Something's amiss... any ideas?

Discussion in 'SEO' started by thebassman, May 21, 2005.

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    Over the past several months, the number of pages on my site (www.photographycorner.com) indexed by Google have dropped from 26,000+ to 500+... I'm also noticing that Google is spidering my site a lot less than it used to, despite the fact that traffic is way up. I have, on average, close to 500 posts per day on the site.... tons of stuff for Google to update, yet nothing. Any ideas as to what is going on, or what I can do to "turn the tide"?
     
    thebassman, May 21, 2005 IP
  2. Will.Spencer

    Will.Spencer NetBuilder

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    This happened to one of my sites when I upgraded phpBB and forgot to re-implement the phpBB patch to disable Session ID's for anonymous users.

    Check your includes/sessions.php file.

    
# 
#-----[ OPEN ]------------------------------------------ 
#  

includes/sessions.php 

# 
#-----[ FIND ]------------------------------------------ 
# 

$SID = 'sid=' . $session_id; 

# 
#-----[ REPLACE WITH ]------------------------------------------ 
# 

if ( $userdata['session_user_id'] != ANONYMOUS ){ 
   $SID = 'sid=' . $session_id; 
} else { 
   $SID = ''; 
}
    Code (markup):
     
    Will.Spencer, May 21, 2005 IP
  3. thebassman

    thebassman Asleep at the Keyboard

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    Yeah, I thought that at first, but no SIDs for guests still... that code is still in place..
     
    thebassman, May 21, 2005 IP
  4. Gede

    Gede Peon

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    Ah, maybe Google thinks it allmost all and the same on your forum...

    My suggestion is to create for every vieuwforum.php and viewtopic.php relevant metatags, so each page has something different about it, meta wise spoken.

    Make you pages "fresh" every 2 days or something:

    Change the timestamp of the index.php viewforum.php and viewtopic.php

    Just ftp them to your PC, and put in a // line, save and upload.

    After two days, do the same and remove the line.

    It makes robots and google LOVE your site, and you get some extra ranking as well probably.
     
    Gede, May 21, 2005 IP