Googling Kicken Hardware Forums

[PeteF]

To my amazement I just Googled the phrase below from a post
here about a month ago and Google reported nothing found.
"from phpBB to vBulletin in mid March"

I Googled the WEB and I Googled GROUPS but still nothing found.
I also tried the same search with Alta Vista and Yahoo.
Nothing found.

This all came about after I did some research for RBL's BBS
to see what the growth potential is to be on the Google Forums.
In my study, I found that a good "computer support" forum on
the Google Forums has potential to grow 400 to 1500 members
over a 1 to 2 year period.

In my opinion, the Google Forums are sub-standard compared
to a vBulletin Forum, so it didn't make sense to me why the
Kicken Harware Forum was not gaining many new members over
tha past year. Yes I realize we've only been on vbulletin software
for a few months but the old software was Googlable, right?

Anyway, now it makes more sense becasue this Forum does not
seem to be getting indexed by the major search engines.
Are you guys aware of that?

---pete---

[Seth]

Furthermore....

When is this "Grand Opening" and what exactly does that entail?

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm getting rather bored with the lack of activity and absence of new members.

Is this board going to pick up or what?

[dbarrow]

One of the main reasons for VBulletin, following security, was better placement in search engines.
We explored and discussed various options and design features that need to be implimented in our pages to accomplish that.
We explored and discussed a firm that speciailizes in search engine optimization.

Much thanks to Adam for all the work he has done getting us up and running on VBulletin but all these further optimization items remain to be completed.
There are specifics that need to be done and either someone has to do that or we pay someone to do it.

If you go on the Google site and look into the Administrator's guide, there is a rather detailed page listing all the steps you need to optimize for search engine recognition.

[mylanta]

Pete,
No Phppp was njot googleable which was one of the main reasons we made the change and also 2 months is not nearly enough to even begin to feel the effect, it is more like 6 months until you will see it.
Remember our forum structure is better here and will be seen eventually, but everytime we add a new one, that sets back the time bfore recognition hits.

[mylanta]

Furthermore....

When is this "Grand Opening" and what exactly does that entail?

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm getting rather bored with the lack of activity and absence of new members.

Is this board going to pick up or what?

Seth,
My goodness you have been here a month and we have been at this project a year and 3 months...in the last month we have seen 10 new members and they have been some of the best most active members, but time more than anything else will add members and success. Search engines have to have a chance to see us.

[PeteF]

Pete,
No Phppp was njot googleable which was one of the main reasons we made the change and also 2 months is not nearly enough to even begin to feel the effect, it is more like 6 months until you will see it.

Ok Rich, thanks, I didn't realize that the old Forum was not indexable by
the search engines. My own website is routinely vistied by various search
engines but Google is the only one I can tell that does a complete job.
I can post a new article on my website and it's on Google within a few
days to few weeks. I'm on a lot of search engines but they don't all
index my entire site. This search engine topic is very interesting and
very complex.

I'm not sure if you guys at Kicken Hardware Forum have a budget to
work with but check out this deal. For $14.99 you sure get a lot.
Has anyone here any experience with search engine submission?
Any opinions on this service below?
http://searchenginepromotion.biz/?xredirect=1

---pete---

[Dudeking]

If you had Google search for adsence on the home page you would get revenue from it, may be only $5 but its something and my site never appeared in Google until I implemented this, now I have it 80 something % of my hits are off robots, (I think this is a sign I’m going down:D)

And how’s about Pay Pal donations?
Or payment to have custom user title?
Its away to get some money.

[mylanta]

Good idea and that is something Adam is working on setting up....