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Kleen Roof and Exterior Cleaning wrote:

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when going on the other site from a friends computer, all that is seen is the top box. The "general Discussion" box. Nothing below it shows up. So if we are posting in the roof cleaning discussion area, where we should post pics of our work, it cannot be seen by anyone.

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 I sent a suppport request into the forum people, it will be fixed shortly.

I went to the forum on a different browser, and saw what you mean! 

Yes, thanks for unpinning the threads. 

Pinned and Sticky are the same thing. I hate sticky threads on Forums, because often there are so many of them, you have to wade through them, to get to the fresh content.

Google hates them too, because they usually represent OLD vs New Content.

The New Forum is an SEO Machine. It not only generates a new site map whenever a new post is made, it also goes and tells Google to come crawl the forum, because it has new content to offer!

From an SEO Prospective, Sticky or Pinned threads were considered by some to be good for SEO, because being at the Top of the Forum, it insured that they got crawled by Google. 

And, on some Forums (this one, and most others) that would be true, because this Forum does not generate a site map at all, or tell Google what to do.

However, the New Forum is a state of the art SEO Machine, or I would not have bought it.

Here is what's cool. 

If you have made a Blog or Promotional Post on the new forum say a month or 2 ago, and then you add another post to that thread, here is what happens.

A new forum site map is generated, and a ping is sent to Google to come see the new content!

On THIS, and most other forums, the new post you made to an old thread MIGHT get crawled, or maybe not.  

Google is like a Dog, that wants to please, it just has to be told what to do.