I was trying to explain to him that his forums are there but there is a lot of pages that guests cannot access so theres a ton of "you do not have access to this area" messages; but he doesn't want to take my word for it so I gave up...
Gizmo, it's not that I don't want to take your word for anything. Let me try one more time - I KNOW that many links from my overall SITE are showing up. What are NOT showing up are any (or not very many) actual THREADS from my NEW Threads install (Threads 7). I guess I am not being clear in communicating this problem. Let me try this once more: I am not seeing any links show up in Google that are from actual threads from my NEW install, which has been online since December (except maybe 3 or 4 from way back in January).
IN other words, I am not seeing things like this:
http://www.britishcarforum.com/bcfo...flat/Number/284103/page/1/gonew/1#UNREADNotice the directory for my new install is "bcforum".
I do see lots of stuff from my OLD threads that must be cached, that are in dirs such as:
www.britishcarforum.com/ubbthreads... (ubbthreads was the dir for my OLD 6.5, but
www.britishcarforum.com/bcforum is where the NEW Threads is installed.
Links to my NEW threds install will look like this:
http://www.britishcarforum.com/bcfo...flat/Number/284103/page/1/gonew/1#UNREAD(in the bcforum directory and with "showflat" in the URL)
So now do you understand what the problem is? It is not that there are NO links to my site in Google, it is that there are no NEW THREADS (key word - new) showing up in google. I have 29787 topics on my forum, but they are NOT being indexed since I moved to Threads 7. With Threads 6.5 they were indexed. Now they are NOT and the fact is, I used to get dozens of new members every day from Google searches, but now I am lucky if I get 2 or 3 in a week!
So, if you want to convice me that I'm wrong, then do a Google Search and then post more than 3 links here are from the search results which point to actual threads in my new install. They would look like this:http://www.britishcarforum.com/bcfo...flat/Number/284103/page/1/gonew/1#UNREAD(THe links would be in the bcforum directory and have "showflat" in the URL).
Can you find ANY such posts newer than January (when I did my Threads 7 Install) is Google? I'll be thrilled if you can, but I bet you can't.
Regards,
a Frustrated Basil
