No follow code?

[Angeleyes]

I was recently on an SEO forum and questioned why my forums don't show up on the search engines as linking to www.iheartpaws.com (http://www.iheartpaws.com) and why I don't see too many of our pages indexed compared to what we have.

Someone mentioned that it's because I have "Nofollow" code in my templates. I searched the templates and found that code in a few places. Is this why? How do I change this? Can anyone point me in the right direction?

[SaN-DeeP]

you need to remove this from your bbcode..
do you remeber how did you added rel=nofollow to your vbulletin system ?

[doug1]

It also depends exactly which links have the nofollow tag applied to them. You need to check this.

For example, some people deliberately add nofollow to pages such as the FAQ. (using robots.txt is a better way to keep the bots out though.)

If the links from your forum's index page into the content pages have rel=nofollow applied, this would prevent them being indexed. It would be very unusual to have have the tag applied to these links though.

[Angeleyes]

you need to remove this from your bbcode..
do you remeber how did you added rel=nofollow to your vbulletin system ?

I never added it to my system. It must have been default.

[Angeleyes]

It also depends exactly which links have the nofollow tag applied to them. You need to check this.

For example, some people deliberately add nofollow to pages such as the FAQ. (using robots.txt is a better way to keep the bots out though.)

If the links from your forum's index page into the content pages have rel=nofollow applied, this would prevent them being indexed. It would be very unusual to have have the tag applied to these links though.

I'm a bit of a novice so I'm not really sure, should I post an example of the code on one of my templates?

[ForumDog]

nofollow is included by default in the vBulletin templates. It is used quite sparsely and strategically and should make no difference to a search engine's ability to crawl your forum.

Can you post a link to your site?

[SSandgirls]

Is no follow code used in VBulletin for signatures where members have links to other sites?

Many of our members link elsewhere, and to competitor sites, I would like them to be no follow links in signatures,

is that already done, or can I add that in somewhere?

many thanks

[MRGTB]

I've also noticed, when I had SubDreamer installed that used static pages. They were getting indexed in Google really fast (but I expected SubDreamer to be better though due to static pages). But since I put vBulletin back online and used RSS feeds to get posts (over 5,000 now). I've yet to see more than five of them indexed in Google so far using: "site:mrgtb.com"

In fact I'm dropping pages left right and center. And gaining no new ones since putting vBulletin back.

I know it takes time to get new pages listed which is fair enough. But Google has been crawling my site daily on the forums and archives. And still out of 5,000 new posts (RSS) and about 35 articles posted myself. Not one page has been indexed yet. In about the same time-scale I have SubDreamer installed online.

I just can't understand why not even "FIVE" page has been indexed and showing up, I'm kinda hoping the next 2 weeks things will change. Maybe it just needs more time for Google to list what it has indexed. Because then it will have been 4 weeks. And most of the articles from SubDreamer were indexed after about 3 weeks. It's really annoying to see Google all over your forum, then seeing nothing is basiclly getting indexed very fast.

[SSandgirls]

Im finding that with Yahoo Slurps, they are there all the time and seem to be indexing nothing.