Improving SEO to compete with older forum competitor

[Forsaken]

I've looked at @Bob's Showcase one before and it seemed to be overkill for showcasing an aquarium. I can certainly see it as the "garage" that the sites use. I tried doing something similar with Xenforo's Media add-on but didn't really work well.

It comes down to how you use and configure it, as it can be as simple or complex as you make it. You can use it very much like you would Resource Manager, or you could go over the top and use it as a database for a game (which I have done in the past).

It allows for building better presentation for member projects, which is going to be one of the bigger draws to your site.

 

[ArtG]

Thanks. I'm going to research it a bit more and see how I can imagine it working to showcase a member's aquarium.

I appreciate you caring enough to share your knowledge.

 

[Bob]

it seemed to be overkill for showcasing an aquarium.

Funny... its was an aquarium site that talked me into developing Showcase in the first place Hit me up in private so I can give you a copy of Showcase to test

 

[JustinHawk]

I can help you with the SEO, Mostly Technical SEO. We have tried it so far on many clients website

The results for some are impressive as their organic traffic keeps on growing



and some are just okay, it just doubled and stopped but they are at to top of their niche now.



You can DM me if you are interested.

 

[avalanch]

I can help you with the SEO, Mostly Technical SEO. We have tried it so far on many clients website

The results for some are impressive as their organic traffic keeps on growing

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and some are just okay, it just doubled and stopped but they are at to top of their niche now.

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You can DM me if you are interested.

I'm not too familiar with what "technical seo" means. Can you elaborate?

 

[RichDevman]

Anyone with SEO experience that is current to today's search engines, specifically Google?

I am competing in a market that has very old forums that have all migrated to Xenforo. Most of these forums are 15+ years old. Their organic keyword numbers are in the thousands compared to my hundreds.

Other than waiting 15+ years to let Google marinate on my site and members to add thousands of posts, any suggestions on improving SEO and indexing of pages?

I'm specifically asking about on page SEO improvements and things I can do technically. I do realize that putting up great content that people want to read is the best formula. I'm working on that. Asking for other things to tweak.

I appreciate it!

My agencies do seo and my forum does very well.

Yes, you need content but you also need an internal linking structure. You also need back links, citations and Google stacks. Start with the internal linking.

 

[RichDevman]

I can help you with the SEO, Mostly Technical SEO. We have tried it so far on many clients website

The results for some are impressive as their organic traffic keeps on growing

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and some are just okay, it just doubled and stopped but they are at to top of their niche now.

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You can DM me if you are interested.

Technical seo alone is not going to get anyone to the top of Google. No offense. They must have a great backlink profile and lots of activity.

 

[JustinHawk]

No offense. They must have a great backlink profile and lots of activity.

None taken! Website launched on April 1 and within days we were Ranking on Top Pages on Google. Zero Backlinks :}

 

[RichDevman]

Well it’s hard for me to assess that without knowing the url but I’m sure you know just as well I do that it’s not technical seo and site structure that’s doing that.