UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums General Suggestions and Feedback Google still not there

no, you'd enter:

Otherwise at times you'll end up with double forward slashes.

I was using this (domain changed to suit) to redirect entries to the forum. It goes straight there without the main index page loading:

AFAIK he wants to direct queries to his OLD install location to his NEW; not an index document to the forum page... that or i'm totally lost in the conversation :X...

Just checking my listings and I was surprised
to find these thumb nails with a google search on my domain.

Its the fact that the embedded video's have thumb nails.

Another reason to get this part of the stock product

If msn live search isn't indexing your site
try this link to get it listed

http://search.msn.co.uk/docs/submit.aspx

The New URL for posts is this to help with the search engine
listings?

Suppose i'm asking why the change in 7.3 ??

Example
https://www.ubbcentral.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/206237/7_2_2_Custom_Island.html#Post206237

It now contains the subject title.

They appears to be SE friendly URLs which are supposed to help a great deal. I haven't enabled mine, though, thinking all my old links would break -- does anyone know if they would, or would they get redirected?

they should all forward to SE friendly URL's

This is in another thread Update Robot Txt 7.3

I think this Topic would be handier to continue the questions
as its covered a hell of a lot about Google and listing ect..

With 7.3 we have the Option to :

Enable HTML Extension:
Enabling this option will append ".html" to the end of urls

Okay what is the optimum setting on or off?
And why if it is better on or off?

Just trying to understand this new setting.
As we don't want to screw up our google listings.

As far as google is concerned, that's not going to make any difference. It basically gives the appearance of a static .html type URL, so it might be beneficial to some oddball search engines, but really it's just for looks.

Thanks for that - O wise one

mark leaves it unticked as better the devil he knows

I am getting plenty of yahoo, but still no google...

I think that's the norm.
If you look at the this forum's WOL list
you will probably see a similar story.

I think its the way that Google and Yahoo gather
there info in a different way.

But i'm no expert.

Our experience with Eve bears this out. Yahoo will hammer a board with tons of bot threads. Google is much more resource friendly and only uses one, or at most 2 bots. They generally come and go quickly, never staying long enough to pound your server into a lifeless pile of molten metal. I personally wish Yahoo was better behaved, there's no earthly reason not to be. The amount of resources they use, as compared to the results they offer, is negatively balanced.

I also wonder if you're running google ads and if that has an effect. I looked, Stan, but didn't see a threads on either site in your signature. The one site with forums that I could fine was an SMF and was indeed running google ads. I don't think they have to actively bot your site as much or as often if you're participating in their ad program, do they?

I agree with Dave...

Google has several major bots (Mobile, Standard, and Adsense) yet these three spawn at max 1-2 bot processes; whereas yahoo pounds you away at 8+ at a time...

Adsense does send its own bot through, but it's still friendlier than yahoo

You have close to 11,000 links to your forums, which is a pretty fair amount considering the number of topics that you have on your forums:

Google Link

Just for note: I be a moderator in a vbb forum (18.000 user) and can look into the who's online list. There is still one google bot online and a lot of yahoo and other bots. So it is not on UBB.threads that only on google bot is online. Seems Google has changed something general.

I am happy they are sending one bot to scan a site rather than blowing it up with a couple hundred

I appreciate that they don't pound the hell out of my server