Just thought someone might like to know that your results in Google are plummeting since upgrading to vBulletin 5. I'll update this thread weekly or bi-weekly to show the drop in the mount of pages indexed in Google according to using the querey "site:http://www.vbulletin.com
I started checking this last month on suspicion that vB5 is bad, very bad for SEO.
5-24-13 to 5-31-13 Search results returned about 2,560,000 results
6-1-13 to 6-8-13 Search results returned about 2,225,000 results
6-9-13 to 6-16-13 Search results returned about 1,975,000 results
6-17-13 to 6-23-13 Search results returned about 1,761,000 results
6-24-13 to 6-29-13 (present day) Search results returned about 1,650,000 results
Yes we can debate this metric as a measure of SEO all you want, but the fact remains that if pages aren't indexed, then they can't be returned as results for search queries.
Anyone else with similar experience.
I started checking this last month on suspicion that vB5 is bad, very bad for SEO.
5-24-13 to 5-31-13 Search results returned about 2,560,000 results
6-1-13 to 6-8-13 Search results returned about 2,225,000 results
6-9-13 to 6-16-13 Search results returned about 1,975,000 results
6-17-13 to 6-23-13 Search results returned about 1,761,000 results
6-24-13 to 6-29-13 (present day) Search results returned about 1,650,000 results
Yes we can debate this metric as a measure of SEO all you want, but the fact remains that if pages aren't indexed, then they can't be returned as results for search queries.
Anyone else with similar experience.
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