the best thing to do is have a plugin that creates a sitemap and register it with google/bing/etc…  the google xml sitemaps plugin by Arne Bracchold and the WP SEO plugin by Yoast both do this and simple press will add its pages to the sitemap (if using our xml sitemap plugin)…  hopefully soon All in One SEO sitemap will be supported (waiting on their team to add a couple hooks)….

What is this code you refer to?  some some js?  you could add it to the spFoot.php template file which shows on every page.. as long as it adheres to the canonical url, it might work too…

but getting the links in a sitemap is a more robust solution for any search engine crawlers..

Thank you Mr. Papa.  I didn’t want to post the meta info publicly, so I PM’d you that.  Bing’s instructions are to insert the code into the head of the default (homepage) page of the Forum.

Just a thought but surely any code you need to be loaded should be in the WP footer NOT the forum. Is that not right? At least if you want site wide support.

Hi Yellow Swordfish,

We are going through this verification process because we switched from a bbPress Board to Simple:Press and we want Bing/Google to index it as quickly as possible.  All the search result links are going to be broken until then.  (i.e. previous URLs were www.boards.elsaelsa.com and the new ones are www.elsaelsa.com/forum.  We’re setting up a redirect, but it will just redirect to the homepage, not the specific thread in the search results.

So, you think I can input this code in the footer instead of the header and it will do the trick?

I was simply suggesting using the wordPress theme as opposed to the Simple:Press theme simply because the Simple:Press theme will ONLY pick up forum pages whereas the WP thene will pick uo ALL pages of the site – including the forum. So – using the WP theme makes it more inclusive.

Header or footer? No idea. I would go with the recommendation of whoever supplied the script.