I cannot get indexed properly for the life of me

Indexing problems

[twistedknot]

Hi everyone..

ok I have tried pretty much everything to get into google properly.... I run a linux help forum and when i search on google for "< key phrase >" as one word exactly like that i come up in first place. ohter than that I don't come up anywhere. I have tried meta tags... which i hear they dont use anymore... You name it ive tried it ... except paying for services.

if anyone could offer me some advice and help I would greatly appreciate it.. also I run the site on phpbb

thanks

[edited by: ciml at 2:04 pm (utc) on Feb. 16, 2004]
[edit reason] Generalised [/edit]

[Stefan]

Do you have decent incoming links? That's the biggest part of it.

DMOZ, Yahoo directory, links from high PR sites, are what usually help to get a new, unknown site, into a respectable position in the serps, (along with good content).

[Jesse_Smith]

:::also I run the site on phpbb

You probably gave yourself the Google Death Penelty. Get rid of the session ID if there is one. Make the URLs Google frendly. I think there are some Google hacks that make it easior to crawl the boards. I used one when I used phpbb and the boards got crawled.