Razasharp
Well-known member
We had a really interesting discussion on Xenadmins last week - about forums falling out of favour with Google. There were some great points made in the thread, and particularly from forum seo expert Adam H, with which I agreed:
And Discourse is doing the same for forums - have a look here: http://community.badvoltage.org/t/welcome-and-introductions/16 and how the thread is summarised at the top - no need to trail through pages, it's all there for you. Google will love this, they have already stressed that if a site is good for a user it will count towards page rank.
Anyway - what do you think? Do you agree? Disagree?
I'd love to hear what @Mike and @Kier think too - will we see something like this in XF soon?
Some really good points there Adam - I think the key point you make, is where on a forum you have to trail through pages of posts to find an answer, but on custom sites, like SO and yahoo answers, what the user is looking for is much easier to find as it's usually right there at the top.
And Discourse is doing the same for forums - have a look here: http://community.badvoltage.org/t/welcome-and-introductions/16 and how the thread is summarised at the top - no need to trail through pages, it's all there for you. Google will love this, they have already stressed that if a site is good for a user it will count towards page rank.
Anyway - what do you think? Do you agree? Disagree?
I'd love to hear what @Mike and @Kier think too - will we see something like this in XF soon?