Mr Lucky
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Today's (second) suggestion is to batch update threads to either noindex or index. Setting noindex for threads can help your "Google "crawl budget" if you tell it not to index certain topics (e.g. off topic posts) or posts with no replies.
Scenario 1:
Noindex old threads with no replies. You may find that Google doesn't index some these anyway, but IMO is still worth doing.
Scenario 2:
You want to simplify your user interface and merge some or all forums into one, and instead of relying on (many different) forums and categories you use prefix filtering. I've seen quite a few people recommending this to anyone who has loads of forums/subforums.
This can (and does) make your forum more usable for people who are more used to social media. One forum I use is on Flarum software and it work's like this.
But the problem is you lose the advantage of being able to set index/noindex per forum, so in this sort of case it would be ideal to set noindex by thread prefix or tag
So it would also be useful to use batch thread update to set tags as well for a very versatile SOE indexing/noindexing system
Scenario 1:
Noindex old threads with no replies. You may find that Google doesn't index some these anyway, but IMO is still worth doing.
Scenario 2:
You want to simplify your user interface and merge some or all forums into one, and instead of relying on (many different) forums and categories you use prefix filtering. I've seen quite a few people recommending this to anyone who has loads of forums/subforums.
This can (and does) make your forum more usable for people who are more used to social media. One forum I use is on Flarum software and it work's like this.
But the problem is you lose the advantage of being able to set index/noindex per forum, so in this sort of case it would be ideal to set noindex by thread prefix or tag
So it would also be useful to use batch thread update to set tags as well for a very versatile SOE indexing/noindexing system
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