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[tweak] Get better results for your forum from search engines
by Brad 23 Oct 2002

Not getting as many hits for your forum from google or any other search engine?. Editing your meta tags in the forumhome template can really improve your results. This guide will teach you how to do this in two easy steps.

1: editing the meta tags

Open your forumhome template and find this block of code (near the top)

<meta name="keywords" content="vbulletin,forum,bbs,discussion,jelsoft">
<meta name="description" content="$bbtitle is a discussion forum powered by vBulletin. To visit the forum, go to $bburl/ . To find out about vBulletin, go to http://www.vbulletin.com/ .">

Edit this to your liking, adding things that relate to your site will give you better results. I run a anime site so ive edited mine to look like this.

<meta name="keywords" content="vbulletin,forum,bbs,discussion,jelsoft,anime,japanese animation,fanart">
<meta name="description" content="$bbtitle is a forum for all anime fans to share their art work and disscuss anime, To visit the forum, go to $bburl/ .">

2. submit your forum to search engines

http://128.121.225.20/submit/index.html your forum url to these search engines and watch em crawl..

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