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I'm wondering why Google picked up this gobbledygook instead of the text in the message.
This is really critical for good search exposure.
I combined both screen caps in one image.
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Well Google doesn't- not in our or other users experience - but I have across some sort of facebook sharing plugin that does. So what are you using there in the way of plugins?
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No facebook sharing.
I do have an Add This sharing widget on the forum wp page.
Seems to work good sending to Twitter, but i have to type in my own description. But otherwise that's it, no other plugins for the forums, other than what you provide.
I don't believe i tweeted that test post anyway.
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wherever it is coming from is is scraping the page starting at the top and looking for the first text it can find that is not a control/button.tag etc. And it is finding the forum search text. Probably the first text actually within paragraph tags. Pretty shoddy.
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Viewing the source code of the messages i don't see anything like that. I disabled that plugin, and will keep an eye on what is indexed.
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looks like google perhaps indexed the sp search form at the top? perhaps google is considering it content... guess one could move the search form to the bottom...
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G'mornin Gents.. 
What i did was disable the add this plugin, disable the SP Google sitemap generator and SEO plugins, then submitted the forums full feed as another sitemap in Bing and Google webmaster tools.
At least that way i know they are receiving all the boards content.Personally i don't think the add this sharing widget was causing the mambo jumbo Google indexed.
How would i move the SP search form to the bottom of the page?
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its just a template tag in your sp theme... in ours, its in the spHead.php template file... look for:
sp_SearchForm($searchForm);
please note, the $searchForm object is defined at the top of that file and would need to accompany the template tag... you can just put it wherever you want, ie spFoot.php...
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