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illmonkey
I've setup a forum which is getting spidered by google a fair bit now.

But all of the results, instead of having text as the "description" they have this

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See the attached, neowin's topic description is correct.


illmonkey
Bump!
illmonkey
Anyone, pleaseeeeeee!!!
Pupik
Must be because only registered users allowed to view the topic and cookies settings, or something.
illmonkey
the forum is open to everyone. You have to be a member to post.

I've checked it using these googlebot checkers and it loads fine.
Swiftie
Quote - (illmonkey @ Mar 20 2008, 18:31) *
the forum is open to everyone. You have to be a member to post.

I've checked it using these googlebot checkers and it loads fine.


I've got the same issue.. Some topics are picked up nicely..

But the majority suffer..

At the moment I can only suggesting reading through this site..

http://www.seoipb.com

Has some usefull information..
illmonkey
Quote - (Swiftie @ Mar 23 2008, 10:42) *
I've got the same issue.. Some topics are picked up nicely..

But the majority suffer..

At the moment I can only suggesting reading through this site..

http://www.seoipb.com

Has some usefull information..

I've done some of the guides on that page, but i dont see how they help!

Google is picking up the forum bar rather than the post.
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