AzzidReign
Well-known member
Hard telling with Google tbh. They are always tweaking their algorithm and I wouldn't put it past them to put forums at a much lower weight as they see forums as non-authoritative where as blog posts where there is proper mark up on the Author, and that author alone could carry a higher weight in the algorithm if seen as an authority in a niche. That fact alone could be a big part of forum's issues.Agreed and have done so, but they're all mostly very varied. I don't know what it is. Can't quite put my finger on it.
We all (mostly) know that content is king et al, but this is weird. Some of our content is not being indexed and registered even though it's open & without duplicates.
I think they're (Google) hitting forums for some reason possibly? Maybe it's the structure - mobile Vs /... who knows?
Just don't know why. When checking, everything comes back fine. But not indexed.
Grrr..!
Duplicate content could very well be an issue though.
I wonder if "abc.com/event/blah blah " would be seen as duplicate content?
I mean is as much as would similar threads under one category, started the same way, would be viewed as duplicate content? My initial thoughts would be yes, but the content would be slightly different wouldn't it?
When looking at the ones not indexed, they are either thin content or OLD threads. Google wants to see content constantly updated so if a thread goes to the wayside, Google will eventually drop that from their index since that content is now "outdated" in their eyes. Which is sad, because a lot of my "outdated" information is actually still current and people are beginning to search for it again (og Xbox modding). The guides don't change and there has been no new development in the market that we haven't already hit on.