Almost 3 weeks ago we migrated an old forum from myBB to Discourse , bringing all the content and creating proper 301 redirects for all old threads, categories and topics. Since the move, our incoming traffic from search engine has dropped over 20%, so far inexplicably. Our SEO consultant has highli…

OLD_URL has some accrued relevance score in Google. It has not changed in a long time, so Google is going to wait quite awhile before it crawls it again. NEW_URL, of course, has identical content to OLD_URL but no relevance score. We both know that OLD_URL has been changed to a 301 redirect leading…

[image] smaffulli: I knew that switching to Discourse would have an impact Go to any other script have the same effect. Ranking in search engines depends on a number of parameters. To the old version of the site Google has developed a level of trust. He determined the frequency of scans and…

Like we keep saying, you need to wait at least three months. At least. Maybe more. If you are looking for quick fixes, SWITCH BACK TO YOUR OLD SOFTWARE.

[image] notriddle: Maybe you could make a sitemap with the old URLs and a recent updated date, so that Googlebot will recrawl all of the old URLs and learn about the 301 redirects? I like this suggestion, I’ll do it. Another area I’m investigating is the default nginx rate limits as well, as…

[image] smaffulli: So Google notices a switch to a better URL structure, same content, pretty presentation and penalizes the new pages? Google is not penalizing anything. It just needs to adjust. Adjusting takes time. Be patient :smiley:

OK. You go to a grocery store all the time. Ad old, mom-n-pop style, old-60’s store. Very reputable. You trust it. You tell your friends that their goods there have good quality and come from reputable sources. Then they moved to a new, shiny location. With a brand-new store, and all new face…

[image] michaeld: Google is not penalizing anything How would you describe when many of the top performing pages have lost their top-10 status in the Google results page and are now on page 2? Google is indexing the site at the rate of 8-10k pages a day, up from the 2k/day average before the…

Seems like you do not have many active members engaging in the threads on your site. You have to give it some time and try to get some of your members to help promote your forum. Encourage your members to start threads. This is just an outside observation, based on the reply counts. Dont worry so m…

[image] pfaffman: Have you tried the Discourse Sitemap Plugin? Yes, it’s running in production now.

Massive traffic drop from Google searches after migrating from myBB

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) October 9, 2017, 5:33pm 21

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