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When should I see traffic?

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    When should I see traffic?

    Because I am concerned that i'm getting none, a few days after vbseo was installed I was ranking high on page 1 for search terms, but now I cant find my site listed at all for the same search terms, and 0 search engine traffic :(

    According to google my indexed URL's are going up daily, so why can't I find my site when searching?

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    Google and all other search engines will not index your site or give you traffic immediately as you know I give vBSEO from 2 - 4 months to see the results
    SE Takes some long time to take effect

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    So this graph looks normal? Visits from google


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    just hang tight and keep posting. it can only index the content you have. the more content you have, the more pages you will be able to rank.

    for small sites, it takes a while. You're not a high priority to google. The best thing you can do is NOT touch anything (leave the settings alone) and concentrate on posting quality content.

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    Still nothing at all, no traffic no rankings, and just a load of not found errors on google's webmaster tools

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    What are your not found errors?

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    1337 not found errors and still rising.

    All of them have the wrong URL for example

    http://www.chattaboxforums.com/forum/music

    it should be

    http://www.chattaboxforums.com/music

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    ??

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    I was thinking could it have anything to do with this setting
    Code:
    // ******** FULL PATH TO FORUMS DIRECTORY ******
     // On a few systems it may be necessary to input the full path to your forums directory
     // for vBulletin to function normally. You can ignore this setting unless vBulletin
     // tells you to fill this in. Do not include a trailing slash!
     // Example Unix:
     //   $config['Misc']['forumpath'] = '/home/users/public_html/forums';
     // Example Win32:
     //   $config['Misc']['forumpath'] = 'c:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\vb3';
    $config['Misc']['forumpath'] = '';
    Or wouldnt my site work at all if that was wrong

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    Generally you don't need to use that. Your forum wouldn't work at all if you needed to use it.

    Your sitemap file looks fine. You're giving them the correct URL's.

    Does the webmaster area say anything else in the sitemap itself? (not the error pages, but the sitemap view, X out of Y submitted, etc). Does it have a check mark or a red x on it?

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    It has a tick.

    Im concerned that the top search queries...well there arnt any

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