Enkidu

OK. The isssue with your website is clear:


let's do:

spinacoin review site:makemoneyforum.com

clearly you have converted your website from another software package, likely WP. Google is trying to re-index your website. Some of your original wp links are returning 200 so google still think they are valid. However, the others that don't are returning 401 instead of 404. Google will take sometime to discard those from its database but eventually it will happens.

Now look at this:



your sitemap is indexed by google? how did that happen? did you link to it from somewhere? notice that this is a WP sitemap. Do you have two software packages running on the same place?


looking at your robots.txt:

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /Suggests/
Disallow: /user/

This is robotos.txt? why do you block user?

let's make the search term broader:

site:makemoneyforum.com

your index page has rel author somewhere pointing to your google profile. why is that?

I can continue doing that but you got the idea. It is not IPB fault but rather yours.

Shigure, on 25 May 2012 - 10:58 AM, said:

I don't have that issue too but I'm not using IPb 3.2 but rather 3.1. can you please show me a tag that ranks higher than a thread? I really wanna know why is this happening. BTW, I don't have the tag issue on my demo board.

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can you show me an example where you have asked for help and it didn't turn as you would expect?

Matt, on 25 May 2012 - 07:13 AM, said:

thank you for clarifying that

Matt, on 25 May 2012 - 07:24 AM, said:

what I said is basically what I suspect. Maybe it will make things worse. The best place to ask is, again, google webmaster forum. maybe my analysis is all wrong. Maybe Google needs more time to figure out the new structure of IPB. But I suggest to do a little experiment on some website and see if that improves it although it wouldn't count as science it is certainly better than implementing something based on a hunch by a guy like me

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this should read: stop shooting your own foot with canonical links. Hopefully IPS will fix that in the next major release









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