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dobizo:
Thanks for any advice. I'm a web entrepreneur and have  a popular blog for the apparel industry and recently added a business community with a bridged Smf community.

I have some backlinks from my own blogs and other sites. I get decent traffic with it over 30,000 pageviews per month for it to be fairly new and over 2,000 members mostly from the traffic from my main blog. I have some great articles and threads people are discussing in the forum. I want to find the best way to get them indexed into the search engines.

Any mods, tips, or general advice is greatly appreciated. I host my site with Media Temple if that helps with anything and you can look at the forum by going to hxxp:fashionnetwork.dobizo.com/modules/smf/index.php [nonactive]

Thanks,

Dobizo

confusion:
This is a pretty good list of SMF SEO optimization steps .

ellion:
thats a really useful list of tips, i have done some of this stuff already.

does anybody know about this robots.txt ?do i just create a txt file in notepad and name it robots with the code
--- Code: ---User-agent: *
Disallow: /*?action*
Disallow: /*sort=*
Disallow: /*msg*
--- End code ---

then upload that. i am geussin that once it is done there will be no feedback from the site or the robots as to wether the robots are making use of that so i want to check before i do it.

H:
Indeed you just upload a file called robots.txt with that text inside. It needs to go in your main sites folder (So it can be access via http://www.mysite.example/robots.txt rather than http://www.mysite.example/forum/robots.txt)

I'd recommend you do a search as SEO is a frequently discussed topic. You may also want to do a search for robots.txt as the one confusion has linked to is missing quite a few good entries.

karlbenson:
Re robots.txt
and
User-agent: *
Disallow: /*?action*
Disallow: /*sort=*
Disallow: /*msg*

* for use in the disallow line is NOT supported by most search engines (other than Google,Yahoo) [msn does not support it for one.]
* at the end of the disallow line is unnecessary as it is IMPLIED (the implied at the end is supported by all robots, which for the reason about is the reason why its better not to specify them if you can.

My robots.txt can be found
http://www.youposted.com/robots.txt
I have different sections for different robots and based on the parameters that each can support.
- Yahoo is too aggressive so I limit it to everything but topics.
- Google I allow free reign

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