vBulletin Google indexing problems

Hi

I have a vBulletin forum with 3700 threads, but it isn't properly indexed by Google. It also has an archive, I installed vBSEO, I submitted a text file with most URLs to Google Sitemaps, yet only about 370 pages seem to be indexed, of which very few actual forum threads.

Could you please help me with some suggestions as to what is wrong or what else I could do about it?

Thank you very much!

 

Get more links, it also depends on how strong your page is and it takes time until your whole forum is indexed.

 

mod_rewrite the url of the threads..

 

He already got vbSEO installed.

 

Thanks for the replies.

The vBulletin forum has been installed (over a previous phpBB forum) for about 7 months so it should have been indexed by now.
The main forum page has PR4 (main site PR5). This is fairly strong, I think.

I suppose vBSEO was properly installed. How could I know if it wasn't?

 

Check the links for keywords and pretty URLs. Posting the forum URL would make investigating easier

 

The forum link is www.astrologyweekly.com/forum . What does "check the links for keywords and pretty URLs" actually mean?

 

google aint being blocked via robots.txt is it?

 

It's not SEOed at all and vBSEO is not installed.

A vbSEO URL: musiker-board.de/vb/f9-e-gitarren-modelle/
A URL from your forum: astrologyweekly.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=42

See the difference?

 

I know he has installed it.But it seems that he hasn't mod_rewrite the urls.

 

I actually installed some free addons from www.vBulletin.org: vBSEO sitemap generator and vRewrite (for 3.5.3, my forum is 3.5.4). I suppose these aren't good enough.
Should I buy vBseo from www.vbseo.com which costs $149 in order to have the urls modified?

Btw, the DP forum does just fine on SE without any urls modifications...

 

You could do that with .htaccess file..(mod_rewrite)
Like the urls of threads on http://www.v7n.com/forums/
You can see that the url of the thread is like:http://www.v7n.com/forums/***.html
Yup,it's a static file.Do a search on Google and you'll know how to do.

 

You can't just use a htaccess file for vBulletin. It's more complex than that.
Try this one, it's free and does URL Rewriting correctly:
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=127336&highlight=zoints

 

You don't need mod_rewrite to get indexed properly.
My forums are indexed great without it, even a forum that's almost 2 months old.
Get quality backlinks to your site, submit a sitemap.

 

Backlinks, more backlinks and backlinks is the only answer man.
Forget about url mod_rewrite for vb, its already seo optimized, I bet on that.

 

Ok, thanks. The weird thing is that not even the archive pages are indexed.

Anyway, I'll try resubmitting and getting more backlinks.

Thanks for the help.