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| ColinMI |
Posted - 09 July 2008 : 08:59:36
We have recently re-developed our web site and have a snitz forum integrated into it. We have had it online for about 10 weeks and have come to the conclusion it isn't being found by search engines.
I am not a developer but would appreciate some feedback that I could arm myself when talking to our developer, I'm not too sure he understands the forum entirely. We really need to drive traffic to our web site and we see the forum as a major factor in bringing people to our site - It needs to be found though!
Our web site is www.millionimpossible.com, any help would be appreciated. you can contact me by e mail colin@millionimpossible.com or by telephone on (UK) 0845 468 5000< |
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| ruirib |
Posted - 09 July 2008 : 12:34:42
Well, glad that you guys went there. I should have done it before posting  .< |
| bobby131313 |
Posted - 09 July 2008 : 12:33:26
Yep, your design basically has the entire forum cloaked. It almost looks like someone went out of their way to hide it.
All your forum pages (which are in a forum folder) are in a query string....
http://www.millionimpossible.com/forum.asp?page=/forum/topic.asp&qs=TOPIC_ID=261
Then that whole page is wrapped up and hidden in a frame! Either one of these tactics by itself is not very good for SEO, and you've got them stacked one inside the other.
If you want to get indexed, I'm sorry to say it's an extremely poor design.< |
| weeweeslap |
Posted - 09 July 2008 : 12:04:02
I've had problems before getting websites that are in iframes getting indexed, spidered, etc. Typically a forum when set up, usually the same day that you place a link elsewhere, like you did in the topic here, get's found the same day and starts coming up search engine results the same day you add such link. I am no coding expert or anything like that but I suspect that the iframe could be causing the problem since I've had problems with iframes before.< |
| ruirib |
Posted - 09 July 2008 : 09:05:43
If you have a link to the forum in your website, it will be found. There usually no need to do anything. If the search engines cannot follow the forum link, then it's another issue altogether...
At least for Google, there is a sitemap mod that can be added and it can help the forum being indexed. It also allows additions to include other non forum locations in the sitemap. Can be an option.< |
