significant drop in traffic and users

[interforo]

That’s not it.

It looks like a Google core update that caused the drop.

Why only my forum was affected?

 

[Anatoliy]

Why only my forum was affected?

Your main drop was in direct traffic. Google has nothing to do with that.

 

[interforo]

Your main drop was in direct traffic. Google has nothing to do with that.

So all of a sudden 49% of my users decided to quit
That’s really weird

 

[Anatoliy]

So all of a sudden 49% of my users decided to quit

yep

That’s really weird

agree

 

[dutchbb]

We lost 3 times 30% over the years from google ranking updates. It is ridiculous.

 

[MentaL]

I think a lot will need to be updated in terms of marketing. By example, I've created a TikTok just for more modern brand awareness; https://www.tiktok.com/@ragezonecom

Thankfully, we are well known at what we do having done it for over 20 years but given the current social media landscape, especially being a catch all for any niche, including Reddit, it'll be up to us to keep up-to-date with how the user operates and at least facilitate their browsing styles. Hopefully in doing so, you can retain the traffic.

 

[dutchbb]

M

Thread 'Regarding forums dying out, have people tried petitioning search engines?'

Aug 30, 2024

I posted a related thread: The Discussion Forums Dominating 10,000 Product Review Search Results - Reddit's dominance and the downsides of that

"I didn’t notice a single new or low-post-count forum"

You can make a garbage reddit sub and show up at the top of google search results. But if you put much greater effort into creating your own high-quality forum you barely show up at all. This is obviously terrible design.

Many of us left forums for reddit because it was free and more convenient to subscribe to numerous forums/topics on one site/page. They also advertised...

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[cpvr]

I think a lot will need to be updated in terms of marketing. By example, I've created a TikTok just for more modern brand awareness; https://www.tiktok.com/@ragezonecom

Thankfully, we are well known at what we do having done it for over 20 years but given the current social media landscape, especially being a catch all for any niche, including Reddit, it'll be up to us to keep up-to-date with how the user operates and at least facilitate their browsing styles. Hopefully in doing so, you can retain the traffic.

All social media platforms should be used for marketing purposes. The more places that we use to market our forums, the more growth we’ll all see.

It is vital for our growth to try and tap into multiple avenues.

 

[James]

All social media platforms should be used for marketing purposes. The more places that we use to market our forums, the more growth we’ll all see.

It is vital for our growth to try and tap into multiple avenues.

Not to mention get on the creator programs and it's another potentially significant revenue stream.