Originally Posted by Mark S
Basil mate,
Your site is showing up in Google.

I think the confusion comes from your search criteria.

We as a community has raised the issue that google is doing some strange stuff?
As in Site:mysite.com
Works in google.com but not in google.co.uk

Try This :
site:britishcarforum.com = 38,700

So ive done some checking for you. And you need to think how your members will find your site?

There hardly likely to type into a google search box “site:http://www.britishcarforum +bcforum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/”

They are how ever more likey to type in “britishcarforum.com” or “britishcarforum

Now if they do that then your forum links along with all chat links etc will show up in google.

Searching at google.com
Britishcarforum.com = 41,100
Go to the last page click on “repeat the search with the omitted results included.
you will see that your “

British Car Forum: Privacy statement Shows up in the first couple of lines."

Britishcarforum
As Above but your home page is first place.

britishcarforum+showflat : 1,000

First one for me is
British Car Forum: 1975 MGB For Sale in Classified's

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When I do site:wikiwirral.co.uk I only get 1 result.
But if I only type in “wikiwirral” in the search I get 13,000

Just a side note that my old domain is still being indexed by Google
2 months in now, and the files have all been deleted too.

Summary
Google is indexing your site Basil.
Its your search criteria that’s fooling you.

If the searches arnt showing the results you want, then you need to
address that with your keywords etc..

If it was that easy we would all be doing it. wink

I hope that helps ??

Sigh!!! - Ok, I know my "site" is showing up. What is NOT showing up are any (or at least not very many) THREADS from teh new Threads 7 install. Any posts that DO show up are from the OLD threads. If you see anything in the directory www.britishcarforum.com/ubbthreads/anything THAT is from my OLD Threads 6.5 install which now only re-directs to the new forum.

See how many links like this you see:
http://www.britishcarforum.com/bcforum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/ANYTHING.....

If you can show me more than 3 or 4 fram way back in Jan then I'll believe you. But I am not seeing ANY (well a couple from Jan when I first did my install).


Basil

Last edited by Basil; 04/24/2007 10:35 AM.