Hi Guys.. Themes that generate open graph might need to be disabled on the forum page. Use a totally blank forum page with a small featured image.
I have found that Yoast is applying open graph data to the main forum page. Unfortunately open graph takes precedence over meta tags as in (title and description.) This has more to do with social sharing than anything else.
Here is my forum page settings.
And simple press seo settings.
yes, if you dont want the open graph tags, you will have to remove them via hooks for the specific plugin… wp seo provides these hooks…
in the next version of simple press 5.5.9 due any week now (just waiting on wp 5.5.9), we will have options for adding our own open graph tags…
How is the alt tags project going? Not trying to be a pita but this forum will be greatly improved when it pleases Google.
alt tags??? not sure I follow… do you mean open graph tags?
done and ready for release… running here in fact…
Reboot theme images alt tags. You said they were there, just blank. Andy was supposed to be tasked to do it.
SEO is critical to get forum pages well indexed. Good to hear the og is ready. That will solve a lot of social sharing problems.
not sure reboot has anything to do with blank image alt tags… but this was corrected in core… and ready for release..
Correct – theme independent. I am not promising that EVERY image will have an alt tag but we should have caught most of them hopefully.
Glad to hear the alt meta has been corrected too. Look forward to the next release.
I done figured it out that keeping up with Google’s increasing demands is rewarded with accelerated page ranking.
With that being said, would it be possible to add support for rich text? http://microformats.org/wiki/hentry
I fully admot to not being geek about these things like SEO and Open Graph (although now I have written in support for that at least I know what it is for!) bit what on earth needs hentry? Is there no end to this madness!
Hi Andy..
Henrty is post specific Structured Data AKA Rich Snippet Data specific to a post, page, category, or tag. It is mostly theme specific for WordPress sites. Here is more info.
Here is a link to the testing tool. If a site / theme does not have hentry data it will not show up in the tool. But if it’s there and has errors they will show. This is testing a blog post.
Hentry errors are also shown in your Webmaster Tools dashboard under search appearance > structured data.
Ain’t this fun!
Email me if you need help understanding this. I’m always glad to help out. 
microformats are currently not supported and it remains that way in upcoming 5.5.9… though some consideration has been given to supporting… varying feelings on the value, especially on a topic view page with many posts… but the microformat standards have continued to evolve so it may be better equipped to handle since last time I looked…