Promoting your Forum: How?

got it all working!

I even got a daily counter if you want to check it out
http://www.cancerbeeter.org

its at the bottom right

Dpyers
is there a way to have the counter site-wide, but not have the actual counter on each page. say i enter on cancerbeeter page 2 and not on the home page, can the counter count, then display on the home.

the active users code does that...it uses a global.asa file. can i utilize the same file in your code, just count how many times it activates and not the number of sessions...would you know how to do that...

thanks

The xml is right.

I ahve started playing with http://johannesmueller.com/gs/ which build the xml for you.

You can also try adding a Sitemap for users.

rcpilotp51 wrote: Phat: Thanks for the sitemap info...is the sitemap supposed to look like this: http://www.cancerbeeter.org/sitemap.xml or is it supposed to be functional for users to click on? thanks keith

It's just an xml data file for google. If you wanted it to be functional for users, you'd have to run it through and XSLT transformation file to convert it to html or stick it in an html page with an xml doctype and use css to define display rules for the tags. The XSLT route would enable you to create hyperlinks out of the loc tags though.

I noted that a couple of items in your file were missing timestamps. Don't know if it matters though. However, I'd add priority tags for the home page, major content pages and the forum active topics page.

Also, put a link from the home page to the active topics page. Until you're deep crawled, set the active topics default to the max amount of time allowed. This will put all topics in your forum only 2 levels down from the home page which should get them the crawled faster.

<priority>0.5</priority>

Values are 0.0 to 1.0 - default if no tag is 0.5
It's the priority of this URL relative to other URLs on your site.