TheiaCon Event Page not indexed by Google

[brianking]

Describe the bug
Searching Google for 'TheiaCon' yields no results for the official webpage.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to 'https://google.com'
2. Search for 'TheiaCon'

Expected behavior
One of the top results should be for:
https://events.eclipse.org/2021/theiacon/

Additional context
Note this may or may not be happening for other events in the events.eclipse.org domain. I have not tested for others.

[ericpoirier]

Not sure if it's related or not but in the index file of the TheiaCon 2021 event the date is set to 2021-11-17 which is a future date.

https://github.com/EclipseFdn/events.eclipse.org/blob/master/content/2021/theiacon/_index.md?plain=1#L9

@chrisguindon can this have an impact on search results?

Other then that, the meta data looks a lot the same as for the CN4F 2021 website.

[JonasHelming]

When I google for "CN4F 2021" I also do not find the other site

[chrisguindon]

I would not expect the date to impact the search results. The site is configured to publish content in the future: https://github.com/EclipseFdn/events.eclipse.org/blob/master/config.toml#L10

We use the date on this page: https://events.eclipse.org/2021/

[JonasHelming]

Are these pages in your sitemap?

[chrisguindon]

I use the Google sitemap ping tool to see if that will get the page listed on google search results faster:
https://www.google.com/ping?sitemap=https://events.eclipse.org/sitemap.xml

[chrisguindon]

If that does not work, we will need to change our strategy for the date. It's the only thing that I can see that could affect this.