FIATForum.com Progress Report

Well, actually the RRs are very flexible. You can position them anywhere you want. And you can include HTML formatting code to make them look as you wish. As well, you have a large degree of control over what text is actually displayed in them.

82,100 today!! Google must be on a mass crawl or something... cool!

In regards to these RRs though, they have to go above the thread (of course) and as you can see from my site, there is already quite a bit above the actual thread start - and I don't really want to push it down anymore.

How useful are they realistically - will it make a massive difference if I dont have them? (in your humble opinion )

I think the effect RRs will have depends alot on the forum and its niche. For instance, a forum with alot of technical information, posters might be more inclined to include more detailed information and keywords within the post and (particularly) in the title. However, forums that are for say general chat, are less like to have descriptive titles. In this case, using the first x words in post feature of RRs might actually help to re-inforce some of the content better.

You really have to look at your particular form to make the decision. If it's going to impact your layout - then that might be a deal breaker, of course.

Examples:

Title: Broken "Piece A" in my new "Widget, Model XYZ"
Body: I bought a "Widget, Model XYZ" but I think the "Piece A" is broken because...

The above example is good because valuable keywords are in the title. This would probably be from a product support forum, or a tech portal, etc.

Title: I so rock!!!
Body: Just got Mario Cart for my new Nintendo DS. I whooped my cousins butt at it.

The above example might be something found a teen or gaming forums. The title is not going to help the SEO, so using the RRs "first x words in post" feature might be beneficial in this case.

I think RRs could also be very helpful for admins who have graphically heavy forums. In this case, they could find a place to get the RRs very close to the top of the document so the SEs can find it before getting lost in the HTML tables, etc.

Ok, once again the weekly update - and strange things afoot.

During the week, Google had climbed up to 101,000 - though has now decreased quite a bit...

Google: 58,900
MSN: 1,027
Yahoo: 140,000

Quite why google has dropped I just don't know, I thought maybe it was due to dropping non vbseo'd pages, but checking the stats, VBSEO catalogued pages have also dropped....

Still higher than originally of course, by why the drop of the new content??

And normality returns, current stats:

Google: 116,000
MSN: 1,297
Yahoo: 140,000

It seems Google was doing a cache swap or something. I'm also pleased to say that now EVERY SINGLE vbseo'd page is in the google cache (98,700) and my classifieds and gallery are starting to pickup too!

Hopefully its now "once it's in, it's in" and Google is complete. Yahoo, whilst having a high count, only has about 20,000 vbseo'd links, all the rest are the old ones.... anyone know how often they do an update?

And on a slightly different note, anyone have a relevant PR4/5 link they want to trade for a link at the bottom of my index page? (one space left)

Haven't posted for a while as wanted to see if it was a Google issue, but things are no longer rosy.

Google: 46,200

Been like this for almost a month now and doesn't seem to be climbing. (Was up to 200k at one point!) Anyone else had any long lasting Google issues?

Google is playing around with couple things. Everybody has huge drops , huge indexed page gains right now.

Thought I might as well update this, as it's now been a year of using VBSEO.

Current board stats:
Threads: 99,021
Posts: 1,093,905
Members: 26,799

Search Engines:
Google: 114,000
Yahoo: 223,012
MSN: 116 (haha - that's kinda pathetic really)

I use robots.txt to keep the engines to only the showforum, home, and showthread pages. Don't use the archives (they route to the full version) - and of course use the sitemap generator.

Well worth the $149 it would seem

3 year anniversary

Current board stats:
Threads: 182,143
Posts: 2,044,330
Members: 60,549

Search Engines:
Google: 327,000
Yahoo: 483,000
MSN: 12,000

For reference, there are 347,295 urls in my sitemap.