How to Configure SEO Settings For Your Webpages
After you have created your help site in ProProfs Knowledge Base, you need to enable SEO to get it indexed so that the web pages can be crawled and it can appear in the search results. This help article shows a step-by-step guide on how users can index their help site using the SEO options in the ProProfs Knowledge Base.
Here is how indexing helps to get your website in the top search results pages:
Indexing your help site allows the search engine to easily locate your help site over the web and show it in the search results for a relevant search term.
In this article, you will learn:
How to Get Your Help Site Indexed
To get your help site indexed fast, you need to optimize it according to the search engines. You will need to enable SEO settings in the ProProfs Knowledge Base. For this
Step 1: Go to Settings > Configure in your ProProfs Knowledge Base editor.
Step 2: On the Configure page
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Switch to the SEO tab.
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Check in the “Turn On SEO” option.
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Click Save.
How to crawl your web pages
Step 1: In the ProProfs Knowledge Base page editor, click 
Step 2: In the page settings
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Switch to the Basic tab.
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Check the “Allow page to be crawled by search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing)” option and enter the meta description to be shown on SERP(Search engine results page).
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Click Save.
How to Enable Bulk SEO
In the ProProfs Knowledge Base,
Step 1: Go to View > View Pages.
Step 2: Check “Select All” and click Edit.
Step 3: Click Update to apply the changes.
How to Generate the Site Map
Step 1: Go to Settings > Configure.
Step 2: On the Configure page
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Switch to the SEO tab.
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Check in the “Turn On SEO” option.
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Navigate to Sitemap and click “Regenerate”
The new sitemap will be generated.
How to Submit the sitemap
After you have generated your sitemap, you need to submit it for indexing so that your help pages can be crawled and shown in the search engines such as Google, bing, and yahoo. To submit your sitemap, you can use either the Google Search Console or the Bing Webmaster
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Follow this guide for setting up Google Webmaster
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Follow this guide for setting up Bing Webmaster
SEO results
After your sitemap has been submitted for indexing, it depends on the search engine on how long it takes to index the page so the crawler can crawl the webpage and displays the page in the search results.
To check if the page is indexed or not, simply go to site:docs.mysite.com (replace with the real URL to your site). This will list all the pages which are indexed.
Best Practices for Making Your Help Site SEO friendly
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Make page URLs descriptive: Search engines prefer site URLs that are readable to humans. For example, if you have a page URL: docs.mysite.com/3revision, you can see this URL makes little sense and does not help humans or search engines know what the page is about. The better URL is docs.mysite.com/an-article-about-revision-3, which is friendly because you can figure out what the page is about.
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Make page titles descriptive: When you create a page in ProProfs, you will provide a page title. The page title is also used by search engines when listing the page in the search results. A desirable title is 50-60 characters long and contains keywords about the page's content.
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Think about your keywords: Keywords are an integral part of SEO. If you fail to include relevant keywords in your content, the search engines may never find it. Keywords should be used in your page title, headings (h1-h6), main body content, URLs, and image names with ALT tags.
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Page content: Content is king and having good content is key to getting pages to appear in the search engines.
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Page links: Search engines use hyperlinks to crawl your entire site. Adding links pointing to other ProProfs pages makes it easy for each engine to crawl from one page to the next. Don't worry about links to pages that you don't want the index. ProProfs will automatically remove links to pages that have SEO disabled.
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Canonical Tag: A canonical tells search engines that a specific URL represents the master copy of the page. Using the canonical tag prevents problems caused by identical or duplicate content appearing on multiple URLs. The canonical tag tells search engines which version of a URL you want to appear in search results.
- CallOut Extensions: Callout extensions let you include the additional text for displaying more detailed information about your business, products, and services. Callout extensions can be added to search network campaigns that have opted into the display network.
That is all about configuring SEO settings for your help pages.