# Google Searches

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/google-searches/130>\
**Category:** Forum and website feedback\
**Created:** [April 17, 2017, 3:18pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/google-searches/130 "2017-04-17T15:18:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
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**Author:** ![Lorensen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/lorensen/32/31_2.png) [@Lorensen](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Lorensen)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2017, 3:18pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/google-searches/130/1 "2017-04-17T15:18:07Z")

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Will google searches for slicer questions find information in these forums?

Google did find info from the slicer-devel list (via nabble).

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**Author:** ![lassoan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/lassoan/32/13_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2017, 4:16pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/google-searches/130/2 "2017-04-17T16:16:40Z")

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Yes, of course! [Some pages](https://www.google.com/search?q=site:discourse.slicer.org) are indexed already, but if posts don’t show up well in a few weeks then we should do something about it.

@ihnorton, have you used [Google Search Console](https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home)? Should we register [discourse.slicer.org](http://discourse.slicer.org) there?

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**Author:** ![ihnorton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/ihnorton/32/9_2.png) [@ihnorton](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/ihnorton)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2017, 10:32pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/google-searches/130/3 "2017-04-17T22:32:34Z")

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> [@lassoan](#):
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> have you used Google Search Console? Should we register [discourse.slicer.org](http://discourse.slicer.org) there?

I have not used it, but I just registered this site now – verified via google analytics account, and added you and Steve as owners (couldn’t add Jc for some reason, will try again later).

They don’t have any data processed for this site, so I don’t see much to do there yet.

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**Author:** ![lassoan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/lassoan/32/13_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2018, 5:47pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/google-searches/130/4 "2018-06-09T17:47:33Z")

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I’ve checked Google indexing status ([https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/index-status?hl=en&authuser=0&siteUrl=http://discourse.slicer.org/](https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/index-status?hl=en&authuser=0&siteUrl=http://discourse.slicer.org/)) for [http://discourse.slicer.org](http://discourse.slicer.org) and there is a steep decline since January. Most probably because google is phasing out http and prefers https.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/slicer/original/3X/5/1/5108c36a484f40fe5a3b904e230376dea08dd8cc.png)

@ihnorton, could you please try to grant access to my gmail user ([andraslasso@gmail.com](mailto:andraslasso@gmail.com)) to Google indexing status for https site as well? Thank you!

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**Author:** ![pieper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pieper/32/8_2.png) [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2018, 6:15pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/google-searches/130/5 "2018-06-09T18:15:01Z")

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Any idea why they don’t find the https version of this site?

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**Author:** ![lassoan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/lassoan/32/13_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2018, 6:20pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/google-searches/130/6 "2018-06-09T18:20:36Z")

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I think they index the https version of the site, but I only have access to the http site indexing status and not to the https site.

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**Author:** ![pieper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pieper/32/8_2.png) [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2018, 6:51pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/google-searches/130/7 "2018-06-09T18:51:38Z")

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Good to try to fix this - from a spot check I only get discourse results from google if I include the word discourse in the search terms.

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**Author:** ![ihnorton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/ihnorton/32/9_2.png) [@ihnorton](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/ihnorton)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2018, 1:58pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/google-searches/130/8 "2018-06-11T13:58:37Z")

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> [@lassoan](#):
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> @ihnorton, could you please try to grant access to my gmail user ([andraslasso@gmail.com](mailto:andraslasso@gmail.com)) to Google indexing status for https site as well? Thank you!

Ok, done. I also tried adding the https site to google search console myself, but it doesn’t show up in the list yet. Maybe it needs time to aggregate.

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**Author:** ![lassoan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/lassoan/32/13_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2018, 3:36pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/google-searches/130/9 "2018-06-11T15:36:18Z")

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Thank you. I don’t see any hits for https either. Let’s wait a bit to see if it’ll start working by itself.

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**Author:** ![jcfr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/jcfr/32/17825_2.png) [@jcfr](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/jcfr)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 6:03pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/google-searches/130/11 "2019-06-04T18:03:40Z")

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@lassoan @pieper I am wondering what is the current indexing status of the different slicer domains.

Would be nice to have access as well.

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**Author:** ![pieper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pieper/32/8_2.png) [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 6:50pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/google-searches/130/12 "2019-06-04T18:50:27Z")

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Good question @jcfr - I invited your Kitware and gmail accounts to the google search console site.

I didn’t dig deep into all the options, but here’s some summary info - the top is http and the bottom is https, so clearly the http traffic has been cut to almost nothing in the last year or so.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/slicer/original/3X/2/3/23000ca24b9ac7d796fb0e09914fe4ab3edc9e13.png)  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/slicer/original/3X/6/0/607fac8c0e4fd278a0826db29fa4786b3a79ef37.png)