hey guys ok im new to the SEO side of things and not sure where im going wrong or if its just because its a new site. i still have the massive content section to do but for any of the terms juicing for health, or juicing forum im not even coming up in the search engine. any help is appreciated.
I am seeing a whole whole lot of spam indexed: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:juicingforum.co.uk&num=100 You need to keep your forum spam/porn/viagra free. Also I see you are indexed with both the www and non www versions of the site.
yeah i left the site for abit and that happened now im deleting it daily. i dont have some robots file or something somone said?
I get a 404 when I visit http://juicingforum.co.uk/robots.txt ... so no, you have no robots.txt This means there is nothing stopping Google from crawling. Depending on how badly your forum was spammed, it could take a while for the site to regain its trust. Thankfully nothing malicious was found on your site: http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=juicingforum.co.uk *** I would say best course of action is to remove the urls of all pages that hosted spam. You can do this by making sure they return a 404 error, then using the Google webmaster tools url removal tool.
You are welcome Robots.txt .... It is a standard thing to have, but will it help you? Not really... You can read more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard Two main functions: * To block pages or sections of your site, from being visited by Google. * To point to your sitemap.xml file
ahh thanks i dont want the robot.tx then. im going to have to look into to SEO more i mean, the back end bit ive coded is all xhtm/css for layout, semantic markup, w3c valid and so on but i never seem to get great google ratings.
Forum as a frontpage will always struggle with SEO for first few years... Because it is very rarely SEO optimised in terms of keywords. Best bet is to have a normal dedicated/static website/blog, with a forum added onto it as a link from the frontpage. Look at Martins Money Saving expert for example. Lots of useful pages of content, then a forum added on as one of the sections. Cheers
yes mate i was thinking this, is their any easy way i can move it now its installed to /forum easily? Its a SMF forum. as i want the main site page to have the information, article sections that im doing now. thanks again for the help.
Yeah man you should do it... though make sure you spreadsheetize all your important urls now, so you can do a 301 redirect on them all to their new pages. This way you will avoid a 301 dupe content scenario and pass them straight over to their new url. I'm not a SMF expert so you ll have to Google how to actually do the move... might be an option in the admin that does it.
thanks ill take a look into this, will look much better having the information site main page anyway dont know what i was thinking lol.