Buddypress Groups SEO settings

Hello,

Thank you for your query and we are so sorry about the trouble this must have caused.

I checked your site and can confirm that our plugin is adding the meta description correctly to the pages. All the settings to allow Google to show a description in the SERPs are also correct. You can use the following tool to confirm that: https://rankmath.com/tools/meta-tag-analyzer/

Please wait for Google to crawl the site again and update the preview in the results. You can also use the URL inspection tool of your GSC account to check the last crawl date of the URLs.

Let us know how that goes. Looking forward to helping you.

Hello,

1. Please note that it is a pretty common thing with Google these days. It happens with 70% of the results that even if everything’s fine, Google decides to show a different meta information for your search keyword, there is nothing you can do as Google sometimes ignores the custom meta info altogether and show something from the page’s content that matches the search intent better.

To understand more about this, please check this article: https://rankmath.com/kb/different-meta-title-and-description/

2. Groups aren’t in your sitemap at the moment. Please make sure you have included by setting it up on Rank Math > Sitemap Settings.

You can check your sitemap here: https://mylocalcommunity.org/sitemap_index.xml

Assuming you have already submitted your sitemap index, you don’t need to manually submit individual sub sitemaps or URLs as Google should be able to crawl them.

3. Right now, I am seeing 162 characters as seen in this screenshot:

Can you please clear your website cache and check again from your end?

Looking forward to helping you.

Hello,

Can you please confirm if the Groups are registered as a post type or taxonomy in the sitemap settings:

There should be the Include in Sitemap option there for Groups that you can enable to include their sitemap in the main sitemap.

If they are not there, we might need to take a closer look at the settings. Please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WordPress & FTP logins in the designated Sensitive Data section.

Please do take a complete backup of your website before sharing the information with us.

It is completely secure and only our support staff has access to that section. If you want, you can use the below plugin to generate a temporary login URL to your website and share that with us instead:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/temporary-login-without-password/

You can use the above plugin in conjunction with the WP Security Audit Log to monitor what changes our staff might make on your website (if any):

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/

We really look forward to helping you.