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Title: Simple machine & Search engines???
Post by: onedodd on March 30, 2005, 07:54:55 AM
Can this forum be indexed?

I notice non of these forum categories or threads are indexed by Google. At least that I checked.
The individual forums are indexed by MSN but not the individual threads. I only checked the General forum category and 1 other here but neither were on Google or yahoo but were on MSN. So the Forums can be indexed I guess but the subjects or threads within the main category appear on no se's. And since thats where all the content is so I think indexing of the individual subject threads and replies are most important. Is there a mod for this so the threads can be crawled and indexed by the SE's? Sort of like like phpBB has. 

Any feedback on this?

Thank You.
Title: Re: Simple machine & Search engines???
Post by: Ben_S on March 30, 2005, 08:00:40 AM
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c2coff=1&q=allinurl%3Awww.simplemachines.org%2Fcommunity%2Findex.php%3Ftopic%3D&btnG=Search

Results 1 - 2 of about 30,200 for allinurl:www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=. (0.62 seconds)

That should answer your question ;)

Bear in mind that this board doesn't even have the SE friendly url's option on.
Title: Re: Simple machine & Search engines???
Post by: Trekkie101 on March 30, 2005, 08:03:21 AM
MSN crawls my site perfectly, 400MB bandwidth this month alone for MSN and it trys to print topics aswell..... and its been getting me on avergae 160 links a month.
Title: Re: Simple machine & Search engines???
Post by: Ben_S on March 30, 2005, 08:07:07 AM
MSN bot ;D, I hate that thing 3.94 GB so far for me this month. Mr Googlebot is a bit more relaxed 724.82 MB.
Title: Re: Simple machine & Search engines???
Post by: onedodd on March 30, 2005, 08:11:48 AM
Since you guys are talking about it can some one tell me what tool you use to track the bandwidth of the individual bots that crawl your site?

Thanks
Title: Re: Simple machine & Search engines???
Post by: Ben_S on March 30, 2005, 08:13:47 AM
http://awstats.sourceforge.net/

Make sure to keep upto date if you intend to use it, they have had a few security issues recently.
Title: Re: Simple machine & Search engines???
Post by: Trekkie101 on March 30, 2005, 09:44:50 AM
Same for me.  ;)

Although I wanna try urchin they look cool.
Title: Re: Simple machine & Search engines???
Post by: Ben_S on March 30, 2005, 11:20:49 AM
Never liked Urchin, google have just bought urchin though...
Title: Re: Simple machine & Search engines???
Post by: Trekkie101 on March 30, 2005, 11:34:07 AM
Yeah thats how I found out about them.