Google is doing a terrible job in indexing forums

**mrwilson** · 09-19-2008, 12:01 AM

yeh i noticed this shit to.
how ever, if you have a vb forum vbseo does a great job.

**Pleasurepays** · 09-19-2008, 04:27 AM

yeah... imagine that... a search engine that's trying to provide the most relevant search results, not indexing 10 billion pages of half witted banter between kids and social retards.

**The Duck** · 09-19-2008, 04:29 AM

I believe it is because they rate forum content as less relevant.

**StuartD** · 09-19-2008, 04:31 AM

99.999% of crap said on a forum.... really isn't relevant.

**marketsmart** · 09-19-2008, 04:33 AM

Originally posted by kandah

I believe it is because they rate forum content as less relevant.

and because google is wise to all the fake forums built just for seo as well as forum spamming.....

**vod** · 09-19-2008, 04:41 AM

XonDemand

Originally posted by Pleasurepays

yeah... imagine that... a search engine that's trying to provide the most relevant search results, not indexing 10 billion pages of half witted banter between kids and social retards.

if it's on the internet it must be true

**seeandsee** · 09-19-2008, 06:57 AM

they should index all shift

**d-null** · 09-19-2008, 08:12 AM

Originally posted by StuartD

99.999% of crap said on a forum.... really isn't relevant.

and all the crappy blogging idiots are relevant??

**DamageX** · 09-19-2008, 08:17 AM

Originally posted by mrwilson

yeh i noticed this shit to.
how ever, if you have a vb forum vbseo does a great job.

Or any other mod that does SEF URL rewriting.

**Basic_man** · 09-19-2008, 08:24 AM

Originally posted by StuartD

99.999% of crap said on a forum.... really isn't relevant.

Like that?

**TheDoc** · 09-19-2008, 08:50 AM

Some tech forums, return some killer results. I don't want to say Google should remove all forums, but at least 99% should be removed.

I hate the forums that show you the question but say pay $10 for the answer, or you have to be logged in to see it. Those listings could be removed any day, they provide no help what so ever when the listing below them has the answer.

I think Google is bringing the social aspect into the algo more, and over time we will see these trash/spam forums never make it off the ground while ones that actually provide info will get the traffic they deserve.

**d-null** · 09-19-2008, 08:54 AM

Originally posted by TheDoc

Some tech forums, return some killer results. I don't want to say Google should remove all forums, but at least 99% should be removed.

I hate the forums that show you the question but say pay $10 for the answer, or you have to be logged in to see it. Those listings could be removed any day, they provide no help what so ever when the listing below them has the answer.

I think Google is bringing the social aspect into the algo more, and over time we will see these trash/spam forums never make it off the ground while ones that actually provide info will get the traffic they deserve.

I've seen that 'expert forum' spam crap too, and it ranks high all over the place and is an absolute waste on the web.... wonder how they got all the relevant backlinks because I can't see any real people linking to that garbage

**baddog** · 09-19-2008, 09:47 AM

Originally posted by Pleasurepays

yeah... imagine that... a search engine that's trying to provide the most relevant search results, not indexing 10 billion pages of half witted banter between kids and social retards.

Google is doing a terrible job in indexing forums

Google is doing a terrible job in indexing forums

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