Making your courses searchable on Google

@Annarose.Peterson  The insight I can provide is from the opposite perspective, but might help if you don’t receive any further clarity from others.

We tried to use GA-4 to track ONE of our sub-folders in our extended enterprise, and ultimately found that all of our sub-folders were getting tracked. The data we received (in the analytics) seemed to show all courses, even those outside of the one sub-folder we tried to limit in the tracker. Eventually, we retired the GA-4 analytics from our platform because some of our content should never be indexed.

@KMallette Thank you for sharing!  We are in the same situation where we don’t want all of our content to be searchable, so this is good to know your experience with GA-4.

Hello @KMallette @Annarose.Peterson 

If I’m not mistaken, I think the context of the original question was about a user searching in google for docebo content, whereas the discussion continued on about Google Analytics for user tracking of a Docebo site.

I haven’t found info about the ‘user searching in google for docebo content’.  Any other insight on this?

Wait tell me more about this please. 
 

searchable or indexed? It’s all on archive.org too right (public catalogs and the login screens)

If something is indexed by GA4 that means it is searchable by google. Therefore anything in your public catalog gets indexed by google if you enable google analytics - and probably even if you don’t. 
 

what I’m curious about is - are people saying my private pages and courses not in the public catalog are being indexed and meta tagged by google and that data being exposed to the World Wide Web? That’s not good if so @KMallette 

there is a way to prevent this, by having a file called “no robots.txt” or something like that in the root directory, but Docebo would have to do this. 

We want our courses to come up in search results when someone searches them on google.  But we need to make sure that it is restricted to our public catalogs only.  But that is not something that we can do at this time.

I think I would be fine with all catalogs being searchable - how do I do that?

@lrodman that’s what we are trying to figure out.  Even if we want everything on the platform searchable, we haven’t figured out how to do that.  Currently we are linking our content to our own company’s user community, because those posts come up on google searches. 

Shouldn’t we be able to submit our sites in some way to google?

I would think that other than google site search, which has its own posts and I presume works very poorly, that google wouldn’t index “private” pages that require logins. But that would be my guess.

@Annarose.Peterson- good morning - a sidenote - I have heard about this one branch (pun intended) of development that was being supported with searching for courses directly in MS Teams with the MS Teams addin - it also percolated up during the last Docebo Inspire discussion. I keep asking, and no one is necessarily saying the development is happening in the Docebo Flow product only.

So maybe a bit of promise.