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Title: Forum promotion
Post by: ceekay on June 07, 2017, 05:32:10 am
Hi guys,

So my forum is up and running nicely now, got a few members and promoting on FB and Twitter, but how do I get search engines to notice and list me? Or will they have done that already. Sometimes I see like 20 to 30 guests all viewing the boards, but when I check the IP a lot of them state Google Cloud, are these bots crawling my site?

Is there any other way to promote interest?
Title: Re: Forum promotion
Post by: SMFNew on June 07, 2017, 05:41:05 am
You can submit a sitemap to google and bing
http://ceekaysvapeshack.smfnew2.com/index.php?action=sitemap;xml
Title: Re: Forum promotion
Post by: ceekay on June 07, 2017, 05:43:00 am
Is that my site map? lol
I had no idea I could get that!
Title: Re: Forum promotion
Post by: SMFNew on June 07, 2017, 05:43:58 am
Yup it is
Title: Re: Forum promotion
Post by: ceekay on June 07, 2017, 05:45:53 am
How would I find that then?
Oh and thank you ;)
Title: Re: Forum promotion
Post by: ceekay on June 07, 2017, 05:48:05 am
I hit a problem, just tested it in google and its telling me Error 403 (Forbidden) :(
Title: Re: Forum promotion
Post by: SMFNew on June 07, 2017, 05:58:40 am
Hmm not seeing that when I tested the url
http://www.dnsqueries.com/en/googlebot_simulator.php
Title: Re: Forum promotion
Post by: ceekay on June 07, 2017, 06:03:11 am
Thats telling me its invalid too!
I just enter this bit right??
http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9  http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd
Title: Re: Forum promotion
Post by: ceekay on June 07, 2017, 06:05:43 am
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Title: Re: Forum promotion
Post by: SMFNew on June 07, 2017, 06:06:05 am
No  you submit this url
http://ceekaysvapeshack.smfnew2.com/index.php?action=sitemap;xml (http://ceekaysvapeshack.smfnew2.com/index.php?action=sitemap;xml)
Title: Re: Forum promotion
Post by: ceekay on June 07, 2017, 06:07:51 am
Ooops!! Blonde moment! Apologies, I'll try again, lol
Title: Re: Forum promotion
Post by: ceekay on June 07, 2017, 06:10:29 am
Ok done it, lol. Thanks for your patience ;)
Will submit to bing a little later when I have more time.
Thanks for the help @SMFNew
Title: Re: Forum promotion
Post by: ceekay on June 10, 2017, 02:32:25 pm
Hi again, so I went to check my sitemap in google, and its giving me that 403 error again. Any idea's why?

Title: Re: Forum promotion
Post by: SMFNew on June 10, 2017, 05:26:34 pm
You put the wrong url in
Place just
index.php?action=sitemap;xml

Because your url on that google page starts with /
And already has your domain there.
Title: Re: Forum promotion
Post by: ceekay on June 10, 2017, 05:40:36 pm
Oh for goodness sake!! This isn't as easy as I remember when I had my own site 12 years ago!
Thank you again SMFNew, you are quickly becoming my saviour!
Strangely enough I seem to have got it correct in Bing.
Fingers crossed now.
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