Howdy! Am an SEO consultant for a site with a mysql database for message boards. Google hasn't spidered any of the pages, and am wondering why not and what I can tell them to do to fix this. The urls are really short: domain.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=21
The main page is spidered: domain.com/phpBB2/ and has 1,100 backward links from static pages, but I don't think any of the second, third or fourth level pages have backward links from static pages. thanks
jatar_k
5:34 pm on Jun 23, 2004 (gmt 0)
have you looked at the mods for phpbb for spiderability? I think there are some good ones out there.
ncreegan
2:44 am on Jun 24, 2004 (gmt 0)
I started using the mod_rewrite form of passing variables (/var/value) instead of conventional variable passing (?var=value) and have seen vast improvements with spidering and ranking. Also consider making SE friendly maps that link to quality threads, but only after using mod_rewrite.