VB Advanced CMS and SEO

I hope I'm putting this in the right category...

So I have vbAdvanced runniing on /index.php and the vbulletin installation on /community/index.php. I have the vbadvanced navigation block displaying the link to the vbulletin install hoping that crawlers/bots (is there a difference?) will pick up the link and follow it to the vBulletin install.

Should I 'hard code' a link to the vBulletin install, or should this be enough?

I use the mapping utility here for google, would that be enough for google?

I'm a noobie...be kind!

thanks

I don't understand. Is the link you have to your forums working?

It is always a good idea to supply a link to your website if you want help with it. A picture (figuratively speaking) is worth a few more words than you posted.

R'gards,

Jim

sure - here it is

Lake Havasu City, Arizona Discussion and Chat!

thanks

Thanks. You musta forgot the first time.

Your link to the forum works, but there is no similar navigation on the forum pages, so no one will be able to get to the home page except by clicking the link way down in the lower right corner. I use a navigation bar on my site -- actually 2 of them, one for site-wide navigation and one for member related links. I've had no complaints and it is the same navigation throughout the whole site. I have the same type of navigation module you have also, but it only appears on pages other than the forum.

As a side note, I notice the tables are broken on the PhotoPost pages. This is one of the hazards of fixed width designs. It breaks because you don't have enough room for the column labels (I think).

R'gards,

Jim

First - thanks for the reply and the heads up on my photopost page. I'll be sure to fix that!

Second - I used to have a nav bar above my header but I removed it thinking that it would throw off search engine crawlers, would that be true?

Afraid I am no expert at what spiders do, so I'll leave that to the vBSEO team and other experts. You might want to post your site in the critique forum to see what kind of suggestions are made to help you improve your SEO. I'm looking forward to doing that myself, but I have work to do on my site before it's ready for that. I don't wanna be one of those guys that have to say, "I already knew that, I'm working on that, don't pay any attention to..." I want to do everything I can first, then make it a target.

Jim

I am a beginner in the SEO world. I read a google book a while ago, but I don't think it has any bearing now.

Thanks for the help tho, much appreciated!