This is my first post here so plz be nice... jk. Im running Vbulletin along with VBSEO 3.2.0 & Google/Yahoo Sitemap generator 2.2. Im starting to see a trend wit my position in the search engines. My Forum is averaging 50 new threads per day & I see 4-5 google spiders whenever i check. My question is.... Why on some days my new content get indexed within an hour and the next day ....google will be on my site all day and wont index the new content? Should I set my sitemap a certain way...or log into my webmaster tool and adjust something? Plz help... this is very confusing to me. Google spider will stay on the same 10 threads i posted months ago..they will leave, come back and go to the post they left hours ago...not even visiting the new content. Depending on what is posted by my members..i usually rank pretty high in google but on some days google will index my homepage or the thread instead of the post....Is there anyway i can stop this? Today for example.....i posted a new topic 2 hours before a site that sells the same item as i do and they are already indexed & i havent been indexed at all for this post, However google indexed my homepage instead. When i search for this topic......I see my forum homepage and not the post and im on the 4th page and my competitor is in the #1 slot!!!! UNREAL! How can i stop google from indexing my homepage and forumdisplay pages and just index the Show Thread so i can rank higher?? Thanks for the help
I appreciate all input & im always eager to learn. Thanks for the reply. 9 times out of 10 i rank higher in the engines than he does but from time to time google refuses to index my post and give higher priority(i think) to the forumdisplay which i prefer them not to.