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[Sandy]

Tell me about it, it's blowing a gale and piddling down here too, this od mans getting sick of it..

[Sandy]

I'm thinking about building an ark now, day 3 of really heavy rain here.. :(

[Skyon Archer]

Go to your sink. Make sure the stopper isn't blocking the drain. You'll be fine

[Sandy]

[Sandy]

Anyone else getting weather that's all over the place at present? Yesterday we had a nice fine 28 degree celsius day, today however is dull and overcast and we need heaters on as it's only 14 degrees.. Global warming, fact or fiction?

The strange thing is that Australia is having a bit of a drought and their bushfire season has started, it's only mid spring here too..

[Sandy]

Another odd morning site wise, I had some 14 guests on the site that's not advertised anywhere and 4 on the site listed here, Google seems to like the other site, it's bots are in every day, strange how things work out some days..

[Skyon Archer]

One problem is your domain.  It is a subdomain of createmybb4.com

Subdomains do not inherit rank or bonus from the parent domain.  

According to Moz:

Search engines keep different metrics for domains than they do for subdomains, so even though Google itself has stated that — from a ranking perspective — content in subdomains and subdirectories is treated roughly equally, it's still recommended that webmasters place link-worthy content like blogs in subfolders rather than subdomains (i.e. www.example.com/blog/ rather than blog.example.com).

Here's some advice:
1. You need meta tags.  You really need a description meta tag.
Currently, if someone does see your result in Google, they see something like this:

Sandy's Place
https://sandysplace.createmybb4.com/
Portal Search Member List Calendar Help Hello There, Guest! Login Register Login Username: Password: Lost Password? Remember me Remove Ads Sandy's Place Th ...

A description tag would assist the search engine in putting a tagline or description there instead of the text retrieved from your page. Which, by the way, is the links to your menu bar and log in page!

The goal of the rich snippet is to best represent and describe each result and explain how it relates to the user's query.
To improve your search previews you need to work on tags title, tags meta description, and URLs. 

To improve your search preview you have to work to increase the scores obtained with: tag <title>, the tag <meta description> and your URL

2. Title tag is not optimized

Titles are critical to giving users a quick insight into the content of a result and why it’s relevant to their query. It's often the primary piece of information used to decide which result to click on, so it's important to use high-quality titles on your web pages.

The title seems too short, it should be between 55 and 66 characters.
Missing tag <H1> in your page.
Enter it and make sure that the two tags have a very similar textual content.

3. The textual content is not optimized

Quality content to be indexed by search engine spiders is vital

Your index page includes 187 words of which 31 unique.  Improve your page's textual content

4. No keyword of the tag h1 is included in the body of the page. Works harder on the text of your page to improve coherence between these keywords and the tag h1 to improve even more the subject matter of your site.

Before working on these keywords you need to enter the <h1> tag.

5. There are 8/55 tag <a> with title attribute.

All links should include the title attribute to clearly identify what you are linking to so the search engine has a clear understanding of what you are linking to.

6. There are no microdata in you website.

This page missing tags offered by microdata http://schema.org enter them on your page to increase your visual impact on the search engines.

[Sandy]

Beeping Windows 10, every so often it decides to start loading when I turn on, then it stops dead, so have to sit on the power off and restart again a minute later.. Had to do that twice a while ago, I did a browser clear and disc clean last night before turning off, no defrag though as I only did that on friday night..

A pity I don't have Windows 7 Pro software or I'd go back to that rather than use this c rap Windoze 10..

[Sandy]

Finally got the shoutbox installed on my other site a few hours ago, it's supposed to be a plugin that's a one click and it's done like the old Zetaboards themes, turns out codes had to be added to he site first.. Luckily this old dummy got some help from someone on support and it was done in no time..

[Skyon Archer]

Awesome!

Now if I want to shout at somebody, I have somewhere to go

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Meta tags to be placed before the closing </head> tag of your theme:

Code:

<meta name="title" content="Sandy's Place">
<meta name="description" content="A site for New Zealand history and chat, and a General Chat area too.">

<!-- Open Graph / Facebook -->
<meta property="og:type" content="website">
<meta property="og:url" content="https://sandysplace.createmybb4.com/">
<meta property="og:title" content="Sandy's Place">
<meta property="og:description" content="A site for New Zealand history and chat, and a General Chat area too.">
<meta property="og:image" content="https://imgzb.com/images/2019/09/26/BPMZU.md.jpg">

<!-- Twitter -->
<meta property="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image">
<meta property="twitter:url" content="https://sandysplace.createmybb4.com/">
<meta property="twitter:title" content="Sandy's Place">
<meta property="twitter:description" content="A site for New Zealand history and chat, and a General Chat area too.">
<meta property="twitter:image" content="https://imgzb.com/images/2019/09/26/BPMZU.md.jpg">