How does Casnode do for SEO?

kenji_s · 15h

Our current forum is a single-page app and Google barely indexes it. How does Casnode compare?

casnode_team · 15h

Every topic, category, tag and profile page is rendered on the server, so the full text is in the HTML. On top of that:

canonical URLs, Open Graph tags and DiscussionForumPosting structured data on topics
/sitemap.xml, and RSS at /latest.rss and /top.rss
robots.txt that keeps private pages out
?page= links on lists and long topics that crawlers can follow
a topic URL with an old slug redirects to the current one

Set site_url on the Site Settings page, so that canonical URLs and the sitemap use your domain.

kenji_s · 15h

Checked the page source of a topic here, the whole post is in the HTML. Nice.

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