Reply To: Content Invisible to Google
@baldarab – if you were to create duplicate content in order for it to get indexed, I would add a robots.txt that tells google and others to not crawl / index your pages. It’s bad to have pages with duplicate titles and no meta description- as is the issue with how groups are currently handled in your case and many others… however, having a second page on the site with the exact same content in order to get it indexed may cause the dreaded duplicate content penalty, and perhaps the “thin content” – lower ranking factoring.
Certainly it would be best to get the title and meta descriptions fixed with bp groups (and member pages) as the best solution, but seeing how you are currently using the groups as basically a page with an activity, votes, comments, and related ones.. with a “sign up to add your own” option, – I wonder if it would be best to just delete those “groups”…
Instead I would consider making them just a new “page” of the site.. or if you really want to get into the whole “different users sharing different projects” – kind of instructables kind of thing – with a twist, it may be better to turn on WP multi-site – and make each activity a new “site (blog)”
– doing so would give you the same features – a video, instructions, related activities (posts and sites) – ability to sign up and create your own, comments, etc…
and that would give you the standard WP search indexing options – good page titles, descriptions, etc (not the errors that bP is currently producing for those pages)
just a thought – not exactly sure how you are using the groups thing and what the goal is with it, just glancing at the setup and thinking what I may do…
