Forums aren't indexed? How to tell?

Discussion in 'SEO' started by yfzcentral, Aug 21, 2006.

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    yfzcentral, Aug 21, 2006 IP
  2. Nintendo

    Nintendo ♬ King of da Wackos ♬

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  3. corinaw

    corinaw Not Banned

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    I looked at your sites and:
    http://www.yfzcentral.com/invision has about 20 pages indexed

    http://www.z400central.com/invision has about 52 pages indexed

    http://www.lt-r450central.com/invision has about 4 pages indexed.

    Considering the size/qty of posts of your forums, I’d be concerned with the lack of indexed pages too.

    I see you have session id’s attached to the urls in 2 of the forums. The se’s choke on session id’s, you should present a clean and static (unique) url for them to crawl your site.

    I recommend you search for a mod to remove the session id for at least for guest users viewing (and the bots crawling). I use phpbb, and found a seo mod to clean up my forum urls, hopefully invision has something similar. There were other issues (from a seo standpoint) that impacted my phpbb forum, such as multiple url paths to the same content that I was able to fix with my mod.

    I searched for an authority stating the issue with session ids, and found info here:
    http://mattcutts.com/blog/guest-post-vanessa-fox-on-organic-site-review-session/

    (the ed note below is from matt cutts, not me :) )

    "* Minimize the number of redirects and URL parameters [Ed. Note: I’d keep it to 1-2 parameters if possible]. And don’t use “&id=” in the URL for anything other than a session ID. Since it generally is a session ID, we treat it as such and usually don’t include those URLs in the index."

    Good luck!
     
    corinaw, Aug 21, 2006 IP
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    Ya..... Session ID's will Harm you al lot.....

    Try to Rempve Session ID's & get Good Back links for your Sub forums to get indexed
     
    gudly, Aug 21, 2006 IP
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    It may be a good idea to make all pages of your forums static.
    There are may be some problems with dymamic urls and sessions
     
    ystoredesign, Aug 23, 2006 IP
  6. yfzcentral

    yfzcentral Peon

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    How do I do this?

    I don't see the session ID in firefox, but I do in IE.
     
    yfzcentral, Aug 24, 2006 IP