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Title: Forum not appearing in search engines
Post by: aufcharry1 on February 13, 2013, 07:15:38 pm

Hello on Monday 11th February I created a forum for the supporters of my local football team:Abingdon United. (Here (http://abingdonunitedforum.createaforum.com/index.php) if you're interested) On the features and options page  I put the words 'Abingdon United Forum' seperated by commas in the Meta keywords associated with forum part. Yet when I type in Abingdon United, or Abingdon United forum etc into a search engine; it doesn't come up. The only way to access it is via link. Can you help me with this?
Thanks for your time
Harry

Title: Re: Forum not appearing in search engines
Post by: aIURbliS on February 13, 2013, 08:18:40 pm

Just because your website is titled "Abingdon United" it doesn't mean that it will automatically appear on front page in search engines. It seems that you chose a name that's not unique so your forum has to compete with other websites that has much more content which makes search engine bots think that their forum is more relevant.

Title: Re: Forum not appearing in search engines
Post by: CreateAForum on February 13, 2013, 08:20:23 pm

Yeah it takes a while weeks normally to get ranked.

Title: Re: Forum not appearing in search engines
Post by: aufcharry1 on February 13, 2013, 08:39:33 pm

Thank you very much for that, I'll  just have to be patient for now  :)

Title: Re: Forum not appearing in search engines
Post by: Katey on February 13, 2013, 11:51:15 pm

And the more visits to the website the more popular, so if you wait it will come up when you google it. Or do Abingdon United Forums. That works for me.

Title: Re: Forum not appearing in search engines
Post by: Orange on February 19, 2013, 07:42:37 pm

I just search 'createaforum' and my forum shows up near the top. :P