Huge drop in yahoo pages!!

www.globalautomobileforum.com

My site had about 480 pages on yahoo even thpugh it was fairly new however searching this morning only 18 pages came up. Does anyone know why this is the first time it is happening. ever since the vbseo was installed it been fine and have not tweaked anything. only 1 page has been showing on google ever since i uploaded the site.

Typical Google is responsible for SERP fluctuations. I look a quick look at your site. A few comments:

Remove "Powered by vBulletin" from your template title:
[HOW-TO] Remove "Powered by vBulletin" from Your Page Titles

Separate the words in "GlobalAutomobileForum" in the site title.

I would cut these type of text from the start of your forum descriptions:

"This is a discussion forum for "

It gets repeated too often. In fact, I would review everything and strip out non-essential filler text where possible.

Your page rank is showing 0 in the toolbar. I don't see any links for you. You'll need to start building links. One good way to start is putting your forum URL in your signature here at vbseo.com! But - do this in any automotive related forums that you participate in (as long as the forum allows it).

You might consider purchasing some directory listings. You might have noticed a few users posting articles for diggs here lately. You might want to try that out as well.

I'd also recommend posting a request in our http://www.vbseo.com/f45/ forum to get more feedback from users or in our http://www.vbseo.com/f43/ forum where you might be able to exchange reciprical links with some of other vBSEO-enabled forums in the automotive industry.

Thanks for the advice and have done exactly what u said so I'll wait for a few days to see what difference it makes.

you've got a lot of funky stuff going on......

Code:

webdeveloper-inline-style

is not a valid attribute.... where did this come from? this should simply be style.

Code:

<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" id="webdeveloper-disable-all-styles" href="chrome://webdeveloper/content/stylesheets/empty.css">

linking to a crome? I assure you i don't have such crome...


change your default meta tags int he vBOptions menu

<meta name="keywords" content="vbulletin,forum,bbs,discussion,jelsoft,bu lletin board">
<meta name="description" content="This is a discussion forum powered by vBulletin. To find out about vBulletin, go to vBulletin - Instant Community .">

those won't help you a bit.

replace all this header crap with something that will help you in the SE's.

Code:

<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<tbody><tr>
	<td align="left"><a href="http://www.globalautomobileforum.com/index.php"><img title="Automobile Forums" src="images/misc/GLOBAL_A.gif" alt="Automobile Forums" border="0"></a></td>
	<td align="right">
		&nbsp;
	</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>

Try:

<h1>Global Automobile Forum</h1>

If you still want your logo that says the same thing, look into one of the many image replacement techniques.