About This Page: This is a discussion on Excess pages polluting your website? within the Search Engine Optimization forums, part of the Knowledge Base category, at vBulletin Modification Discussions. Interesting experiment being performed by John Scott over at v7n forums. I will keep my opinion until it has run longterm. SERPS and traffic change so often for so many reasons it's hard to gauge the effects of changes
Interesting experiment being performed by John Scott over at v7n forums. I will keep my opinion until it has run longterm. SERPS and traffic change so often for so many reasons it's hard to gauge the effects of changes in a short time.
About a month or so ago, I committed myself, removed pages from v7n that were xxx number of days old, had less than xxx number of page views, and less than xxx number of responses. Just to be sure that I didn?t remove any worthwhile discussions, I went through the list and checked anything that might be remotely worthwhile. And I did not delete the threads - I simply moved them to a private, hidden, admin-access-only forum. Within a couple weeks, I started to see the remaining pages performing much better. Within two weeks, search engine referrals were up 7,000 per day.
Wow, that is amazing. I think I might take a look at lessening my pages on one of my sites when it gets big enough to, really. But for now, I need all the content I can get. :P
