Google and forums

Is it me or has google spider gone off forums

They used to love forums like mine and DP (and many more , 20 to 100 at a time all day ) but now they seem to be getting less and less

So is google spiders getting lazy

 

I hope not, that was my next plan of attack!

 

Yeah no complaints here, G seems to be visiting regularly.

 

Nuts must be me

Have no problems with the site: ( after a few changes )

But with the online members view , as there was always 20 odd online at a time

good old yahoo is always there in strenght

edit - Posts: 170,659 and that site: welldone , I must get you drunk one night so you tell me your secrets

 

You can get me drunk and I'll tell you my secrets (some you may not want to know).

 

I wish I had a successful forum like DP ...

Anusha

 

Google is acting up on how it actually lists many vBulletin sites.

For example, site:www.vbulletin.com/forum/
At vbulletin Google says there are over 800,000 pages - but only 80 worth viewing, and all but one of these has no text to accompany the URL.

Looks more like a display issue, though - I run a few vbulletins and Google traffic is fine, so it looks more like a case of the site:command results being a little screwy.

 

I just started writing an article on How to SEO your vBulletin Forum. I actually think google is liking forums a little more as of late. I see more forums ranking higher for various keywords. My google traffic has been normal on my 3 vbulletin forums as of late. Perhaps they have tightened up on some things though.

 

they better not

 

Well if you leave vb as it is from the box then google will not like you as much as it used to . Its just like any other SEO if you do not keep up then you will slide over time

 

Google seems to like my forum, it comes back almost daily, and it only has been live for 2 months.

For SEO I also add a link to it from my homepage and on the footer of all my pages, and added it to as many forum specific directories I could find. (not many)

I also added a page to my website listing the 10 most recent threads, generated automatically similar to what digitalpoint has, for spider food.

I went from PR0 to PR5 in one jump, and it seems to be ranking for some keywords.

 

I'm not sure there's anything screwy necessarily. The reality is that pages on a forum change rapidly and frequently so that as quickly as they get indexed the content can shift.

What you see with the site: query is the number of pages indexed. Typically, on a well-optimized forum, the older pages will become "sticky' in time while the newer ones or those with frequent appends will appear as just the URL...