I understand there are issues with Nabble and Google.
http://support.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=search_page&node=5621697&query=Google+search+Gary+lewis
Harvey & Nabble - Please don't take my statement the wrong way. I need to go to HTTPS as my site is being found less and less by Google searches, as shown in the Google search results below. Which surely stems from Google de-emphasizing us because we aren't "secure". And Google accounts for...
...) trucks. [There's no other such website so mine must be the best. ] So, as Greg said, the website is for a very narrow "market".
And, I've done a lot of reading about SEO, meaning Search Engine Optimization. That's certainly helped and I get about 64 visitors a day from just Google searches - and I...
My forum is embedded on the first/home page of my site, but there are another 425+ pages of documentation beyond the forum. And a Google search will, now, find things in my forum as well as on the rest of the site.
Having said that, Google's indexing of the forum itself isn't rapid. But it does happen.
Raven - Thanks. I may sit tight and see if it happens again before I add that. But, I'll file it away for use then, if needed.
I appreciate the support.
During the night I got a message from Google Search Console, as shown at the bottom of this message, that says my page at http://forum.garysgaragemahal.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=reply& has had an error on it since June 26th.
Obviously that isn't one of my web pages, and I've not changed any pages since the 26th, so I plugged that URL into my browser and got the following, which says to contact you. Help!
Time for an update. As shown below, Google's classic search console thinks it has indexed 391 pages, while Google's Beta search console say it has indexed 371 pages - both as of March 18th. And this kind of disparity has been constant throughout my monitoring of the indexing.
Anyway, that's...
... searching, I still can't find a hit on my third test phrase of "Gary, if that makes you jealous, my sister's '83 I picked up for her for free has factory perfect floor pans and also all perfect factory rosewood trim and dash-pad."
I'm happy to report that of the three test searches shown above, Google now finds the first and third on my forum. Which fits with what Franklin told me via email, that Google appears to be indexing about 100 pages per week. That's shown on the screen grab below.
Hopefully this will continue...
Peter - I see what you are saying. And obviously you know far more about how Nabble works than I do.
However, that doesn't explain why I can't find many things on my forum when using a Google search. Here are just a few examples, but I could go on and on and on. And note that many of these...
Peter - I've done a lot of searching and I'm not able to find much in my forum via Google, in spite of them saying that they've indexed a bit less than half of the pages.
So I'm about ready to remove the redirect and see how my users get along with that. But don't want to cause any problems with work that you or Franklin might be doing. Please advise if I should hold off.
It may be working "properly", but I can't find a lot of things via a Google search that I can find via Bing or Yahoo. So the effect is not correct.