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Posted June 28, 201311 yr Hi, i have few questions about search-engine optimization. 1) As i understood in IPS bots(spiders), don't have separate group, but they use permissions based on guest group. So, if in permissions i set that guests can't read topics, it means that bots also can't index topic titles and tags for topics? Should i make specific group(permission set) for bots? 2) Sitemaps. Is there any step by step tutorial for newbie? 3) Meta tags. To separate them we should use commas? Like: blue yeti, white yeti, brown yeti? after commas we should use white space?
June 30, 201311 yr Author Anybody? I also realized that google is indexing a lot of junk, like: free - Tags - Forums - Armedunity project - Tags - Forums - Armedunity Help Topic: How to Register Help Topic: Calendar Callendar: June 27, 2013 - Armedunity Week beginning June 18, 2013 - Armedunity And nothing from that, what is really important. P.S. even all sitemaps you can download just by clicking on link. sitemap_core_forums.xml.gz and others.
July 29, 201311 yr I can't believe there isn't a basic form to enter meta tags so the bots can see the proper topics.
October 9, 201311 yr 1) a. They can only index what they can see, so your assumption is correct. On our board we do not make any profile information available to guests, or the member list for that matter, for privacy reasons. Forums we don't want or don't need indexed get excluded from the permissions as well, like our chat forum. 1) b. You could, I guess. I did try a long time ago, but didn't really need a separate group. I think you really need to set up a new group for Guests, rather, if I am not entirely mistaken (but I could be :D ). 2) No Idea, someone else needs to help here :). 3) Commas, yes, white space makes it more human readable, but is not required. HTH, warm regards, Wim
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