How many pages does your forum have in Google?
 

I just checked - my private forums now has:

Results 1 - 10 of about 51,300. Search took 0.37 seconds.

:cool:

How do I check? Do I just type in the domain?

Yep N9ne

Results 1 - 10 of about 2,960. Search took 0.21 seconds

1 - 10 von ungef?hr 18,900. Suchdauer: 0.19

:)

vb.org of course :)

You type in this in the Google search box:

yourdomain site:yourdomain.com

And search that. :)

For example, doing this for vBulletin.org:

vbulletin site:vbulletin.org

Gave us:

Results 1 - 10 of about 26,500. Search took 0.20 seconds.

:)

damn, why do you get more results than me with same query? :( :( ^^

I see, well I had my forums closed to guests and they've been gone for 2/3 weeks now so I won't be in google anymore with that (I got or at least google tried to spider me everyday, so now they notice it's a page not found, they'll remove me).

well then mine was wrong....

only lost a few hundred

Results 1 - 10 of about 2,850. Search took 0.46 seconds

8,390, if I did it right.

1 - 10 of about 254. Search took 0.05 seconds

:( :disappointed:

I'm proud to say I have zero.

Every page there is and that is 12 pages..

Results 1 - 10 of about 18,000. Search took 0.24 seconds.

Results 1 - 10 of about 522. Search took 0.35 seconds.

not sure, but I had ikomi or what ever its called indexing my site for about 2 weeks with an avg of 51 to 300 bots ;) not sure how many searches that is,

but I get #1 on google if you type pixelfx :)

I get 1 through 5 if I type accordtuner :classic:

vbulletin site:accordtuner.com = 1-2 of 2 so I have all of them, heh...

Results 1 - 3 of about 21. Search took 0.15 seconds

How do i get more ?

Hmm, google is very quick at spidering. My new forum which isn't 'open' yet has already been spidered and put into google, kinda quick.

Results 1 - 10 of about 723.

Not to bad for a 6 month old site.

I prefer this syntax

allinurl: vbulletin.org

I have 3... and none of them are for my forums. My forum is completely locked down, but I still get guests. Weird that the forum isn't there.

Results 1 - 10 of about 1,960. Search took 0.18 seconds

Hmmm:p

Thats DarkBlazes;)

Both of my other sites do not appear (as they aren't public yet:p)

Satan

Results 1 - 10 of about 5,380. Search took 0.28 seconds

No, use this:

accordtuner site:accordtuner.com

When I did it, I got this:

Results 1 - 10 of about 75

:)

Remember, the format is:

yourdomain site:yourdomain.com

Using that syntax gives you a smaller number.

For example, let's use:

accordtuner.com

as an example.

With your method, I could only get:

1 - 4 of about 51

Using my method, I got a lot more.



Also, with my private forums, using your method, I got:

Results 1 - 10 of about 50,200

Using my method, I got:

Results 1 - 10 of about 51,000



The method I use is a method that a few SEO's posted at a SEO forum a few years ago where I used to moderate. :)

Results 1 - 10 of about 1,570. Search took 0.21 seconds.

FFDiscovery.com: Results 1 - 10 of about 561. Search took 0.23 seconds.

FFRepublic.com: Results 1 - 10 of about 164. Search took 0.12 seconds.

Hmmm...only got 46 for my site and none of them are the forums themselves. I allow guests to view my forums so I wonder what's wrong?

Actually, Dave, I have to admit that I may be wrong.

Right now, if I use this format for my private forums:

domainname.com site:domainname.com

I get:

Results 1 - 10 of about 52,700

However, using your method:

allinurl: domainname.com

I get:

Results 1 - 10 of about 53,100

So your method is at the moment giving me more pages. :)

Bottom line: Try both methods and take both figures as they are.

If you are using vB2 still, that's the problem. Without using a SE-friendly hack to change your URLs the Google spider won't spider your pages, basically because of the sessionhashes.

It's better in vB3, where sessionhashes are automatically disabled for Google.

For my forums, I am using vB3 with my very own SE-URL hack, and I've disabled sessionhashes completely.

We're building slowly...

Results 1 - 10 of about 14. Search took 0.38 seconds

775 :p

Results 1 - 10 of about 80. Search took 0.21 seconds

Thanks Erwin. That's what I thought. I'm waiting for a final style before upgrading to vB3.

Results 1 - 10 of about 3,890. Search took 0.18 seconds

that's pretty lame :-|

No, that's lame. :ermm:

1 - 6 von ungef?hr 8. Suchdauer: 0.21 Sekunden.

Results 1 - 6 of about 846. Search took 0.25 seconds
Results 1 - 10 of about 787. Search took 0.14 seconds

:D

allinurl is how google recommends testing . . .

<a href="http://somethingleet.com" target="_blank">http://somethingleet.com</a> - Results 1 - 10 of about 4,650. Search took 0.30 seconds.

we used to be #1 when you searched for 'leet'. now we're #2. :/