i run a city website: main page, city government news, forum, news, happenings, etc. the site has been very popular and it is 5 years old. 2000 users per day, every day.

however, i dont what do to to make google index my pages. if i search with my city keyword (city name, my domain name.com, site title) it only return main page (domain/index.php) and maybe 1 or 2 additional pages.

i would really like to see our forum to be included in google because so many important news and happenings have been mentioned in these messages that it is real waste that users cannot search google and find those pages. we have over 190,000 messages in forum. all happenings, politics, problems, everything is described there but google doesn't show that.

i removed session IDs, i removed "id" string from urls, i did everything and still doesnt help. i emailed google but they said oh well, something must be wrong.

so what can i do??? how can i find out what is wrong?

Some forums come with a clean url addon. Depending on what board you have you should be able to do a search in google for "<board name> mod rewrite plugin" or "<board name> clean url plugins".

The mod rewrite addons will change your dynamic urls to a static url which will open the doors to spiders.

i use my own forum

Then I would suggest looking into mod rewrite. :)

Apache
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html
www.webforgers.net

IIS
http://www.isapirewrite.com/