Submitting forum to a google search engine?

deepndark · Post by **deepndark** » Mon May 20, 2019 9:23 am

Hello, I was searching my forum with a google search by typing "reason forum" but my site was not found with these words. Is there a good guide how to get my site listed in the google search? I want my site to be found when someone searches for "reason forum" as my forum url DOES have these both words in it. ( http://reasonheads.com/forum/ )
The google search console thing, is that the only way, and if it is, is there a step by step guide or youtube tutorial that how to do it properly?

Thanks!

david63 · Post by **david63** » Mon May 20, 2019 9:36 am

deepndark wrote: ↑
Mon May 20, 2019 9:23 am
Is there a good guide how to get my site listed in the google search?

Yes - plenty of relevant content, and patience. Google will index your board eventually and when it finds it then you will be in the search results but you need to keep getting more posts with the relevant keywords in the content to get higher up the rankings.

You are also better off not using "common" search terms but having something that is unique. Searching for "widgets" will give thousands of results but searching for "green right handed widgets" will yield only a few results.

There is no magic formula to get to the top of the search results - if there was then everybody would be at the top.

Post by **KevC** » Mon May 20, 2019 10:51 am

Further to David's point about relevant posts, you don't have a very high 'keyword' count for what your site is actually about. The word 'reason' on its own is not going to get a good result because it's not a very unique word. That's also a bit of a fault of the software makers as they would get better results if they'd come up with a quirky word or spelling of it.

I had to do a bit of googling to even find out what Reason was. None of the forums, descriptions or posts actually mention that. It would help to have at least 'reason music editing software' somewhere on the front page. Or even a post that says welcome to the site, this is for people using ..... and then fully describe what the site is for and make sure that forum is indexed by the bots.

Post by **Mick** » Mon May 20, 2019 12:37 pm

KevC wrote: ↑
Mon May 20, 2019 10:51 am
It would help to have at least 'reason music editing software' somewhere on the front page

‘Propellerhead Reason’ may work better.

As you’re probably aware your subject is quite popular (I’m a Reason fan myself) so you have to offer something a little different. If you have a difference flaunt it.

Post by **thecoalman** » Sun May 26, 2019 1:08 am

Google measures and lists your site based on a wide array of things. The meta title is one of the most important things. Open overallheader.html and find:

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<title><!-- IF UNREAD_NOTIFICATIONS_COUNT -->({UNREAD_NOTIFICATIONS_COUNT}) <!-- ENDIF --><!-- IF not S_VIEWTOPIC and not S_VIEWFORUM -->{SITENAME} - <!-- ENDIF --><!-- IF S_IN_MCP -->{L_MCP} - <!-- ELSEIF S_IN_UCP -->{L_UCP} - <!-- ENDIF -->{PAGE_TITLE}<!-- IF S_VIEWTOPIC or S_VIEWFORUM --> - {SITENAME}<!-- ENDIF --></title>

Replace with:

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<title><!-- IF S_IN_MCP -->{L_MCP} | <!-- ELSEIF S_IN_UCP -->{L_UCP} | <!-- ENDIF --><!-- IF S_INDEX -->Your Keyword Text Here<!-- ELSE -->{PAGE_TITLE}<!-- ENDIF --> | {SITENAME}</title>

Your Keyword Text Here Should contain keywords you are targeting. You can also improve the forum titles, use more keywords and make them a little longer.

odf · Post by **odf** » Mon Sep 02, 2019 10:38 pm

thecoalman wrote: ↑
Sun May 26, 2019 1:08 am
Google measures and lists your site based on a wide array of things. The meta title is one of the most important things. Open overallheader.html and find:
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<title>({UNREAD_NOTIFICATIONS_COUNT}) {SITENAME} - {L_MCP} - {L_UCP} - {PAGE_TITLE} - {SITENAME}</title>
Replace with:
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<title>{L_MCP} | {L_UCP} | Your Keyword Text Here{PAGE_TITLE} | {SITENAME}</title>
Your Keyword Text Here Should contain keywords you are targeting. You can also improve the forum titles, use more keywords and make them a little longer.

Out of curiosity, how many keywords can one put? Should they be separated by , ; or no separators?

3Di · Post by **3Di** » Mon Sep 02, 2019 10:47 pm

With a comma plus a space ,

Lumpy Burgertushie · Post by **Lumpy Burgertushie** » Tue Sep 03, 2019 3:23 am

also, having keywords in your domain name is of some help, but as you found out, it is not very high on the things that google looks for.

as mentioned above, keyword rich site description in the header, keyword rich forum/topic titles etc.

you need to post often and use keyword rich content.

remember, nobody goes to google to look for your site. they go looking for content. they do that by typing in keywords relevant to the subject.
If your site has that content and therefore those keywords, it will show up in the SERPs ( search engine return pages ).

robert

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