Search Engines does not show my vbulletin 5 connect forum Topics / Threads / Posts !

[mgurain]

Hi,
Search Engines such as Google does not show my vbulletin 5 connect forum Topics / Threads / Posts !
Is there an option I am disabling in the ACP ?

[mgurain]

Anybody can answer this ?

[Mark.B]

There's nothing you can do to force Google to index your site, it's not a setting you can turn on and off.

[Lynne]

You need to make sure any topics/posts that you want indexed by Google are actually viewable by Unregistered Users.

You can also use the Sitemap option in the admincp to submit a sitemap to Google.

[BirdOPrey5]

How long has your site been active?

It is weird because there isn't a single word from your domain in the Google database best I can tell. You should log into Google Webmaster Tools and see if there is a problem. They may be blocking your domain.

[mgurain]

After searching I figured out that I have a robots.txt file in my website which disallows google or any search engine from indexing my website !
I have deleted it now ,,

[Lynne]

Thanks for posting what the issue was. I'm glad you got it figured out.

[Brad Padgett]

After searching I figured out that I have a robots.txt file in my website which disallows google or any search engine from indexing my website !
I have deleted it now ,,

Just for the record, a robots.txt file actually helps google index your site.

It was making it harder because it had "Disallow" in it.

In order to index your site properly make the same file and this is all you will need in that file:

User-agent: *

^^ that is all you need. If it has any "disallow" in it then it will block google from crawling the specific page that was disallowed.

Good luck.