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Allow Confluence Cloud instances to Claim the Subdomain from Google Webmaster Tool

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      Currently, customer is unable to claim the subdomain (example.atlassian.net) and manage their search directly from the Google Webmaster Tool.

      This has caused the customers unable to properly market their contents successfully on the search engine.

      Please provide a way to claim the subdomain from Google Webmaster, from one of the suggested ways by google:

      1. add a verification file on the root domain
      2. allow to add a html meta tag on the home page

            [CONFCLOUD-58334] Allow Confluence Cloud instances to Claim the Subdomain from Google Webmaster Tool

            Ruth Stento added a comment -

            This limitation, along with the limitation for using Google Analytics is exactly why we are moving our content for external consumption off Confluence. It's 2023 Atlassian. Everyone uses Google for SEO.

            Ruth Stento added a comment - This limitation, along with the limitation for using Google Analytics is exactly why we are moving our content for external consumption off Confluence. It's 2023 Atlassian. Everyone uses Google for SEO.

            Gurpreet Luthra added a comment -

            Hi Marcus,

            I had raised a support request with Atlassian, and after numerous rounds of back-and-forth, about me stressing the importance of making our opensource documentation publicly crawlable, the Atlassian team some how enabled /wiki in robots.txt. See this: https://talk.openmrs.org/t/google-showing-very-few-bahmni-confluence-wiki-results/39686. Thank god! 

            I hope you also get this resolved for you! thanks!

            Gurpreet Luthra added a comment - Hi Marcus, I had raised a support request with Atlassian, and after numerous rounds of back-and-forth, about me stressing the importance of making our opensource documentation publicly crawlable, the Atlassian team some how enabled /wiki in robots.txt. See this: https://talk.openmrs.org/t/google-showing-very-few-bahmni-confluence-wiki-results/39686 . Thank god!  I hope you also get this resolved for you! thanks!

            Marcus Brändle added a comment -

            @gurpreet: It seems your site has been indexed while we still struggle and have empty google results. If you still follow this ticket I would be interested to find out what you did to have your site indexed?

            Marcus Brändle added a comment - @gurpreet: It seems your site has been indexed while we still struggle and have empty google results. If you still follow this ticket I would be interested to find out what you did to have your site indexed?

            Gurpreet Luthra added a comment -

            Bahmni website is not being indexed properly by Google. This is an opensource project for NGOs/Hospitals across the world, and the whole public documentation is not being indexed properly now by Google. It used to work fine. The space is public, the site settings are public for anonymous view. DuckDuckGo indexes it just fine. Can we find a way to make it easier for Google to index Confluence Cloud Spaces which are public please!

             

            See Google Results for "Security Guide Bahmni": https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=Security+guide+bahmni

            See DuckDuckGo results for same (MUCH BETTER!): https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Security+Guide+Bahmni&t=h_&ia=web

             

            The google results above contain no Confluence Wiki links!

            Gurpreet Luthra added a comment - Bahmni website is not being indexed properly by Google. This is an opensource project for NGOs/Hospitals across the world, and the whole public documentation is not being indexed properly now by Google. It used to work fine. The space is public, the site settings are public for anonymous view. DuckDuckGo indexes it just fine. Can we find a way to make it easier for Google to index Confluence Cloud Spaces which are public please!   See Google Results for "Security Guide Bahmni": https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=Security+guide+bahmni See DuckDuckGo results for same (MUCH BETTER!): https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Security+Guide+Bahmni&t=h_&ia=web   The google results above contain no Confluence Wiki links!

            Mathias Kimpl added a comment -

            We decided to use Atlassian Confluence Cloud for our Knowledge Base, but find out now the indexing in google is very poor. This feature is essential to manage the google indexing and therefore the findability of our content for our users.

            Mathias Kimpl added a comment - We decided to use Atlassian Confluence Cloud for our Knowledge Base, but find out now the indexing in google is very poor. This feature is essential to manage the google indexing and therefore the findability of our content for our users.

            Helen Gosper added a comment -

            It would be useful to be able to configure this in some way order to make use of Google Analytics Search Console. None of the methods advised by the Search Console doco seem to apply to confluence cloud.

            Helen Gosper added a comment - It would be useful to be able to configure this in some way order to make use of Google Analytics Search Console. None of the methods advised by the Search Console doco seem to apply to confluence cloud.

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