Have most forums lost traffic from Google in Aug/Sep/Oct 2018?

[dutchbb]

Yes, but how would that affect traffic?

If it has effect on google ranking, yes. Nobody knows all the factors google uses and they adjust this multiple times a year. So could be.

 

[Mr Lucky]

If it has effect on google ranking, yes. Nobody knows all the factors google uses and they adjust this multiple times a year. So could be.

OK I get that, but what I'm saying is I can't see any difference between how Google would rank xf1 vs xf2.

What is the difference in xf2 that would have any effect on Google?

 

[dutchbb]

OK I get that, but what I'm saying is I can't see any difference between how Google would rank xf1 vs xf2.

What is the difference in xf2 that would have any effect on Google?

Code for one. Check a XF1 and XF2 forum with w3c validator https://validator.w3.org/

And url structure and placement, this could have an effect how google crawls and ranks url's.

 

[Triops]

My site thankfully didn't drop in the last months, and it is a 1.5. We will see. I use Cloudflare which did NOT speed up page delivery, but increased it by 200-300ms. So xf1. 5 or speed cannot be the main reasons.

 

[Mr Lucky]

Code for one. Check a XF1 and XF2 forum with w3c validator https://validator.w3.org/

And url structure and placement, this could have an effect how google crawls and ranks url's.

I doubt it would have an significant effect, my own experience is that installing xf2 had no effect at all on Google.

(Installed Dec 2017)

 

[dutchbb]

Ok, good to know.

Could also be related to 'health' sites for some. In combination with a lot of sites transfering to mobile first index.

Also in my case i also saw an increase in visits to a pdf from the US and an overall drop in total traffic around the same time., I blocked those yesterday and saw a 30% drop.

 

[nelson vergel]

I am just posting here to see if anyone has any insights since the last post on Dec 21 2018. Thanks

 

[dethfire]

I am just posting here to see if anyone has any insights since the last post on Dec 21 2018. Thanks

Google devalued user generation content across the board as far back as 2012

 

[Dakis]

I actually had my traffic seeing a big spike since August 2018 - the increase continued in Sep-Oct-Nov-Dec, and hit growth numbers I haven't seen in 10 years, so maybe my site landed on the positive end of those updates? Who knows with google.

 

[nrep]

Another big drop in Google traffic to UGC sites this month - anyone else see the same?

 

[Miacommunity]

Another big drop in Google traffic to UGC sites this month - anyone else see the same?

UGC = ?

 

[nrep]

UGC = ?

UGC = user generated content. i.e. forums .

 

[Walter]

Another big drop in Google traffic to UGC sites this month - anyone else see the same?

So far not. Steady flow.

 

[dethfire]

Yeah we were hit super hard around the 12th. There have been a bunch of Google updates this month.

 

[vij]

Yeah we were hit super hard around the 12th. There have been a bunch of Google updates this month.

Same here
Google seems to be making forums less relevant. They don't like users pooling elsewhere on small websites.