How to optimise vBSEO for vBadvanced homepage and not forum ?

[MonkY]

Hello !

The website i am talking is this. It's my soul project that it's eating my time, money and it's making me crazy lately. No matter what i do, the homepage is hardly (if at all) indexed by google. Instead, vBSEO is sending my /forum pages in front. How can i fix that ?

I have nou my vBadvanced as /index.php and my vBulletin in /forum.
I went into vBSEO Control Panel at Homepage Aliases and changed the order into this:

www.consolegames.ro/
www.consolegames.ro/forum/
www.consolegames.ro/forum/index.php

... but it still doesn't help. I've looked into my urllist.txt.gz and i can't even find www.consolegames.ro. Everywhere i look, every link i see is starting with www.consolegames.ro/forum/.

I am now using vBSEO 3.3, vBSEO Sitemap Generator 2.5 and vbseo_sm_vba.php into my /vbseo_sitemap/addons/ folder. I really don't know what else to do. I want my www.consolegames.ro/index.php to be the first and the most important page. How can i do that ?

Thank you in advance !

[MonkY]

Hmm, as i got no response... i was thinking. Is the problem with not indexing vBadvanced homepage related to the fact that my /.htaccess has nothing inside, while my /forum/.htaccess has this code:

# Comment the following line (add '#' at the beginning)
# to disable mod_rewrite functions.
# Please note: you still need to disable the hack in
# the vBSEO control panel to stop url rewrites.
RewriteEngine On
# Some servers require the Rewritebase directive to be
# enabled (remove '#' at the beginning to activate)
# Please note: when enabled, you must include the path
# to your root vB folder (i.e. RewriteBase /forums/)
#RewriteBase /
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.consolegames\.ro
#RewriteRule (.*) Console Games Forum [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron|vbseo_sitemap)
RewriteRule ^((archive/)?(.*\.php(/.*)?))$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

Don't i have to add something inside my /.htaccess file ? The one in the root ? Again, thank you in advance for your help !

[Shadab]

It looks indexed. See: site:consolegames.ro - Google Search

First result.
And it says the homepage was crawled just 8 hours ago.

[MonkY]

It looks indexed. See: site:consolegames.ro - Google Search

First result.
And it says the homepage was crawled just 8 hours ago.

I think that's because i've added manually in sitemap... but i was hoping that vBSEO will automatically add my www.consolegames.ro/index.php into the sitemap.

I just added now this code into my root .htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !forum/
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !vbseourl=
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ forum/vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&vbseorelpath=../&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !forum/
RewriteRule ^(.*.php)$ forum/vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&vbseorelpath=../&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

and rebuild the sitemap. Now i have all of them like this:

http://www.consolegames.ro/forum/...

I only want my www.consolegames.ro/index.php to be automatically inserted into my sitemap. Although it should be the PRIMARY link and everything else to be related to it... Isn't that what was supposed to be in the sitemap ? Homepage first and everything else after...

[briansol]

you homepage aliases shhould only be

index.php
index.php?

NOT a full domain or path.

[MonkY]

you homepage aliases shhould only be

index.php
index.php?

NOT a full domain or path.

Please excuse me, but i don't understand. In my vBSEO "Define Homepage Aliases" i have:

Define Homepage Aliases
This feature will help consolidate PR (Google PageRank) in your forum homepage. Many established forums will have different PRs in forum home (usually up to three), as an example:

www.yoursite.com/forums/ (PR = A)
www.yoursite.com/forums/index.php (PR = B)
www.yoursite.com/forums/index.php? (PR = C) This is a typical "PageRank Leakage" issue and might also lead search engines to tag these pages as duplicate content.

So i don't have to enter www.consolegames.ro/index.php but something like:

index.php
index.php?
www.consolegames.ro/forum/index.php ?

Later edit: anyway, i did entered index.php and index.php?, rebuilted the sitemap and still have no www.consolegames.ro/index.php inside the sitemap... i really don't know what else to do.

[Shadab]

- You should only have this in your homepage aliases:

index.php
index.php?

Nothing else.

- Undo the change you did to your domain root .htaccess file. (In post #4 above)
That was probably unneeded. Confirm with a staff member before.

- Locate the file 'extra-urls.txt' text file in the 'vbseo_sitemap/' folder.
And enter this single line in it :

http://www.consolegames.ro/

Save it, and regenerate the sitemap.

[MonkY]

Thank you very much Shadab ! I've done what you said (added in extra-urls.txt and made my .htaccess zero) and now i have
Console Games in my sitemap, but i don't see any Console Games in there Is this OK ?

[briansol]

ys, thats what you want.