bluehash 1,581 Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Hello guys, I'd like some help with seo for this forum. It seems that none of the forum links appear on google. Only blog posts come up. I had some help from Cubeberg(Thanks!) a few weeks back as he had pointed me to it first. It improved, but not for long. I can provide you with info. Just let me know what you need. Edit: replaced xpg by cubeberg.. mistake. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jsolarski-backup 22 Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 do you proveide a site map to google? GeekDoc 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GeekDoc 226 Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 do you proveide a site map to google? That's a big one, right there. :thumbup: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bluehash 1,581 Posted July 28, 2012 Author Share Posted July 28, 2012 Yes.. I also realized that there is no link to the forums in the sitemap. I added that today. PHPbb3 does not have a site map. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cubeberg 540 Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 Have you checked the Google Website Administrator yet? The pages are being found by google, but it's not allowed to index. I'd take the php deny out of the robots.txt and see if that fixes the problem. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bluehash 1,581 Posted July 29, 2012 Author Share Posted July 29, 2012 I'm on google webmaster. 43oh's robots.txt is attached. If you see anything off, let me know. Also, the forum is in a subfolder. The robots.txt is one folder above it. robots.txt Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cubeberg 540 Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 I'd suggest taking out the *.php restriction. I'm wondering if the forum allow (one has a case issue that needs to be corrected) isn't specific enough to override the php denial. You've already blocked the wp directories, so removing the php denial shouldn't cause you any problems. Oh - and google's webmaster tools has information on why URLs aren't being crawled, as well as a robots.txt validator and generator. Might be helpful to compare a generated file based on what you want vs what's in there currently. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cubeberg 540 Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 Try this file. I removed the .php restriction and fixed case on one item. A search on google actually indicates that it's the robots.txt now (that's something they must have added recently). robots.txt bluehash 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bluehash 1,581 Posted September 19, 2012 Author Share Posted September 19, 2012 ok.. updated. Will check by this weekend if it results in any changes. Thanks! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cubeberg 540 Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 Ok - I think I found something else that's a problem. The forum is generating "noindex" meta tags on forum pages. Must be something in the software - maybe a plugin or option? jsolarski-backup, cde, dacoffey and 1 other 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bluehash 1,581 Posted October 10, 2012 Author Share Posted October 10, 2012 Ok - I think I found something else that's a problem. The forum is generating "noindex" meta tags on forum pages. Must be something in the software - maybe a plugin or option? Ok, changed to index. Had a tough time finding it. Lets see how this goes. Thanks Cube. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cubeberg 540 Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 Looks much better! Hopefully that'll clear up in a week or so. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cubeberg 540 Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 It's working already! It'll take some time for everything to be indexed, but it's a start. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bluehash 1,581 Posted October 11, 2012 Author Share Posted October 11, 2012 Ha! I was just checking the same thing right now. Thanks. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SirZusa 34 Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 You should also set some more keywords and a better description: Some more keywords: Motor, Servo, LED, RX/TX, UART, USB, Ethernet, SPI, ISP, Spy-by-wire, SBW, bluetooth, shop, microcontroller, avr, mega, atmega, compiler, Controller, MCU, Board, JTAG, Debugger, Programmer, Embedded, Hardware, Development ... maybe repeat some category-titles You use Google Analytics? It should show you where the users come from and what they were looking for (keywords and searchengines they where using - you can use these for building a pool of keywords) Maybe you also want to use subdomains because Google handles every Subdomain as a own domain (forum.43oh.com, store.43oh.com, etc. ) bluehash 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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