Better SE Results For vBulletin?

I was wondering how you would go about on getting more of my forums onto the search engines. What methods do you guys use?

Well the way this place has done it is a well held way. Rendering the pages; writing them to a page, like thread1928.htm or something which a Search Bot will easily read but which will send the Searcher to the normal site instead of to the Archives.

Correct, that's what we have done with Talkfreelance.

You can start new threads with popular keywords so once these threads are crawled by the search engines your site links are there in the SERPs.

What forum software are you using?

There are loads of mod_rewrite hacks flying around for most major forum software. That would certainly help you.

Best thing to do would be to send out a few emails to forums / websites that have similar topics to yours and try and sort out a few link exchanges. This will help boost you up the search engines.

Good luck!

I have a question if you have a comment tag on the html would a search bot pick that up or not. Anoter question is if you have links to other high ranked pages would that boost your page ranking?

Its luck imo, You have to play around with keywords. In msn I was 2nd page for web design then I realised Id set the keywords up wrong having a space for example:

web, design, forums, etc

Now this is how it should have been:

web,design,forums.etc

That made me go to 2nd place. So I guess you need to play about. Also dont try going for the common keywords if you plan to rank in the first page on google. Say you wanted to get on google for the keyword "web design" That would be nearly impossible or youd need the best of luck with so many other sites out there using that keyword.

well why don't you do both of them
web, design, forums,web,design,forums,ect.
or something. and would it help if you listed it more than once. oh and you didnt answer da question if da bots pick up comments?

The bots would get the comments but it would take them a good while to get them as there not in the print article bit that they seem to like to crawl.

aw... okay thanks.