Remove excess pages for higher rankings

**Joe Ward** · 04-30-2007 11:55 AM

I suppose if you took it a step further, you could also:

1. Give VIP users auto-approval on all threads
1. Give auto-approval to threads containing whitelist content words

**MaestroX** · 04-30-2007 02:37 PM

Maybe just excluding a forum to be indexed would be sufficient (adding re=no follow to urls and preventing it being added to the sitemap). I have an About You forum where members introduce themselves. Whereas this is good for community spirit its junk for SE's

**BamaStangGuy** · 04-30-2007 02:58 PM

I can see how it would help especially if the old threads have 0 backlinks going to them. I'm not a fan of removing any threads from view though.

**Mike** · 04-30-2007 06:06 PM

Originally Posted by Joe Ward

Example: A page does not generate any clickthroughs, from any search engine, for 6 months. It would be deleted or made visible to members only.

This is basically what I did by creating a subforum for my major forums and moving the old posts in there and making it member access only.

Going somewhat by John Scott's idea, anything over a year (last post) old that hasn't had X number of views, gets moved. The threads are still open and can be replied to by members, so nothing is lost to them, and hopefully it allows search engine to more easily rank my newer content.

I also took my introductions, site announcements, and "comments/help" forum and made that entire category viewable by members only.

**BamaStangGuy** · 04-30-2007 10:05 PM

I hate you guys. You got me thinking about this now.

**Code Monkey** · 05-01-2007 12:09 AM

One thing you can do is open up SHOWTHREAD_SHOWPOST and below the <head> element add

Code:

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">

**Mike** · 09-16-2007 10:01 AM

For those who have given this a try, how has it done for your forum?

**Mike** · 09-20-2007 09:46 AM

Originally Posted by Mike

For those who have given this a try, how has it done for your forum?

Guess not

Anyway, reason I asked is because in John Scott's blog, he used the factor of his alexa ranking going from around the 2,000 range, up to 700. It seems though that that spike was only temporary, and long term, this strategy may have done no good at all, as the alexa ranking has been back down to where it was for his site for quite some time now.

I commented to his blog about this, but haven't seen the comment show up so far.

Was just wondering if anybody else had tried this, and gotten any positive results from it.

**hornstar6969** · 01-21-2008 03:51 AM

I have a introduce yourself section and a spam section. I am now thinking of making this viewable to only members.

Would this be recommended by vbseo staff?

**Joe Ward** · 01-22-2008 10:16 PM

Originally Posted by hornstar6969

I have a introduce yourself section and a spam section. I am now thinking of making this viewable to only members.

Would this be recommended by vbseo staff?

Any thread can generate traffic. However, I like the idea of blocking some less valuable content forums from guests/bots. Introductions and spam are good choices, particularly for big boards that already have tons of more on-target content.

**seo_india** · 03-09-2008 03:32 AM

Originally Posted by MaestroX

Very good point for some new webmasters.

Quality is more important than quantity

Excess duplicate pages can hamper your rankings on search engines.

It is best to ensure that content is unique and informative

**Joe Ward** · 03-09-2008 01:28 PM

Originally Posted by hornstar6969

I have a introduce yourself section and a spam section. I am now thinking of making this viewable to only members.

Would this be recommended by vbseo staff?

Check your stats to see if this area generates any significant traffic. Depending on the type of site, sometimes you actually can get a small extra traffic stream.

However, if it's not yielding any valuable traffic, then block it to boost your crawling efficiency and general increase the total quality value of all remaining pages that you present to the search engines.

**seo_india** · 04-20-2008 05:52 AM

Interesting tips there. However, one should publish articles within its niche.

Search engines will give your website higher rankings, if you add quality content to your website. Moreover your content should be related to your website's business theme

**Joe Ward** · 04-23-2008 02:22 PM

Hi Jamie - you have some good knowledge of SEO. Do you have a forum, or client's with forums running vBulletin?

**Rik Brown** · 06-13-2008 02:41 PM

What we do is delete non-popular threads via a mysql query that checks the number of "thread views" against a set date (say one year ago) in specifically listed forums. If the amount of views is low in our opinion, those threads are deleted from the database with another query. We do temper this based on forum. Some forums we bypass completely.

We do several queries based on 6 months, 1 year, 3 years, etc. If Google and our own users aren't accessing the threads by a continually growing number of views over time, those threads get deleted (we assume most growth will be at the front end and less growth in aging threads).

Finally, since we did the above directly with mysql (bypassing vb), we need to do some vb maintenance. We run the following maintenance items:

1) Remove Orphaned threads
2) Remove Orphaned posts
3) Rebuild similar threads

The above works well for us. We get rid of threads in which neither our users nor Google (and other search engines) have interest.

I haven't programmed in php for 2 years but imagine someone could whip off a hack to do this much better in a few hours at most. Most important item is to have multiple age breaks and temper it differently for each forum.

Hope that helps others. -- Rik

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