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| Few Quick Tips for mid sized forums
Recently my site went from 400 pages indexed to 20,000 pages indexed. The site is less than a year old. These are a few things that I've done to increase ease of content being indexed. 1. Make your listed post in threads longer. I would suggest going 20 to 25 post 2. Use the sitemap showing up at the bottom of the site. I know many will think it may look bad but I have to admit the spiders took to it like a fly on.. well you know the rest. I would highly recommend letting them spider the sitemap. Doing well in search results even got out the sandbox recently. I don't think my site would have been in this position when I was using another free board or just the standard version of vB... |
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| Re: Few Quick Tips for mid sized forums
Thanks for the tips Quote:
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| Re: Few Quick Tips for mid sized forums
No problem it just brings more content to each page. Hope it brings an increase to user's forums...
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| Re: Few Quick Tips for mid sized forums
Having just done that on NZB .. I should re-generate my sitemap now, yes? (Given that the number of showthread pages will have halved...and any of the Threads with many many posts will have lost several of their URLs.)
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| Re: Few Quick Tips for mid sized forums
I've always used 30 posts per page and 30 threads per page since my site was started.
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| Re: Few Quick Tips for mid sized forums Quote:
Although the total number of SERPS will get reduced theoretically by 50%, this may have a positive SEO impact and most importantly, IMO it improves the user experience by allowing a more fluid read on longer threads, taking the forumsphere one step closer to the blogosphere (or the other way around
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| Re: Few Quick Tips for mid sized forums
I would recommend (for sites that are already doing well with indexing) to NOT change this setting as it can cause SERP fluctuation as outlined above (re: re-pagination).
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| Re: Few Quick Tips for mid sized forums
Will do this on my community too. Thanks for the tip
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| Re: Few Quick Tips for mid sized forums
I have been using 40 threads in one page and 35 posts, works fine for me.
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My content is good enough not to warrant this. =D
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2. Use the sitemap showing up at the bottom of the site. What is this, i dont see this at the bottom of my site. For unregistered users i do see a whole bunch of numbered links at the bottom, what is that? Thanks. |
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no matter found it in the vbSEO settings, thanks...ill be trying this out Peace |
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i use 25 posts per page, and 50 threads per forumview page as default options. as for the sitemap links, i recommend turning it off and disabling the archive/sitemap altogether, including a robots.txt exclusion of /archive/ or /sitemap/, depending on how you have it set up. all it does is pull weight away from your REAL content. the archive is great for standard vb, but with vbseo, i feel it is entirely un-needed. if your archive is out-ranking your real showthread pages, its probably because your skin sucks. |
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Hm, I do not know why Is it recommended to change this to higher values? I'm not really an expert in SEO, but how it was mentioned before Quote:
I would be pleased, if you can describe advantages and disadvantages of such a change. Thanks in advance! |
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