So I was just browsing my Google Webmaster Tools console and for my Linnie Forum, I checked out the list of the top keywords found on my site when crawled by Google. Here they are: Code: lineolated linnie parakeet posts public profile avatar bird birds parakeets post cage linnies skthurley blog gail nick new pet thread user it's linelated photo feathers love breeding avian toys food green contests carrie budgies jenny linnielover debbielabella shandi behavior advertisements chilli password heather tammyyc baby visit put anne pictures A lot of these are undesirable: post, avatar, thread, Nick, public, profile, etc.. How can I reduce the use of these keywords on my forum? Do you guys have undesirable words in your list of common keywords? Is this something I should be worried about?
Those words sound like they would mostly show up in a Suggestions/Feedback type of forum, if that's the case maybe you should hide that forum from Google? Or isn't there a setting in vbSEO that tells Google what parts of the page to pay attention to and what parts to ignore?
My Suggestions/Feedback forum is hidden from guests. :o I was thinking, maybe those are some of the alt text words. For example, in vBulletin the alt text for avatars is Username's Avatar. But that's the only one I can justify it picking up...
On th forum that I'm having this issue on, I don't have vBSEO. And yes, I am using AdSense section targeting; and as far as I'm aware, the section targeting only affects AdSense ads - not crawled content or relevant SERPs.
Just tested the new vBSEO (3.3.0) feature for Virtual HTML. I put <!--VBSEO_VIRTUAL_HTML--> above: HTML: <if condition="$post['usertitle']"> And <!--/VBSEO_VIRTUAL_HTML--> below: HTML: <div>$post[icqicon] $post[aimicon] $post[msnicon] $post[yahooicon] $post[skypeicon]</div> </div> It changes all of that text to javascript, which makes it unseen by bots. Might be something to look into.
Thanks, Michael! The forum that I'm having this problem on doesn't use vBSEO, but I will definitely look into this for use here on AA.