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My indexed pages in Google have recently gone from almost 1000 to about 150 and seems to keep going down. I understand that I need to install Zero Duplicates, but I had a question. Does installing new templates and/or mods affect SEO? I have about 4 old templates installed (I'm obviously only using one) and about 6 smalls mods. I thought I was doing quite well with Google when my indexed pages were approaching 1000, but now I'm very concerned that Google hates my forum for some reason. Does anyone have any suggestions? Is it just a matter of ...

Hi guys,
I converted my forum to the seo version, and i uploaded the robots.txt file.
In my google webmaster account im getting 455 blocked pages and rising :? .
What happens here?? does this affect my forums ranking??
Also, pages are still listed as normal ***viewtopic.php** in google search after a few days. How long will it take to update??

Once again, many thanks.
Tony.

Hi,
i'm having a problem with generating sitemap for my site.
I have site.com and site.com/forum when i try to generate sitemap it index pagas as this:

site.com/index.php?id=2 // OK
site.com/viewforum.php?f=5 // instead site.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=5
site.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=9 // instead site.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=9
site.com/forum // OK and this is the only link to the forum

my site is about 7 pages + forum but the genarated sitemap have over 150 links i google display errors because site.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=9 did not exist and the server return error 404.
I also use a script on one of my pages that list last 10 posts from my forum. When ...

Could anyone explain me the step of how to configure or make web crawler for my forum phpbb3 web site?

Does anyone know if it's possible (is there a MOD) to send an automatic Welcome greeting to new users via PM?