Forum dropped from 90,000 - 60,000

[nkblaze]

I usually receive 90,000+ page views daily but recently it dropped to 60,000 and my forum became so inactive.
Is there anything I can do?

[Joe Ward]

Hi Chad,

Have you been able to determine, using Google Analytics, or another stats program what the source of the drop in visits was?

Was it definitely a search engine source such as Google? Was there a particular page you were getting a lot of traffic for that has dropped, or is it just an average decline of traffic.

How much has your long tail changed before and after the traffic drop?
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Are there any error messages being displayed in your Google Webmaster control panel?
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Have you moved servers, experienced any down time, etc?

[nkblaze]

(Image Check your PM Joe)
I will check the Long tail thread out.
My forum is never down and I didn't move servers.
There are sure alot of errors.
Errors for URLs in Sitemaps : 23
HTTP errors : 22
Not found : 3,328
URLs not followed : 38
Total: 3,411

[Joe Ward]

What type of pages are coming up as not found?

[nkblaze]

Some of the links were .com changed my forum to /forum and rest i guess are threads i removed?

[Joe Ward]

When did you do the /forum/ update?

[nkblaze]

Because I use www.domain.com as my portal.

[Joe Ward]

Hi Chad,

I meant "when", not "why". Was it at the same time you installed vBSEO or afterwards?

If you have not already, please open a support ticket and ask staff for instructions on a custom .htaccess instruction you can add to send root level forum requests (old version) the new /forum/ level. While your sitemap is already taking care of this, it can be helpful in re-directing any of the old traffic that is still coming in to root.
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[nkblaze]

I changed it to /forum before I purchased vbseo