SEO

When I look at the pages indexed by Google in the webmaster tools, the order is All sections, members, posts and threads, is this relevant for how the serach results works?

The order I would like should be Forum sections, threads and then user-profiles (I have just turned post-indexing off in vbseo).

Should I prevent google from searching the member profiles aswell?

Another thing I have noticed (this before installing vbseo and it has not been long enough to see the effects of vbseo) is that google is stuck on indexing about 20 000 of our pages (we have 3.5 million) and the site has been up and running since 2001 on vBulletin.
This site is using a modified vBulletin 3.0.3.

I run another site that we just started up only using sitemap generator and the sita has a little over 3000 pages and all fo them are in google index. This site is on a non-modified vBulletin 3.6.

Can the forum version have impact on the indexing or is it really hard to get google to index more than a certain amount of pages?

I was not sure what you were asking about "order" in the Google Webmaster control panel.

Re: Member Profiles
Sitemap 2.1 - google webmaster tools

Re: Stuck on 20k pages

It varies. I think the amount Google is willing to crawl depends on the quality of the pages. Since forums have so many pages anyway, I always recommend reducing the # as much as possible by blocking showpost pages, and even blocking member profiles (see above) from being crawled.

We do have customers with millions of pages indexed. The crawling priority and depth of the crawl is correlated with link value, or the # of valuable inbound links you have to your site.

Version *could* have impact on crawling, depending on the features in each version. For instance vBulletin (default) vs. vBulletin optimized with vBSEO will certainly help with SEO. I don't think your particular version of vB you are running is the source of any delay in indexing you are experiencing.

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Thank you for your reply Joe,
what I meant by order is if I look under statistics (sorry for not always being clear when I refer to webmaster tools, my pages are in Swedish so I have to translate and it might not always be on target) anyway under statistics and list pages indexed by goolgle, they list them almost in categories, all forum sections first then members and finally threads. So what I wonder is if it is in some kind of priority for google the higher it is on the indexed by google page. (like putting site:zatzy racing community in googles search field)