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hey guys. Why do bots dont crawl my site anymore? From url http://mysite.com i change it to http://mysite.com/forum and no more bots crawling.
Because that's bad for SEO.
you sure about what you are saying? How about parked domain? Such as forum.mysite.com is that ok?
Your bots are still looking at your main site (I.e http://mydomain.com)

You changed it
The Bots don't know...

Well, Go figure.
should i put something on mysite.com a files? Like blog or something? If i do shall the bots still see /forum/ ?
mysite.com (Assuming there is nothing there) would benefit from a file called index.html with the following code in it:

<html>
<script type="text/javascript">
location.replace("./forum/")
</script>
</html>

That will auto direct EVERYTHING to your forums when mysite.com is typed in.
oh got it now . Thanks bro +reputation. So how many days will bot can see my site again?
(2012-09-02, 08:19 AM)CrenZel Wrote: [ -> ]So how many days will bot can see my site again?

That';s hard to say - It depends when the bot goes back to your site again.
Having a subdomain for your forums is very bad for SEO, unless you have something in your main directory mysite.com i recommend moving your forum back to your root directory
The issue is that your site has been indexed on the root and has suddenly all been moved into a subdirectory. The bots simply do not know where you've moved your content. You should ideally have set up a redirect in your .htaccess when you made the move.
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