Maria.Zone updates

[HelmutsHelmuts is verified member.]

I have done a series of updates to Maria Zone forum.

the main reason was that we are absent form the Google search results.
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1) urls changed to search-engine friendly ones. now these match both Maria Zone forum categories and forum threads
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### next 2: Google ANalytics and Search Console > will try 1 style that you can better understand the difference of both

2) Google analytics tag added - yes, it is time to start analyse the Maria Zone to make it even better.

In short: Google Analytics provides valuable insights that can help us improve our forum's user experience, content, and overall performance, and understand the audience.

Here are a few reasons why adding Google Analytics can be beneficial for us:

• Visitor tracking: With Google Analytics, you can track how many people visit our forum, where they come from, and what they do on our forum. This information can help you understand our audience's behavior, interests, and needs.
• Content performance: You can use Google Analytics to analyze which forum threads and posts are popular and which ones aren't. This data can help you make informed decisions about content creation and promotion.
• User engagement: You can track how long users stay on our forum, how many pages they visit, and how frequently they return. This information can help you understand our forum's user engagement and identify areas for improvement.
• Traffic sources: Google Analytics can show you where our forum traffic is coming from, such as search engines, social media, or referral links. This information can help you optimize our marketing and promotion efforts.

3) Maria.Zone has been added to Google's Search Console.
For many, both the Google Analytics and Search Console can be confusingly similar.

In short: adding Maria.Zone to Google Webmaster Tools will provide valuable insights and data that can help us to optimize forum's visibility and performance in Google search results.

Here are a few reasons why adding Google Search Console can be beneficial for us:

• Indexing status: Google Webmaster Tools can show you which pages of our forum have been indexed by Google and which ones haven't. This information can help you identify any indexing issues and ensure that our forum content is being crawled and indexed by Google correctly.
• Search queries: Google Webmaster Tools can provide data on the search queries that are driving traffic to our forum. This information can help you identify the most relevant search terms and optimize our forum content accordingly.
• Sitemap submission: You can submit a sitemap of our forum pages to Google Webmaster Tools, which can help Google crawl and index our forum more efficiently.
• Security issues: Google Webmaster Tools can alert you to any security issues on our forum, such as malware or hacking attempts. This information can help you take quick action to protect our forum and our users.

4) A simple XML sitemap https://maria.zone/sitemap.xml

• created
• added to the forum footer
• added to the Google's Search Console

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5) Added an option for the forum users to mark a question (a thread they have started) as "Solved"
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6) Forum has been prepared to add additional spider information to Maria.Zone .. no additional work has been done here > just the basis prepared

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Yes, and in the end, after so many internal changes > the loading speeds have been checked by the most demanding page speed test tool = Google PageSpeed Insights

Results: 95/100 on Mobile and 100/100 for Desktops! Nice

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This is good good Saturday for Maria.Zone indeed

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Any comments? Advice?

 

[Jimdraper]

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[HelmutsHelmuts is verified member.]

Thank you

 

[HelmutsHelmuts is verified member.]

just stubled upon this text..

.. soooo many things have happened since, and one of the main one - was migrating the simplemachines forum to the more professional Xenforo.

.. and decided to re-run the

site:maria.zone

google search:

much better now!!