vB4 showthread pages not indexable?

[richpal]

Hi Zachery, it makes no difference, the noindex shows up on your official vBulletin forum as I posted earlier with a link and screenshots. If anyone else is running Firefox browser could install the SEO...

[richpal]

I recently installed an addon called SEO Doctor to my Firefox browser which analyses any web pages I am viewing and presents a SEO score, it doesn't provide a massive amount of information but it does...

[richpal]

I agree, the upgrade should make 'forums' the default as previous, with the option to make the 'activity stream' the default if required.

It took me some time to figure out how to switch...

[richpal]

Thanks for the info, thankfully I'm using cPanel rather than Plesk but that is more luck than judgement. After I contacted my hosting company they updated the php on the server to the latest version -...

[richpal]

Hi Lynne and thank you for your quick reply, have changed all the passwords so await to see what happens next. I asked my host about the server logs and they assured me that no one had used ftp to access...

[richpal]

A few weeks ago one of my forums was hit by malware and Google flagged it which decimated traffic to the site.

A little later Google Webmaster tools provided me with information on which...

[richpal]

Until recently I was using vBulletin 3.6.8 and used the following to slow down or stop spammers registering altogether. I don't bother with CAPTCHA on any of my forums.

Is Bot: Registration...

[richpal]

Please find enclosed an error message showing on my browser when I visit the forum homepage on an older forum that I am running which I think is 3.6x.

I'm not 100% sure, but I believe the...

[richpal]

Hi Zachery, thanks for your help with this ...

[richpal]

OK then, an update on my earlier posts. Google Webmaster tools did provide information to the offending link on their Webmaster > Site health page > malware, and from that page I learned that the...

[richpal]

Hi Zachery,

Thanks for the advice on stopping spam content before users can see it.

However, our forum is already very well protected against spammers and spam posts before...

[richpal]

Have just be hit by the unwelcome email from Google stating 'Google has detected user-generated spam on your site' yet provides no useful information in Webmaster tools as to which pages have offended...

[richpal]

Sorry to hear you have been hit by this exploit, there is a very long thread on the vBSEO forum concerning filestore123.info, the link is http://www.vbseo.com/f77/google-redi...estore123-info...

[richpal]

Sorry to hear you have been hit by this exploit which has affected a great many forum owners, there is actually a thread already opened on this containing much of the info you require.

Here's...

[richpal]

From the earlier post you made on a different subject I note you have cpanel installed - If that's the case you can manually backup the entire site from there, then download it to your PC.

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