If you frequent web design forums you will see threads going back and forth about the value of the meta description tag. Some say it’s critical, some say it’s outdated and worthless. Now Google has published a post on their blog explaining how important this particular tag can be.
From the article:
Why does Google [...]
One of the things you’ll notice as a forum admin is that it can be very difficult to get a steady stream of search engine traffic. Not impossible, but forum pages often have a lot of HTML fluff like tables and JavaScript and usually have problems with most pages looking very similar to a [...]
I’ve noticed that the Slurp bot that Yahoo throws around has been going crazy on a couple of my forums over the past few days. Right now there are Slurps coming from 23 different IP addresses on one of my forums. Sure, 23 isn’t all that many but it’s a small forum with [...]
For those of you looking for a directory to submit your forums to, I came across a family of four today that instead of grouping on topic they group of the board software used. Each does look to have a pretty decent hierarchy of categories though.
There is one for forums running vBulletin, Simple Machines, [...]
As a short follow-up to the robots.txt for SMF posting I did yesterday, here is a similar article over at TheAdminZone.com on robots.txt for vBulletin.
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addthis_title = ‘robots.txt+for+vBulletin’;
addthis_pub = ‘RyanNutt’;