Bulletin Boards and Search Engines

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Canbeara

Hello,

I'm in the early stages of planning a user-interactive bulletin board, where
members can log on and begin discussion threads. Because the content of the
site is an important issue (ie that search engines be able to find it), can
anyone tell me if bulletin boards (ie, the open source type that are often
included in web hosting packages, like B2, or PHPBB, etc) are actually
"searchable" by search engines?

Any advice on bulletin board infrastructure to ensure search-engine
accessability?

Any comments or links much appreciated....

CanBeara
 
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Roy Schestowitz

Canbeara said:
Hello,

I'm in the early stages of planning a user-interactive bulletin board,
where
members can log on and begin discussion threads. Because the content of
the site is an important issue (ie that search engines be able to find
it), can anyone tell me if bulletin boards (ie, the open source type that
are often included in web hosting packages, like B2, or PHPBB, etc) are
actually "searchable" by search engines?

You can make the forums public or make them accessible (and readable) only
to members.
Any advice on bulletin board infrastructure to ensure search-engine
accessability?

Hold on. Do you want to _hide_ information or _share_ it with search
engines? If the latter, you just need to look into search engine
optimisation... the usual stuff... links, structure...

Roy
 
C

Canbeara

You can make the forums public or make them accessible (and readable) only
to members.


Hold on. Do you want to _hide_ information or _share_ it with search
engines? If the latter, you just need to look into search engine
optimisation... the usual stuff... links, structure...

Hi Roy,

Yes, I want both the public to access the posts and search engines as well.
My only concern is that if entries are stored by PHP or Perl in a database
and pages are rendered "on the fly" that search engines would have no access
to the data. I do want search engines to index all the entries and I want
all entries to be publicly accessible as well. Just not sure where SSI
stuff is prohibitive to SE access.

CanBeara
 
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Adrienne

I do want search engines to index all the
entries and I want all entries to be publicly accessible as well. Just
not sure where SSI stuff is prohibitive to SE access.

SSI or other server side includes are indexed by search engines just like
static pages, because the search engine gets the same HTML that humans get
(unless there is some nasty browser sniffing going on).
 
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Richard

Canbeara said:
I'm in the early stages of planning a user-interactive bulletin board,
where members can log on and begin discussion threads. Because the
content of the site is an important issue (ie that search engines be able
to find it), can anyone tell me if bulletin boards (ie, the open source
type that are often included in web hosting packages, like B2, or PHPBB,
etc) are actually "searchable" by search engines?
Any advice on bulletin board infrastructure to ensure search-engine
accessability?
Any comments or links much appreciated....

Some hosts include PHPBB with cpanel.
If they don't ask if they will it to be installed.
Search engines will access them.
 

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