I have the visitor maps and online plugin, that’s how I saw googlebot. I’ve seen the google adsense bot, mediapartners-google, and he scours my forum pages up and down. That darn googlebot though does not seem to like me anymore. It does seem like some sort of penalty, like I said I was indexed briefly and all was well, but they got rid of those pages quickly. If it was just taking a long time to get indexed, I wouldn’t be as worried, but since they removed them after indexing them, that seems like a bad sign.

FidoSysop – thanks for the input and help here . We appreciate it – especially me as I am a complete dunce when it comes to SEO

Hi Steve, no problem. Sorry I have not been by in a while. Never too busy to lend a hand.

Drop me an email or a pm if someone here needs any seo advice. I’m not an expert but have a pretty good working knowledge of it from the school of hard knocks.

that was Andy

but my thanks too!

Mr Papa said

that was Andy

but my thanks too!

I always get you guys mixed up. Will try and get it right next time.. LOL!

no worries!

Hey Simon, Google naru messenger, then add ebay to the search string. That’s one of my critic sites that’s coming back after tweaking the seo a little. Note just the domain name after the forum description.

Be sure in the SP SEO window that your description is 160 or less characters. the same goes with your individual forums. try to keep your title to 60 characters or less. and 160 for the description.

I tell my client’s to expect a good index within 30-60 days. So just tweak everything and sit back and wait. Never repeatedly resubmit your sitemap to Google either. The bot knows where you are and will return.

Finally, Google loves action! Make a few identities and use a proxy to hide your IP and carry on a conversation.

Best wishes, Doc

Success! Thank you both for all the help.

Good news. Thanks for the update.