Google searching forums?

[Killyp]

I've noticed that on all the major forums, and a lot of smaller ones that Google.com often appears in the logged in users list. This doesn't happen on my forum (www.boshty.co.nr phpBB2 based). What should I do?

 

[bigandy]

I've noticed that on all the major forums, and a lot of smaller ones that Google.com often appears in the logged in users list. This doesn't happen on my forum (www.boshty.co.nr phpBB2 based). What should I do?

do you mean for indexing purposes?

i remember when creating my student union's website with a friend, we had fun getting the bots out of the "who's online" lists. if this is the sort of thing you mean, there should be an option to hide them from view.

 

[Killyp]

no I mean to allow google to actually index that page? Does it do it on pages with MySQL data in them too?

 

[bigandy]

it should be able to index anything, even dynamic pages such as forums. if it's a new forum (like yours is) get it submitted to google, wait a few days, and you should see something turning up.

in the past (as in 4-5 years ago) i've had a few issues with redirected free domains but it may not be an issue these days.