Bullmama DeLano
Customer
I've been doing a lot of checking into webmaster tools, and I notice the keyword content for my forums, the way google sees it, is pretty lousy!
Many of the keywords are in the postbit display or footer (examples are: posts, threads, vbulletin, profile, avatar, private, location, country, code, dragonbyte) so I have a few questions.
1. Is there anyway to exclude those words from google including them as important or relevant to my website? If not is it possible to add a work around to the Dragonbyte SEO?
2. In the DBSEO control panel, is it better to have meta description use the thread title and post, or use the default one? (I now have tons of URL errors that are "too short" for meta descriptions in webmaster tools).
3. As I had mentioned before, I had deleted quite a few threads, thinking I was cleaning up my forum, so now each day I am requesting google remove the URL for those threads as they come up in the crawl errors. Does this actually work? Many times it is a URL I have already requested be removed. Or am I just wasting my time each day? (about 100 a day) Some are duplicate of the same thread, the old showthread.php URL and then the new rewritten URL.
4. In DBSEO control panel, Is adding rel=nofollow good or bad? I am reading conflicting information regarding this. Should I allow follow links that are related to bulldogs, even if I am not getting a link back?
5. On all of my forums, I am getting a soft 404 since installing for /images/buttons and /images/misc, not sure what I should do about this?
Thanks for your help as always!
Many of the keywords are in the postbit display or footer (examples are: posts, threads, vbulletin, profile, avatar, private, location, country, code, dragonbyte) so I have a few questions.
1. Is there anyway to exclude those words from google including them as important or relevant to my website? If not is it possible to add a work around to the Dragonbyte SEO?
2. In the DBSEO control panel, is it better to have meta description use the thread title and post, or use the default one? (I now have tons of URL errors that are "too short" for meta descriptions in webmaster tools).
3. As I had mentioned before, I had deleted quite a few threads, thinking I was cleaning up my forum, so now each day I am requesting google remove the URL for those threads as they come up in the crawl errors. Does this actually work? Many times it is a URL I have already requested be removed. Or am I just wasting my time each day? (about 100 a day) Some are duplicate of the same thread, the old showthread.php URL and then the new rewritten URL.
4. In DBSEO control panel, Is adding rel=nofollow good or bad? I am reading conflicting information regarding this. Should I allow follow links that are related to bulldogs, even if I am not getting a link back?
5. On all of my forums, I am getting a soft 404 since installing for /images/buttons and /images/misc, not sure what I should do about this?
Thanks for your help as always!
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