Hi, I have a wordpress front end with vbulletin forum HERE Google seems to see my sites as 2 separate sites. It lists them as follows when a search is submitted: ducatiforum.co.uk ducatiforum.co.uk/forum I need google to see my site as a single site. I also need it to be optimized for SEO. Important: Not looking at keywords or content creation but more looking at my actual content structure, wordpress SEO and site to be SEO compliant, and things like robots.txt to be setup. I run VBSEO on my vBulletin forum which works well. I have the blog posts in wordpress that are pulled through to the bulletin forum. i know this creates duplicate content and I need this to be fixed (possible via robots.txt.) Please let me know via PM if you are able to help me. Thanks! Rob.
Google does not see subforums as two different sites, what made you think that? Also that isn't a vBulletin front it, it's a wordpress install. (which looks pretty good I might add) My number one suggestions with a quick glance is to add more words to your forum descriptions here, most don't even have anything at all. http://ducatiforum.co.uk/forum/ I'd make each forum description around 150-200 words if possible, it'll make a difference.
Thanks Brendon. Sure, I know it's a Wordpress front end, I mentioned it in the OP thanks for your advice on forum descriptions. Anything else you notice? What about duplicate content from Wordpress to vbulletin (I use the front end as a CMS).
I think I can help you out with what you're looking for, not sure if you'll be happy about the solution (selecting one of the two - Wordpress / Forum to show up in results) but let me know In case you're wondering, there are two ways I can think of that will take care of your problem: one is with robots.txt, the other is making use of canonical relationship between pages. Thanks, Cristian.