When I do
site:clubadventist.com +showflat

I get 3, one of them is UBB error...

Well I certainly don't wish to step on anyone's toes here but is it possible that Google does not index your site on purpose ? I've heard that they can block sites based on their own discretion. Is there a way to find out from Google themselves if you're not being indexed on purpose or if they get errors from your site so they don't index it? Not saying this is the cause, just curious if it's possible to find out for sure directly from Google.

What about Yahoo or MSN ? Do they index it?

NT, I've heard about them blockin sites, but generally by violating their policies (such as search engine spamming like VW and BMW have done in the past)

yahoo is there 24/7

I had 282,000 listing before I went with threads 7.0, from the day I changed... it stopped..

Wonder if it was because i went from ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php to forum/ubbthreads.php??

You have a very odd redirect for your main page. It's using a javascript onload to redirect to the forums, and I'm not entirely sure that search engines will always read/obey the redirect.

You should sign up for the google webmaster tools to see if there is any info on errors, crawl rate, last successful crawl, etc.

do you have a sample of a different kind of script? or is there a better way of doing it??

Thanks

AFAIK a lot of engines will not use a javascript redirect, they'll die on the page.

For a redirect, you could use a 302 redirect with .htaccess files, or the redirectors which came with the UBB.T7 importer.

Myself I have a 302 redirect in the old directory (/ubb/) forwarding all traffic to our new directory (/forum/) then I have the redirectors sitting in the new directory.

Can you explain that 302 thing a bit more Gizmo?

Thanks

There are two redirect codes that the webserver can serve, 301 and 302; some will say 301 is the way to go; others will say the opposing, others like me say they work well in conjunction with eachother if you're *just now* redirecting content that's already in engines.

If you where wanting to create a redirect, open up your .htaccess file on the server (generally in your web root), if you have none then you can create a new one (make sure your FTP client can read "hidden" files, hidden files in unix/linux are prefixed with a ".").

So I would enter this then

redirect 301 /old http://clubadventist.com/forum/
redirect 301 /old/ http://clubadventist.com/forum/

in my .htaccess file in my root?

and then remove the javascript file?