SMF Version: 2.0 Beta 4 While looking through the pages of my sons site that google has indexed, I am seeing this over and over. Google is not seeing the actual thread content. If you want to take a look for yourself, here is the command to enter into google. site:www.fortresstraining.com/forum/ Its page after page of I need google to see the content of the thread, not the welcome guest msg. How do I fix this problem?? I am never going to rank well in search engines with google seeing "welcome guest" over and over again. In just a few threads google has indexed the title, and then some of the content of the thread. I would say google has indexed "welcome guest" on about 90% of my forums content. A site map has not been installed. When I try to install one, I get errors and my site crashes. The site in question is my sons computer gaming site.
As you haven't searched for any specific words, it's just using some of the first text it finds on the page, in reality people are going to use proper words when searching so it doesn't really matter.
Exactly. For example, if you google FF Pyro push, you get a summary of actual content. But if you use "site:" to look at his pages indexed, it's just showing the top text of the site. There's no problem here Since I'm already here, I might as well suggest some mods that are helpful for the seo of smf. Tell your son to upload a robots.txt file: User-agent: * Disallow: /*sort=* Disallow: /*msg* Disallow: /index.php?action=activate Disallow: /index.php?action=admin Disallow: /index.php?action=calendar Disallow: /index.php?action=emailuser Disallow: /index.php?action=findmember Disallow: /index.php?action=help Disallow: /index.php?action=helpadmin Disallow: /index.php?action=login Disallow: /index.php?action=mlist Disallow: /index.php?action=modifykarma Disallow: /index.php?action=pm Disallow: /index.php?action=post Disallow: /index.php?action=printpage Disallow: /index.php?action=profile Disallow: /index.php?action=recent Disallow: /index.php?action=register Disallow: /index.php?action=reminder Disallow: /index.php?action=search Disallow: /index.php?action=theme Disallow: /index.php?action=unread Disallow: /index.php?action=unreadreplies Disallow: /index.php?action=verificationcode Disallow: /index.php?action=who Disallow: /index.php?action=stats Disallow: /index.php?theme Disallow: /index.php?*;wap Disallow: /index.php?*;wap2 Disallow: /index.php?*;imode Code (markup): Use the vBulletin Style Meta Tags mod. Use the Sitemap mod and submit the sitemap to google webmaster tools.
Wow...did you change something because if not..that's F'd up because your site looks fine. Does SMF have setting for Google maybe? I know mybb has the ability to give bots permissions and in Google Webmaster Tools you can assign them a member login even.
Did you read the posts above? As for giving bots different permissions to guests, thats a good way to get removed from Googles listings, guests should see the same content as search engine bots.
thanks for the info guys , I also thougt just like @ts did , perhaps i just doing something wrong with my new forum, powered by SMF.
Was this question directed towards me? If so, I migrated my sons site to VB last week. So the google search results might show a mixture of the new VB URLs and the old SMF urls.
i have one dout I have my forum in www.XXXXXXX.com/forum/ {here} So where should i upload my robot.txt One more thing I have some other addon domains on the same host to .. so other domian com in the same dirctory just as forum for example www.XXXXXXX.com/(here)/ So where should that robot.txt go ... ANd do i need to chagne any ting in that .htaccess ??
Put just one robots.txt in the root (www.example.com/robots.txt) Since your foum is in't in the root, you'd do your robots.txt file like this: User-agent: * Disallow: /*sort=* Disallow: /*msg* Disallow: /forum/index.php?action=activate Disallow: /forum/index.php?action=admin etc. But yes, the robots.txt goes in the root.
Thanks for the info . One more dout Should i put only what u gave or all in the above with a prefix of /forum/ ?