My forum not showing up on Google

[krillmeed]

I have for a year or so, allowed search engines such as Google and MSN and Yahoo to visit my forum. I even have the show bots online installed. None of them seem to have visited for over a year, and when i look in Google, basically It is only showing a couple of things that are in the blocks such as donate. Everything else is blank and showing General error. Have i added something before that caused this? I am sure they used to work, and they work perfectly here.

This is what i mean:

http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:9J ... clnk&gl=de

This is what they are at least supposed to see:

http://www.krillmeed.com/forum/index.php

Any help would be appreciated, Integramod is worth showing off <img>

[Helter]

it is possible the bots are getting hung up on your splash/entry page.
add this to your webroot .htaccess file
should be located in public_html/

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 RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (.*)(googlebot|msnbot|slurp|teoma|spider|crawler)(.*) [NC]RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http]  

If your using google adwords you should check your agreement to be sure this doesn't break the rules because it could be considered cloaking since your sending bots to a different page than humans

[krillmeed]

Thanks i will give it a try and let you know what happens

[krillmeed]

Nothing as yet. but does look like MSN and Yahoo visited since first time in over a <img> Just clicked on Google Bot Detector in the ACP and that comes up with Could not obtain detect information, yet looking on the forum database in that section it has pages of MySQL type date in it. Should it not show all that in the ACP if so, have i deleted a file or wrongly edited one that is stopping this linking to the database?

[krillmeed]

Cancel last about the Google bot detector, downloaded it again, went through the edits and noticed somewere along the way i deleted an edit, now if google does show up i should know when <img>

[krillmeed]

Just like to say "Google is in the building" Thanks for your help

[krillmeed]

Noticed MSN never gets past the first page, at least it says it has read just one page with hundreds of visits, and Yahoo is not on the list, but i think its called something else now. Will this script change that as it has done with google? MSN has visited about 10 times today but still has not gone past one page <img>

[Helter]

you could try adding their whole names

The MSN Shopping bot is msnbot-products
The MSN News bot is msnbot-news
The MSN Image Search bot is msnbot-media
The MSN Search bot is still just plain msnbot

like this

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RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (.*)(googlebot|msnbot|msnbot-products|msnbot-news|msnbot-media|slurp|teoma|spider|crawler)(.*) [NC]