There is no set time. It took google about a month to crawl mine and another month for them to actually show up on google. Others have had theirs crawled days after they installed this hack. Just be patient.

>>You need to submit your archive to google et all.

NO! Don't ever submit anything to Google. It will rank you higher if it finds you on it's own. Make sure you get other sites to link to yours and let the spider come naturally. To have your archive is listed, make sure it is linked FROM YOUR HOME PAGE. Even a small link is fine.

Thanks, Teck.. Dance, Google, Dance! I'm getting listed..

that's good to know. thanks for the tip!

I have the GoogleDeepCrawler on our forum right now. I'm wondering if I should add forumdisplay.php and showthread.php to the robots.txt as I don't know what Google will think if it spiders the forum and archive, finding the same content. Could drop one or the other. What has everyone else done with successful listings in Google?

Just to let you know that Google's Freshie and DeepCrawler come in on different IPs:

So you're saying DeepCrawlers identify with "crawl#" and FreshCrawlers idenfity with "crawler#"? Thanks, good info.

>>I'm wondering if I should add forumdisplay.php and showthread.php to the robots.txt as I don't know what Google will think if it spiders the forum and archive, finding the same content.

I don't think so.. while they contain some of the same content, they are in different formats.. which should equal different content to the spider.

I see you had success and have your archive set up like mine. Did google's bots hit your forum and archive? Do you have showthread.php listed in your robots.txt?

WOW, PR7! What was your page rank before you messed with the archive? Due to our server move and new site, our dropped to 5 from 6 - not happy. :(

Looks like you're getting slammed:

Currently Active Users (977):450 members, 489 guests, and 38 web robots

I take it you have your own server. :D

/me blushes at mention of his 7" PR

Google has just started digesting the archive. I started getting hits in from it a day or two ago so I'm not sure it has affected the PageRank yet. I'm not even sure the archive has been listed fully in Google, we may be in for the short dance right now, to be re-added later.

>>Did google's bots hit your forum and archive? Do you have showthread.php listed in your robots.txt?

Google has always gotten some of the posts since they are linked from the front page, then it finds the forums. It never got into the deepcrawl of the archive though. Funny, as I think I was the first person to release a vB archive hack that lots of people still use successfully... but I never linked mine from my front page so it was never picked up. Only when I saw Teck's was I inspired to get it working and linked.

But oh yea, no, I don't have anything special listed in robots.txt

>>38 web robots, I take it you have your own server.

hehe those robots have been here for weeks. Only in the past few days have I had some really high guest numbers. Usually members / guests is even. Now I have a hundred or more guests on than members thanks to the archive. Hopefully they are getting into the rest of the site as well.