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Hi J, Did you see Miriam's response to both of your questions? Just checking... Christy

If the profiles were in their own directory, like domain.com/profile/user1, it'd be easy to exclude /profile/ in robots.txt. However, your profiles look like they're off the root. In your software system, is there any way to add a noindex tag to profile pages, or make any type of control over indexing of types of pages? Is there one main section (folder) of your website that has content that you want optimized? You could also set up a campaign for just that folder, such as domain.com/myimportantcontent/.

Do you need customers/users to come in on the first page? You may need to make the site, so what you want visitors to accomplish can be done from every page. I have pages that outrank my homepage for keywords, but if I want the visitor to do a certain thing I tailor that page to generate the outcome I want rather than trying to get them back to the home page. Also some of your pages are probably on the first page because of the uniqueness of content withing that forum. I also noticed you haven't posted on your blog since February of 2011. If you don't think your content is important enough to talk about, then Google might not think it is important enough to index? Just a thought.