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Hi, someone can help me to know why we have a very low rate of indexed urls?

Filename Status Format Downloaded URLs submitted Indexed URLs
foros/sitemap_index.xml.gz Sitemap Index Sep 13, 2009 1,096,141 83,003


Our forum url is LocalStrike Game Servers | Foro de Servidores de Juegos OnLine

Thanks,

kERPLUNK

This will increase over time. it will NEVER be 100% as your users constantly add content daily and google is slow. i've had the sitemap installed for over 3 years now, and i'm still just reaching 80%.

As long as the figure keeps going up on a semi-reasonble basis (every couple days) there's nothing to worry about.

Hello Nicolas ,

You should make sure the following two options are disabled within vBSEO Sitemap Generator settings :
Include Old Urls - Include Showpost Pages

I already have "Include old URL" disabled. Now i disabled "Include Showpost Pages".
So, what is going to change with this?
Why i have an option and i cant use?
I think this is not a solution..

Thanks,
k

You can use that option but we suggest not to use it. Please read the following threads and posts for more information :

[How To] Replace Showpost Links with Permalinks - Max Out Search Engine Crawling Efficiency
Do your ShowPost Pages Get Search Hits? - vBulletin SEO Forums
How much Googlebot time are you wasting? - vBulletin SEO Forums

Thanks, i removed the option "Showpost Pages" and my stats now are:

Sitemap stats

Total URLs: 151,869
Indexed URLs: 10,749

Im afraid, before this i have 80,000 indexed, now 10,000.

It is ok? is better this? or i loose 70,000 indexed pages in google?

Thanks,

k

Losing counts will happen. On an average thread, there's likely ~10 Showpost links in it (given a 10-post thread average).

You don't want showpost in there anyway. It's already there are part of showthread. The counts may be lower, but you will find you'll have better and more terms to rank against given a whole thread instead of just a single post about a given topic.

We also recommend using the "replace show post with permalink" option, thereby virtually eliminating the duplicate content from showpost.php entirely.

Ok thanks, will see! i hope this options makes our forum more indexed..

Thanks brian for you help, i'll be in contact in some days give you a report about this changes..