Each subpage with multiple pages like Helpcenter, Blog, Changelog, Roadmap have their own sitemap.xml file.

Example: https://helpcenter.subpage.app/sitemap.xml

Based on evidence of our own subpages and also our customers, the pages are indexed by Google and search engines. And are auto-optimized for SEO with meta tags, slugs.

Search inside subpages is contextual to the page titles, and keywords mentioned in the page. You an add related keywords to a page to rank it higher and produce relevant results

Thanks for asking.

Prabhuram_SubPage -

So it looks like that sitemap.xml file highlights the pages that are indexed... based on the page titles... but is the actual content of the page indexed?

The search functionality on each of the subpages you offer should not just search keywords that a user has do define... but it should actually search all of the words and searchable content on the page of each article. Sometimes a user might not be thinking of the exact keyword that would give them the info that they need. That's why it's important that your software is designed in a way that search engines and crawlers are searching for all words on a page... not just some keywords that you want to emphasize.

https://bit.ly/3NXcPup - Take a look at that google search, where I searched some keywords that may be important to someone... and see what pages show up for them: (Blog "Changelog" Helpcenter FAQ "Roadmap" "CMS" or website builder). THE APPSUMO page shows up b/c google has indexed the content within each of the individual pages on the site.

I may be missing something here but if I search google for the following:

"sinking" "Blog" "Changelog" "Helpcenter" "FAQ" "Roadmap" "CMS" or "website builder"

I get one search result... THIS SUBPAGE APPSUMO LANDING PAGE.

Then I tried to search some words from your article called: "How to share subpages with other members?" (https://helpcenter.subpage.app/article/How-to-share-and-collaborate-with-other-members)

On google I searched: "onboarding" "email" "domain" "sidebar" and got a ton of different articles.

So I had google search your site for those words that I grabbed directly from your article...

site:https://helpcenter.subpage.app/ "onboarding" "email" "domain" "sidebar"

ZERO search results.

And when I go to your search bar and type in "sidebar" which is a relevant descriptor word, in that article... your search bar returns nothing.

I might be wrong but this simple test seems to illustrate that the rich <p> content within all or most of your pages, are ignored... and that google and your platform can only search TITLE words for objects, as well as keywords that you have to manually enter for each article.

Please correct me if I"m wrong. I will say that the search capability with all of your subpages that have search bars, really needs to be refactored so that it is searching all words within each respective subpage. Is this something that we could expect that you guys will do? I don't see anything like this on your roadmap.

Prabhuram_SubPage -

"So it looks like that sitemap.xml file highlights the pages that are indexed... based on the page titles... but is the actual content of the page indexed?"

sitemap.xml always contains the page links only. It won't contain description or the page content as mandated by W3C https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/sitemaps/build-sitemap.

Search engines like google crawl the sitemap index to get to know all the pages in your helpcenter or blog and indexes it. Which is why SubPage provides an easy to way to get your pages indexed by search engines like Google.

Reg google search:

Ans: Full text search feature availability in a site is a feature meant only for within the site's search. Whether full text is available or not, Google will index your pages with all the content available in your site. It won't affect your site's indexing in Google.

In other words, Google crawls the only the DOM content in any page (HTML) and not access the backend data.

Full text search could be easily enabled in our current architecture. We are definitely evaluating this to bring it in the best possible way, especially in the current trends of vector search (AI).

But again this is nothing to with google' search or indexing of subpages.

Prabhuram_SubPage -

Thanks for your quick replies, here. We're going to buy your product for now... and keep our fingers crossed that a more robust and comprehensive global search functionality will be added to all of your objects where there is currently a search bar 🙏