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I have the WP and SP google sitemap plugin but so far after 1 week I don't see any individual threads appearing on google. Maybe I'm just not giving it enough time, but I know for the site itself, this usually would be done by now. Are there any settings I'm overlooking? Should I just wait? Thanks for any insight and I love the software, I've converted my entire site to a forum format and love SP for making it so easy.
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I saw googlebot today! Guess you can ignore this thread.
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sure... 
thanks for the update....
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Ok, so I mentioned I saw googlebot back at my site and soon after the number of indexed pages I had went up. I checked with google and all of my individual threads were indeed indexed. However yesterday I checked again and all of those pages are no longer indexed for me, all that is showing up is the main page /forum/.
I don't mean to bug you if this is something typical and I'm simply being impatient, but I'd rather be safe than sorry as this forum will be the bulk of the content of my site moving forward. Any ideas as to anything that I need to check or do? I had W3 cache enabled but after reading up in these forums I found out that it's not effective for SP. Was it possible that having it enabled had anything to do with my issue? Should I resubmit my forum page to be indexed again? I just did so the other day and that was right before they got indexed.
I'm really digging SP and am ecstatic that I found something that works so well and integrates so easily, but getting these threads indexed is a major priority for me. Thanks.
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yes it could be... since the cache may have been serving the same page over and over to the bot and thus it removed for duplicate content...
have you actually checked your sitemap generated file and ensured your topics were in there? and in the wp google xml sitemap plugin (not the sp one), manually rebuild the sitemap and just ensure there are no errors...
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I'm really not too familiar with sitemaps, I'm learning as I go. Would I check the sitemap through my ftp server and just look at the file itself? And rebuilding the sitemap I'd through the WP admin section?
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Ok, just checked the sitemap through the WP admin section and I do see all the forum threads.
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Ok, I'm sure I'm just being impatient again, but like I said indexing the threads is pretty important so until I see them in google, I'm going to be a bit nervous. Thanks again.
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okay, so no issue with the wp plugin notifying google? lets just see what happens... these are NOT private forums, right?
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