Value of Posts?

What is the value of a message forum?

[naitsirhc26]

In my web site, I implemented a message forum. As of now, we are getting close to around 2000 posts. (i know this is small compared toa lot of sites, but hey, its still good enough for me). I was wondering if Google/search engines put a value on all of the content in search engines? Does this add a lot of unique content to my web site?

What are your thoughts?

Cheerful Trails,

Christian

[thecoalman]

Works very well for mine but I spent a lot of time modifying it. PHPBB for example is minefield of duplicate URL's and pages such as the memberlist that you don't want indexed.

[cmendla]

I have to agree with the coalman.

I had a bunch of phpbb forums up but they do require extensive modification. I also had a case where, despite my best efforts, the googlebot and Yahoo slurp ran amok and told me I had 10,000 pages when there were less than 700 or so. I ended up getting so frustrated I removed phpbb. It took about 9 months for the sites to climb back to decent serp results.

On the other hand, there is a tremendous value to having users write content for you. When done right, every post ends up potentially in the search engines driving traffic. As an individual, you can only create so much content. If you have a board others create the content and you delegate the mod tasks to robots and volunteers or employees.

(... Thinking I have to download the latest PHPbb and try it again on one of my sites....)

cg

[Corey Bryant]

Start searching Google on some of the new threads. This will help you see ow often Google updates their information.

On one message board that I administrate, I can usually search for some of th key terms in the post and I have seen it come up as soon as just a few hours after the post

-Corey