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Problem with SMF and SEO

Discussion in 'vBulletin' started by ~kev~, Jan 20, 2009.

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    SMF Version: 2.0 Beta 4

    While looking through the pages of my sons site that google has indexed, I am seeing this over and over.


    Google is not seeing the actual thread content. If you want to take a look for yourself, here is the command to enter into google. site:www.fortresstraining.com/forum/

    Its page after page of



    I need google to see the content of the thread, not the welcome guest msg. How do I fix this problem?? I am never going to rank well in search engines with google seeing "welcome guest" over and over again.

    In just a few threads google has indexed the title, and then some of the content of the thread. I would say google has indexed "welcome guest" on about 90% of my forums content.

    A site map has not been installed. When I try to install one, I get errors and my site crashes.

    The site in question is my sons computer gaming site.
     
    ~kev~, Jan 20, 2009 IP
  2. Bendo

    Bendo Peon

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    #2
    As you haven't searched for any specific words, it's just using some of the first text it finds on the page, in reality people are going to use proper words when searching so it doesn't really matter.
     
    Bendo, Jan 20, 2009 IP
  3. touchAshley

    touchAshley Active Member

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    #3
    Exactly. For example, if you google FF Pyro push, you get a summary of actual content. But if you use "site:" to look at his pages indexed, it's just showing the top text of the site.

    There's no problem here :)

    Since I'm already here, I might as well suggest some mods that are helpful for the seo of smf.

    Tell your son to upload a robots.txt file:

    
User-agent: *
Disallow: /*sort=*
Disallow: /*msg*
Disallow: /index.php?action=activate
Disallow: /index.php?action=admin
Disallow: /index.php?action=calendar
Disallow: /index.php?action=emailuser
Disallow: /index.php?action=findmember
Disallow: /index.php?action=help
Disallow: /index.php?action=helpadmin
Disallow: /index.php?action=login
Disallow: /index.php?action=mlist
Disallow: /index.php?action=modifykarma
Disallow: /index.php?action=pm
Disallow: /index.php?action=post
Disallow: /index.php?action=printpage
Disallow: /index.php?action=profile
Disallow: /index.php?action=recent
Disallow: /index.php?action=register
Disallow: /index.php?action=reminder
Disallow: /index.php?action=search
Disallow: /index.php?action=theme
Disallow: /index.php?action=unread
Disallow: /index.php?action=unreadreplies
Disallow: /index.php?action=verificationcode
Disallow: /index.php?action=who
Disallow: /index.php?action=stats
Disallow: /index.php?theme
Disallow: /index.php?*;wap
Disallow: /index.php?*;wap2
Disallow: /index.php?*;imode
    Code (markup):
    Use the vBulletin Style Meta Tags mod.
    Use the Sitemap mod and submit the sitemap to google webmaster tools.
     
    touchAshley, Jan 21, 2009 IP
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  4. RectangleMan

    RectangleMan Notable Member

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    #4
    Wow...did you change something because if not..that's F'd up because your site looks fine. Does SMF have setting for Google maybe? I know mybb has the ability to give bots permissions and in Google Webmaster Tools you can assign them a member login even.
     
    RectangleMan, Jan 24, 2009 IP
  5. Bendo

    Bendo Peon

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    Did you read the posts above?

    As for giving bots different permissions to guests, thats a good way to get removed from Googles listings, guests should see the same content as search engine bots.
     
    Bendo, Jan 25, 2009 IP
  6. armybase

    armybase Peon

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    thanks for the info guys , I also thougt just like @ts did , perhaps i just doing something wrong with my new forum, powered by SMF.
     
    armybase, Jan 25, 2009 IP
  7. ~kev~

    ~kev~ Well-Known Member

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    #7

    Was this question directed towards me? If so, I migrated my sons site to VB last week. So the google search results might show a mixture of the new VB URLs and the old SMF urls.
     
    ~kev~, Jan 26, 2009 IP
  8. JelleVDB

    JelleVDB Peon

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    VB is the way to go... I would ditch SMF
     
    JelleVDB, Jan 26, 2009 IP
  9. Lazybuttons

    Lazybuttons Active Member

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    #9
    Invision Power Board has all sorts of well coded SEO mods.
     
    Lazybuttons, Jan 27, 2009 IP
  10. Mr.wCruiser

    Mr.wCruiser Active Member

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    #10
    i have one dout

    I have my forum in www.XXXXXXX.com/forum/ {here}
    So where should i upload my robot.txt

    One more thing
    I have some other addon domains on the same host to .. so other domian com in the same dirctory just as forum
    for example
    www.XXXXXXX.com/(here)/

    So where should that robot.txt go ...
    ANd do i need to chagne any ting in that .htaccess ??
     
    Mr.wCruiser, Feb 5, 2009 IP
  11. touchAshley

    touchAshley Active Member

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    #11
    Put just one robots.txt in the root (www.example.com/robots.txt)

    Since your foum is in't in the root, you'd do your robots.txt file like this:

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /*sort=*
    Disallow: /*msg*
    Disallow: /forum/index.php?action=activate
    Disallow: /forum/index.php?action=admin

    etc.
    But yes, the robots.txt goes in the root.
     
    touchAshley, Feb 5, 2009 IP
  12. Mr.wCruiser

    Mr.wCruiser Active Member

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    #12
    Thanks for the info .
    One more dout
    Should i put only what u gave or all in the above with a prefix of /forum/ ?
     
    Mr.wCruiser, Feb 5, 2009 IP
  13. touchAshley

    touchAshley Active Member

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    All of the above with the prefix of /forum/
     
    touchAshley, Feb 6, 2009 IP