Google.com, Yahoo.com etc reading this board?, What does this mean? Options

[blissyu2]

I have bookmarked the main page, and when I click on it sometimes it says that there are e.g. 1 member and 2 guests reading, and it says "Blissyu2, Google.com, Yahoo.com". Why does it say this? What does it mean? Does this mean that Google.com and Yahoo.com spiders are reading the forum or someone is doing a search and finding this page via their caches or what? Does anyone have any idea what it means?

[Selina]

We have a google sitemaps account yeah. I disabled sitemapping though to see how it goes - I think quite possibly googlebot will crawl the pages better on it's own than relying on that mod which doesn't make proper sitemap syntax files - when the sitemap was enabled it was set up to read the files and has an account, yeah

[Blu Aardvark]

We have a google sitemaps account yeah. I disabled sitemapping though to see how it goes - I think quite possibly googlebot will crawl the pages better on it's own than relying on that mod which doesn't make proper sitemap syntax files - when the sitemap was enabled it was set up to read the files and has an account, yeah

When the sitemap was set up, it didn't list any forums to index, and therefore, none were indexed. Since that has been changed (you have to list them by forum id, comma seperated, in the ACP options for Sitemapping), google is indexing us. Whether or not it was the sitemap config, or something else, I dunno. But we're there now.

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:wikipediareview.com