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I have been trying to figure out how to influence both of the subject indexers to give more retentive information via search.
Right now, a google search on my domain name is showing the "For technical support or genealogy questions..." from my home page.
Using google.com, if I search the content of my Title tag I get "Search. Theme. clouds colors F.A.B. minimal webtrees xenea. Palette. Aqua Marine Ash Belgian Chocolate Blue Lagoon Blue Marine Coffee..."

Any suggestions?

Since you didn't mention what steps you have already taken, here are some basic ones that often help with search-engine visibility:

• Update your website's robot.txt file to include a link to your sitemap.
  Sitemap: https://domain-name/wt/sitemap.xml
• Go into the Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools and complete the steps for authenticating your website to them. I believe both give you the option of specifying a sitemap file, I do it here also. Both will commonly give you a coded file to drop into the base directory of your website as a way of confirming you own the site.

I find that Google does a better job of indexing my site than Bing, but it is never 100%, particularly if you have pages that haven't been changed in a long time.

Eric

Thanks Eric, I am setting up a sitemap as we speak.

If you use "Pretty URLs", then webtrees will generate robots.txt automatically.
If you enable the sitemap module, then the robots.txt will automatically contain a link to the sitemap.

Do you use "Google webmaster tools"?
(TIP - webtrees has a module which sets the google-verification-id field automatically)
This will give you good feedback about your site's search indexes.

Good to know!

I couldn't remember if I had created the robots.txt entries or not

I have created a sitemap with web-site-map.com. However, there are a lot of pages in the resulting sitemap.xml file should not be indexed. The page below has the meta tag to noindex.

<url><loc>skatekey.net/tree/peters.ged/report/indi...al_report?xref=I1642daily0.56

How can I prevent indexing of reports, calendar pages?

webtrees has built-in sitemap functionality.

It uses the standard privacy logic to decide which pages to include and which pages to exclude.

Just enable one or more trees in the "Sitemap" module…

The module also provides links so that you can submit the sitemap directly to major search engines automatically.

Thanks Greg. My point here is that web-site-map.com, that I am using to generate an sitemap is quiting after 5000 pages. It appears that its indexing a lot of calendar and report pages, that I don't need.
So, I am trying to stop that from happening......

I have added these entries to my robot.txt file