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Comment on Google Not Indexing SMF (Simple Machines Forum) Topic Pages by stebal4

stebal4 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:52:28 +0000

Couple of months on and I’m still having the same problems I’m afraid. I also tried blocking bots from reading and indexing member profiles (which are indexed no problem) in hope it would turn their attention to the posts but no joy. I have decided that I am going to wait for the final version of SMF 2.0 to be released and install over the current forum. Hopefully it will have some better url rewriting, if not I’ll go back to using phpBB.

Comment on Google Not Indexing SMF (Simple Machines Forum) Topic Pages by Steven Smethurst

Steven Smethurst — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:18:28 +0000

I been having the same problem as you.
I tried using mod_rewrite but it doesn’t seem to help.
I just added the Google site map mod to my forums. Did it resolve the problem for you?

Any other suggestions?

Comment on Google Not Indexing SMF (Simple Machines Forum) Topic Pages by Daryl

Daryl — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:01:05 +0000

I’ve been having exactly the same problem on an install at work. I’ve gone down the same road you have. One thing Google Webmasters is showing is a lot of PHP session variables. To get around this I’m currently trying the ini_set fix from this thread:
http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-15288.html
Only just implemented so will wait a month to see what happens.

Comment on Are HTML Meta Descriptions Still Worth Writing? by Steve Pratley

Steve Pratley — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:06:14 +0000

There are 2 issue with meta descriptions, 1 is what the search engine reads, and I think with a well constructed page they become useless. e.g.:

http://www.stephenpratley.com/seo-theme-for-cubecart/

The other is what Google displays in it’s SERPs when no description is found. Being able to write a description that entices a higher CTR is probably the biggest benefit.

Comment on Are HTML Meta Descriptions Still Worth Writing? by Phil Hancox

Phil Hancox — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:32:08 +0000

I personally think there’s more benefit to taking the couple of seconds writing the metas than removing them altogether, particularly when you remember that Google isn’t the only SE out there and other SEs do factor in the meta descriptions. It doesn’t take any time at all to write (particularly if they’re dynamically generated) and is one of the many little things you can do to optimise your site. Not a big thing by any means, but there’s more benefit than harm by using them.

Comment on Tricking Google into Ranking Your Website Higher by TVSpy

TVSpy — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:50:33 +0000

Interesting thanks for sharing, but note that the google url that all links are routed through serve two purposes:

1) To stop other search engines from spidering google serps and indexing those sites via Google (google doesn’t want to share its database of sites)

2) To identify user traffic patterns, which definitely are being used for something - not necessarily rankings. But I think it generates a unique url for each search. The urls don’t seem to be the same on each search, so you would need to get the source of the serp page with your sitename - parse the code and get the url and then append it showing it as a home link. That would be the most reliable way of doing this - but if they’re showing urls based on the ip used to access it - it would probably only show all those clicks/stats under the ip of your server that is accessing it.

Comment on bal4.co.uk – Steven Balfour’s Portfolio and Blog by stebal4

stebal4 — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:51:56 +0000

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