google not indexing my forum

[meko me]

hello i have submitted by sitemap to google but it has crawled only 5 links out of 6,048 url's please kindly help me 

[Arantor]

Crawling isn't the same as indexing.

You've submitted 6,000 URLs to Google, but that's no guarantee of Google crawling or indexing them. They've indexed 5 - that's 5 actually in the search index. There is no count how many Google has actually saved to its network though.

Is guest access allowed to the forum?

[meko me]

yes guests are allowed to view our forum

and our forum is 1.5 years old we have 9000 members now

[Arantor]

So what URLs has it done then?

[青山 素子]

How long have you had SMF running? Did you do a conversion recently? Major changes tend to "spook" Google and it will back off from indexing for a while.

[meko me]

How long have you had SMF running? Did you do a conversion recently? Major changes tend to "spook" Google and it will back off from indexing for a while.

1.5 years
no conversion
and no major changes no seo mod insatalled 
a have a simple forum with sitemap 

[青山 素子]

If you don't have much activity and you aren't linked from many places, then you aren't important enough for Google to give you a deep indexing. If you have a lot of activity, but still aren't linked from many places, then you are probably still considered enough of your own island that you aren't going to get much deep indexing.

Have you checked with Google's webmaster tools to make sure you aren't accidentally blocking their indexer?

[meko me]

yes everything is fine in webmastertools

btw my site is in top 1.5lakh alexa ranking

and i have more than 80,000 pagesviews daily (minimum)

BTW there is 1 question i want to ask u.if u install a VB and smf @ same time and after sometime u'll see that google is indexing each and every thread posted on a VB forum and index few imp topics from smf why is that ?please kindly explain this to me if u don't trust me then u can test this ur self

[sshahnawaz]

I think this relates to Google's policies, not because of SMF. SMF has its own importance and search engines do take time to index. When did you submit your sitemap to Google? 

[NaYa]

Bro SMF is doing well .

But Google is deciding what to do ,in their cases .

can u kindly giv a like to ur site ??

and also i am sure,use PRETTY URLS to get more traffic ,

try this querry ,http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=bsnl-3g-hack&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=
the second result is from me .(as per time)


and also u need to do some SEO works to improve ur forums visibility on search engines ,use mods that realted to twitter,dig,buzz up etc..

install smf on the root instead of any other dir's .

which type of site u have ??

[meko me]

i was expecting reply frm smf devs on this issue !

Bro SMF is doing well .

But Google is deciding what to do ,in their cases .

can u kindly giv a like to ur site ??

and also i am sure,use PRETTY URLS to get more traffic ,

try this querry ,http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=bsnl-3g-hack&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=
the second result is from me .(as per time)


and also u need to do some SEO works to improve ur forums visibility on search engines ,use mods that realted to twitter,dig,buzz up etc..

install smf on the root instead of any other dir's .

which type of site u have ??

@ naya i'm using smf from abt 1.5 years and u thing i hav'nt tried all those things huh ?

[sshahnawaz]

I don't think you have tried SEO yet.... because SEO seems to be the solution of every problem related to  Search Engine Indexing etc., many people are using SMF and there is no complain.... 

[Arantor]

Google has said they don't want people rewriting the URLs like Pretty URLs does.

[sshahnawaz]

So what will you say about the pretty URLs now??

1) Useless
2) Beneficial to some extent.
3) Wrong for SEO....

This is very important to answer... 

[Arantor]

It's not useless. It does have uses.

Google simply asks that users don't do it though.

[NaYa]

It's not useless. It does have uses.

Google simply asks that users don't do it though.

It is for their easiness ,not for us.

just make two forums ,one with normal mod other with URL rewriting 

Google will come to the second one .

and also one more thing  ,Google is not only a search engine .


and to meko me  ,

can u plz giv a link to ur forum //**

[Arantor]

Actually it helps us too. If you're not rewriting links, you're saving a fair amount EVERY page.

[sshahnawaz]

Arantor: I thought my English is just superb, that's why I started answering the questions of people in SMF Help Forum. But you have written a very simple sentence which makes me confused about my opinion that my English is good.
You wrote: If you're not rewriting links, you're saving a fair amount EVERY page.
I don't understand this.... with rewriting URLs what we save? A fair amount of......  

[Arantor]

Sorry, I forget some works when I think technical.

If you have a rewriting process involved, such as with Pretty URLs, at some point there has to be an evaluation step from a nice friendly URL like the form that Pretty URLs generates to turn it into a URL that the webserver can directly process. Since this is a process that occurs based off .htaccess files, there is a complex process involved where it scans for multiple .htaccess files in multiple directories, meaning you save a surprising amount of processing time by not having rewritten URLs.

This is Google's concern too.

[NaYa]

You wrote: If you're not rewriting links, you're saving a fair amount EVERY page.
I don't understand this.... with rewriting URLs what we save? A fair amount of......  

he..he..he..me also..dont take its real meaning ..i just guessed