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markmied 
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Posted: 23 April 2005 at 11:42pm |
Both Googlebot and Msnbot visit my site regularly my site everyday. Msnbot picks up all forum posts quickly and lists them same day. Google on the other hand totally ignores them. Most of my site is access database driven and I receive quite an amount of traffic from google. Msn seems to be better at working with .mdb files. Is there anything I can do to improve my forum with google?
Thanks in advance.
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zMaestro
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Posted: 25 April 2005 at 11:14am |
try the www.google.com/addurl
you will find many tips that may help you.
i know your site is already listed, but the tips may help too.
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Mart
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Posted: 25 April 2005 at 11:19am |
 markmied wrote:
Both Googlebot and Msnbot visit my site regularly my
site everyday. Msnbot picks up all forum posts quickly and lists
them same day. Google on the other hand totally ignores
them. Most of my site is access database driven and I receive
quite an amount of traffic from google. Msn seems to be better at
working with .mdb files. Is there anything I can do to improve my
forum with google?
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FYI, they don't actually index your access database, they index regular pages like this one
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Gullanian
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Posted: 25 April 2005 at 12:55pm |
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I thought Google indexed MDB's if it found them?
filetype:mdb "users"
However re-reading the original question it looks like Markmeid is slightly confused!
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Mart
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Posted: 25 April 2005 at 1:13pm |
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Well it indexes the files, but it won't search the contents of them and index the posts
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WebWiz-Bruce
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Posted: 25 April 2005 at 1:15pm |
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I find that google is very odd in it's updating.
It seems that with poplar sites it updates it's index of them very
quickly, with other sites I have it only updates it's index of them
once a month.
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Gullanian
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Posted: 25 April 2005 at 1:51pm |
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I much prefer MSN's indexing, it seems to be very prompt and regular, I think they claim it does a complete reindex once a week.
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Posted: 25 April 2005 at 3:56pm |
Searchbots only follow links, not connection strings (unless they are very, very bad bots).
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