We're also very keen on the possibility of being able to have our bulletin board threads indexed by Google, etc. Much valuable content exists on our bulletin board currently, and one of our big concerns with going to dynamic is the problem of external search engines not being able to index the content.
Upon posting an inquiry on our website hosting service forum (FutureQuest), I received the following comments:
Quote:"Though your normal traffic may be light, and your visitors are viewing a segment of your forums, the spiders will go in and view *all* of your forums contents in a much shorter amount of time... This in effect concentrates the activity into a sharp spike in activity...
Think of it this way, how long would it take you to click through every forum link...Now if you can present the forums pages to the search engines as normal HTML files, without the assistance of any CGI methods - then I would be open to it... However if CGI is required for each page indexed - then yes, it can quickly become a problem... "
So my question is:
If we run Gossamer Threads Forum software with this 'Search Engine Friendly Templates' setup, will we get kicked off our website host? For reference, we have approx. 1,300 users, approx. 2,400 threads generating 65 MB of content in UBB 5.47.
Any information would be very useful in our deliberations
Thanks in advance
Susan Johnson
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