/24, 3:14 PM

I think Google wants the links to be there so the actual pages get found more easily

Myles ScolnickOP•9/30/24, 4:00 PM

i've tweaked some settings in https://search.google.com/search-console to hopefully nudge google.
i gave it the sitemap so hopefully that helps.

i think regarding indexing the homepage, maybe for bots you special case and just render static content (navigation, site title, site description). otherwise the homepage may "hit" for some content, but when you click that link, the content is gone. may be smart about this (?)

MMyles Scolnick If i search for any particular question: `"How to get a value from selected row ...

Rhys•10/1/24, 3:18 PM

Let me see what I can do to make Google recommend that page less, it’s important to have as it gives structure to the crawler

If you just present only message page links then Google won’t crawl them as they’ll think the site isn’t designed for humans

Rhys•10/1/24, 3:19 PM

I’d also recommend putting a backlink to your Answer Overflow community from your main marimo.io site as that’ll help with crawling

Myles ScolnickOP•10/1/24, 4:17 PM

awesome, thanks!