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- SoldjahBoy
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Has anyone else noticed there are [Bot]'s logged into the forum from time to time? So far I have seen Yahoo [Bot] and Google [Bot]... where do they come from and what the heck is up with that?
- CaptainOblivious
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They come from, you guessed it, Yahoo and Google. They're archivers. They are the sole reason one day everybody who types "Oh, that crazy SoldjahBoy!" into Google is gonna come up with this page right at the top of their search results.
- SoldjahBoy
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They come from, you guessed it, Yahoo and Google. They're archivers. They are the sole reason one day everybody who types "Oh, that crazy SoldjahBoy!" into Google is gonna come up with this page right at the top of their search results.

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- CaptainOblivious
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Let's just see how long it takes...
- Vrav
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If you put a quote in front of the search string it returns a certain other thread here.
- Rich
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They browse all forums, just PHPBB3 shows them now.

Pretty much every thread seems to be getting indexed
- Tom Construct Team Founder
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If possible this forum should URL rewrite the page addresses to just .html files (as I have done on my forums). Google favours what appear to be static pages when archiving rather than dynamic ones with querystrings.
- Ashley Construct Team Founder
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The [Bot]s are just Google, Yahoo, MSN etc. crawling the web for their search indexes - they were there before as anonymous users, but phpbb3 recognises them now.

I don't know how to rename each page to a .html - besides, doing that can trick google in to using more of your bandwidth than it ought to.
- Tom Construct Team Founder
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http://downloads.phpbb-seo.com/phpbb3-s ... te-38.html

Worth doing imo if you want some more referals from search engines.
- SoldjahBoy
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downloads.phpbb-seo.com/phpbb3-seo-url-10/advanced-phpbb3-seo-mod-rewrite-38.html
Worth doing imo if you want some more referals from search engines.

I think all you have to do is put an unlinked HTML file in the root directory of the host with keywords in it... that should do the trick
- Doppel
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Look guys the msn joined the party

<img src="http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/4346/robotsow8.png">
- SoldjahBoy
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Look guys the msn joined the party

<img src="http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/4346/robotsow8.png">

KIIIILLLLLL EEEEEEEEET!!
- Doppel
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<img src="http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/7965/baiduof6.png">

LOL even china is after Construct.