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  1. May 29th, 2002, 09:46 AM #1
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    Why doesn't google index vbforums.com ?

    Just wondering, why doesn't the google.com search engine index the vbforums.com site ?
    You'd imagine thats a wealth of information that the google team would want access to...
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  2. May 29th, 2002, 10:00 AM #2
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    Google doesn't index dynamic URLs, i.e. ones with ? or & in the URL. There's a hack at vbulletin.org that fixes this, but it also takes up an obscene amount of bandwidth going through each thread and indexing it.
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  3. May 29th, 2002, 10:03 AM #3
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    One would imagine that it would be a good idea to index stuff like this.
    Well, I think it would anyway.
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  4. May 29th, 2002, 10:46 AM #4
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    Yeah it would be, mainly for older threads though...
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  6. May 29th, 2002, 08:04 PM #5
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    Originally posted by filburt1
    Google doesn't index dynamic URLs, i.e. ones with ? or & in the URL. There's a hack at vbulletin.org that fixes this, but it also takes up an obscene amount of bandwidth going through each thread and indexing it.
    Why did it index my site then? I am using PHP and all my pages have ? in them.

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...UTF8&q=storurl

    the first link points to

    http://haztek.d2g.com/getpage.php?page=storurl
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  7. May 29th, 2002, 08:05 PM #6
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    I'm just repeating what I heard at the vBulletin support forums...
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    Oh.
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  9. Jun 2nd, 2002, 01:32 PM #8
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    i think it doesn't index dynamic pages, pages that result due to a form submission etc..

    also, prolly has to do with the "expires" http header - if the page is set to expire it won't be indexed.
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  11. Jun 3rd, 2002, 04:09 PM #9
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    vB3 should change all this.
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  12. Jun 3rd, 2002, 04:13 PM #10
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    Hey John! What's up? I haven't seen you on the boards in quite some time. Working on something big?
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  13. Jun 3rd, 2002, 06:11 PM #11
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    Originally posted by John
    vB3 should change all this.
    Arg, you devs and your little blasted hints

    Yeah, recall ya posting about that but that it requires Apache...what a shame that is, eh?
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  14. Jun 3rd, 2002, 06:19 PM #12
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    Originally posted by John
    vB3 should change all this.
    Heeyyyyy, we have a John!!! (Back from France already? (hint hint, nudge nudge, say no more! )
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  15. Jun 4th, 2002, 08:24 PM #13
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    I popped over to France just after Easter, but I've been in England since then! Thank you very much!
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  16. Jun 4th, 2002, 09:02 PM #14
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    Originally posted by John
    I popped over to France just after Easter, but I've been in England since then! Thank you very much!
    oh yeah
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