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Not showing up on Google
None of my forum's content is showing up on Google search even though i have turned on search engine spiders to archive the forum.. How can i have my forum become visible on google?
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your robots.txt is blocking your entire site from getting cralwed.
Remove the robots.txt file, or enter the proper settings. Here is a good vBulletin Robots.txt file to use. |
Yesssss.. That should take care of the problem. The old robots.txt file contained this
User-agent: * Disallow: / Disabled everything I used the vbulletin version you gave me, so it should work fine now.. Thanks a million :D |
<font color="slategray">It has been four days since i fixed the robots.txt file, i can see google spiders on my Whos Online board, but none of my threads' content appears on google yet.. I tried searching using the exact title of a thread on my forum and the search returned no results.. Is something wrong here, or does this thing need more time?</font>
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It will take a while. It takes 24-48hrs from the time you fixed it for the search bots to get the new version.
Then you can expect up to 1-3 weeks before you start showing in the results |
If I don't have a robots.txt everything should be listed, right?
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Probably, but it will still take time to be reindexed.
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can you tell me what you mean by black hat tech ?
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Google it!
Black hat techniques are "optimization" methods that if the search engines find out your using you'll get penalized or removed from the indexes. |
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