vBulletin SEO problem

Discussion in 'SEO' started by kartik786, Aug 14, 2006.

  1. #1
    My Site is 2 and a half yr old. The vbulletin forum is 8 months old. It has more than 20k posts, 5k threads and 5k members.

    It has a PR 4 . Still my forum pages are not indexed in google.

    I See spider guests on forum everyday, but those pages are JUST NOT GETTING INDEXED.

    Any way to get all of them indexed ??
     
    kartik786, Aug 14, 2006 IP
  2. smfseo

    smfseo Well-Known Member

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    whats the url may be i can help as i have a few vb forums aswell
     
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  3. sarahk

    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    If it's domainfaq - what did you do to the template? I've used the orange one in two different systems and it's great. Yours is mucked up in firefox.

    And have you got 7 lots of adsense on that page?
     
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    frankcow Well-Known Member

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    are you using the vbSEO plugin?
     
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  5. kartik786

    kartik786 Well-Known Member

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    Domainfaq.net is just for Pass Time.

    I am talking about my MBA ONLINE forum site :)

    I dont use vbSEO plugin but I use a similar vBrewrite which makes the url user friendly.

    Any idea why forum pages are not indexed on google ?
     
    kartik786, Aug 14, 2006 IP
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    frankcow Well-Known Member

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    when i mouseover the links, i see the sessionid in the URL, that can be affecting it
     
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  7. sarahk

    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    Hmmmm, first thoughts: you have a link at the bottom of the page with massive anchor text. That won't be helping, break it into several smaller links.

    You have your CSS on the page and not in a separate file, vB allows that

    Your meta tags are spammy as anything.

    Good catch on the sessions, that will kill it!
     
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  8. kartik786

    kartik786 Well-Known Member

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    As you might have realised by now after seeing the forum, I am not a webmaster.

    Can ne1 tell me how to get those sessionids etc cleaned and any other tricks so that those pages are indexed ?
     
    kartik786, Aug 14, 2006 IP
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    jward Active Member

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    If the session IDs are not being removed, the URL rewrite will be almost completely ineffective for SEO purposes.
     
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  10. kartik786

    kartik786 Well-Known Member

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    Oh the vbSEO guru himself is here. Any idea how to remove the session IDs ?
     
    kartik786, Aug 17, 2006 IP
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    jward Active Member

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    Well, if you plan to continue using your existing rewrite, you should contact the developers to request a critical bug fix.

    Otherwise, you should consider the vBSEO solution.
     
    jward, Aug 17, 2006 IP
  12. kartik786

    kartik786 Well-Known Member

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    I thought about that, but then dropped the idea because I m not a web designer and if there is a problem in my vbulletin, while I m uninstalling the vbrewrite and installing vbseo, it will affect studies of thousands of management students.
     
    kartik786, Aug 17, 2006 IP
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    jward Active Member

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    That is a reasonable concern. FYI We have a dedicated professional support team.
     
    jward, Aug 22, 2006 IP