I looked up IPB SEO and saw that you were number 3 and number 4 on google.

number 3 was not the forum but your site and I found the following in the metatags


<meta name='MSSmartTagsPreventParsing' content='true' />
<link rel='help' title='Help topics' type='text/html' href='http://communityseo.com/forums/help.html' />
<meta name='audience' content='all' />
<meta name='distribution' content='global' />
<meta name='rating' content='general' />
<meta name='googlebot' content='index,follow' />

<meta name='robots' content='index,follow' />
<meta name='revisit-after' content='1 days' />
<meta name='copyright' content='CommunitySEO' />
<link rel='bookmark' href='http://communityseo.com/ipb_seo.htm' />
<meta name='identifier-url' content='http://communityseo.com/ipb_seo.htm' />
<meta name='Description' content='Community SEO - IPB SEO Module - ipb seo invision seo invision power board seo' />
<meta name='keywords' content='ipb seo, ipb, ipbseo, invision, invision board, invision power board, seo, search engine optimization, community seo, features, feature list, purchase, communityseo, modifications, mods, modules, component, furl, friendly url' />


Number 4 WAS your forum and I found the following...

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" />
<title>CommunitySEO -> IPB SEO FAQ</title>
<meta name='MSSmartTagsPreventParsing' content='true' />
<!--SNP_LINKS-->
<link rel='alternate' title='Lofi Content' type='text/html' href='lofiversion/index.php' />
<link rel='help' title='Help topics' type='text/html' href='http://communityseo.com/forums/help.html' />

<meta name='audience' content='all' />
<meta name='distribution' content='global' />
<meta name='rating' content='general' />
<meta name='googlebot' content='index,follow' />
<meta name='robots' content='index,follow' />
<meta name='revisit-after' content='1 days' />
<meta name='copyright' content='CommunitySEO' />
<link rel='bookmark' href='http://communityseo.com/forums/IPB-SEO-FAQ-f14.html' />
<meta name='identifier-url' content='http://communityseo.com/forums/IPB-SEO-FAQ-f14.html' />



Does this program give the ablity to do all that?

This post has been edited by budga: Apr 5 2007, 06:36 PM

Yes, the software gives the ability to add all those meta tags (automatically, and with on/off settings).

As a note, because we sell a product, we do want our homepage being listed higher than our forums for our particular market.

correct me if I missed something, but as I get it, you can define different page [f.e. homepage] to rank higher for the searchterm than the page where this searchterm is used?

No - in fact you as a site admin can never define how something will rank, only the search engine will do that.

We get asked a lot why (and the poster pointed out that) our homepage ranks higher than our forums - I was pointing out that this is because we point everything to our homepage, due to the fact we want our homepage to rank highest.

well,
that's like 2X2 ...
from every page you link to the page which should have highest rank