glennsand
3rd November 2006 - 11:45 AM
You know, you can have 'Board Fantastic' but if nobody can find it on Google or Yahoo or a gazillion other search engines, then you're going to have to depend mostly on word of mouth advertising. That needn't be the case. It's an easy thing to fix.
Go to your ACP and select: 'Skins & Templates' from the left sidebar menu, then select: '|-- Board Wrappers'. Find your skin and select the 'Edit' link.
Now you should see the following:
CODE
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xml:lang="en" lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title><% TITLE %></title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<% GENERATOR %>
<% CSS %>
<% JAVASCRIPT %>
</head>
<body>
<div id="ipbwrapper">
<% BOARD HEADER %>
<% NAVIGATION %>
<% BOARD %>
<% STATS %>
<% COPYRIGHT %>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Now, highlight everything above '<% GENERATOR %> ' and delete it.
Replace it with the following:
CODE
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xml:lang="en" lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title><% TITLE %></title>
<meta http-equiv="page-enter" content="blendtrans(duration=0.3)" />
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="cache" />
<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="cache" />
<meta http-equiv="expires" content="0" />
<meta name="resource-type" content="document" />
<meta name="distribution" content="global" />
<meta name="author" content="your board url and forums members." />
<meta name="copyright" content="Copyright ©2006 by your name or your board or homepage name. All rights reserved." />
<meta name="keywords" content="put up to 12 descriptive search words here separated by a comma with no space--use words that you would use to search for your forums" />
<meta name="description" content="put a short decription of your forums here" />
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow" />
<meta name="revisit-after" content="5 days" />
<meta name="rating" content="general" />
<meta name="category" content="general" />
<meta name="generator" content="Mozilla/4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) [Netscape]">
Read through the above and make appropriate changes where indicated, then scroll down to the bottom of the page and select the 'Edit Wrapper' link. That's all for here!
Now Google, Yahoo and all the other search engines can find you, but will they look? Not likely... So, let's fix that.
In your Google search engine, type 'google submit' and hit enter. Follow the directions. Do the same for Yahoo and any other popular search engines and with a few weeks (usually one or two) your board will be indexed by those search engines and you should be able to do simple searches using the 'keywords' that you entered above and find your forums. Wow! Now you're officially on the Internet!
