How does the related topics widget work?

Well that’s a bummer. As we do not want to archive all that content (due to SEO reasons) at this point… Thanks for your quick answer @bjoern_schulze !

You could archive it but still leave it findable on Google. The options for “Hide from platform search” and “deindex, nofollow” are separate. So you could create an archive category that is hidden from the platform search but not hidden from google. But maybe hiding it from the platform search is also not a good option for your usecase.

You could also think of a two-level archiving of old content: A set of archive categories which are still indexed via Google and/or in community search for content you still regard somewhat relevant, and for the really old content a single category which is hidden for everything (only users going to that category can still search within this archive then).

Besides a feature request to optionally toggle individual / batch process a set of topics to be hidden from search or this specific widget, I would not know what could solve this exact use case, unfortunately.

Thanks to you @bjoern_schulze and your comment from yesterday, that’s exactly what I’m considering! 

And @Julian, what an amazing idea! We’re weighing out options and their SEO effects, so this could probably be the best option for us...

Hi @Julian does the related topic widget show topics from the same plateforme (ie : KB or Community) or does it mix different plateforme content (KB and Community)?

Thanks

Hi,

the related topics widget shows content from both KB and community, it does not make a distinction here. Do you have a need for such a distinction? If so, let us know more so we can understand better what you’d like to achieve with a setting or filter for this.

Hi Julian,

Thanks for the answer. Having both KB and community mixed here creates sort of a confusion for the end user. When reading a topic in the knowledge base, you kind of expect to have associated topics that have the right answer / are validated as “You can trust this content”

When browsing on the KB part of our community, should not have to wonder if the associated topic is a Knowledge base article (they can trust) or an open topic (that might not bring them the answer).
 

hello all, is the “curated content” widget no longer available? 
 

Hi ​@beatriz.winn - The Curated Content widget is still available.  You should still be able to find it and set it up in the category configuration page.