Forum Progress report - Sadoun.net -

[newseo1]

Indexing report
VBSEO Installed on this site 3/17/06

Pages in Google -
3/19 19,100
3/27 19,000
4/06 18,300
5/17 67
6/1 4,870
7/8 4,860

VBSEO pages
3/19 0
3/27 10
4/06 34
5/17 53
6/1 116
7/8 104

Page Rank
3/19 5/10
3/27 5/10
4/06 5/10

Pages in Yahoo -
3/19 5,500
3/27 5,600
4/06 9,230
5/17 9,790
6/1 11,490
7/8 15,100

VBSEO pages
3/19 1
3/27 0
4/06 1,220
5/17 2,690
6/1 4,200
7/6 4,200

Pages in MSN
3/19 1,125
3/27 89
4/06 172
5/17 435
6/01 413
7/8 625

VBSEO pages
3/19 3
3/27 63
4/06 159
5/17 382
6/01 314
7/8 486

I am very concenered and disappointed about the GOOGLE indexing. What the heck, 4 months later and only 104 VBSEO pages ?????

I ordered your software to increase my pages on google, not reduce them.

Could some staff member look into it and tell me what is going on here? I am afraid there is something wrong with my VBSEO settings on my website not allowing google to index the site correctly.

[Keith Cohen]

Google is having issues again right now anyway, so it's not a good time to take any of the numbers seriously. Lots of sites, vBSEO users and non-vBSEO users, are experiencing huge drops in indexed pages at the moment.

[Mike]

You can help yourself out in a couple of ways. First, move the welcome header below the navbar. Second, do a little SEO work on your forum such as adding and h1 into your navbar. T2Dman has a great tutorial that makes this easy to do. Also, upgrade your vbseo version. Lots of cool features available to help you out.

And as Keith said, google is a mess right now. That is something all of us, vbseo and non vbseo users are just going to have to be patient with.

[newseo1]

Originally Posted by sportsoutlaw

T2Dman has a great tutorial that makes this easy to do. Also, upgrade your vbseo version. Lots of cool features available to help you out.

Any link to the tutorial? Is the upgrade easy to do?

[Juan Muriente]

Any link to the tutorial?

Here you go: Search Engine Optimize vBulletin 3.5-SEO vBulletin-Time2Dine Forum

Is the upgrade easy to do?

It should be, just follow the 'upgrade' instructions within the readme file. If you encounter any issues, post in the troubleshooting forums or submit a support ticket

I just took a quick look at your site. Your vBSEO settings look fine, please don't change anything with regards to that. You have a huge welcome header text, as Mike said, try moving that below your navbar.

You have good, quality content in a default vB install, with decent (4) homepage PR. I would expect great results, it just takes more time for some websites.

[newseo1]

Thanks for the link, I will check it out.

I have just upgraded one of my forums to the latest VBSEO. The upgrade seems to have worked smoothly.

I will attempt the upgrade to sadoun.net forum and see how it goes. Thanks for all your suggestions and support.

[xpfUK]

Originally Posted by xpfUK

I noticed this week that at one point my google listings dropped to 12,100 .
This lasted for two days.

They are back up now and stand @ 25,600

Well whatever Google are doing it's fine by me for the moment. Took a month or so but our listings have improved .

Google = 37,300
vBSEO = 36,900