Hello I am new to web design, I have recently been working on getting my forum indexed by google. I used a mod_rewrite to make all of my forum topics static. But the only pages that have been listed are those not affected by the mod_write...here is the url to my indexed pages in google. http://www.google.com/search?q=site:always420forum.com/forum&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&rls=DVFA,DVFA:1970--2,DVFA:en&filter=0 Also, I didn't know weather to put a google sitemap in my root directory or my forum root directory so I put on in both, and submitted both. Is this a bad idea, if so which one should I keep. I appreciate any help I can get in advance...take care! P.S - As long as I have an open thread, my site just had its 1 month birthday. We have had about 1,500 unique visitors, 10,000 page views and 52 members with 510 posts. Considering I had no outside help as far as posting and recruiting, are we off the a good start?
hi, 1. you should keep the sitemap in the forum root directory, anyway i doubt google accepts your xml sitemap from the main root if it includes /forum/* entries 2. there is a mod on phpbb.com which creates an archive with static pages and includes the topic title in the url name, better try that one; it is called phpbb sei good luck