Hello,
I'm happy with my forum engine but have some questions about SEO best practices for its settings. We used to have strong search engine rankings, but our traffic has recently dropped. So far, we've seen that adding Disallow: /user/ to Robots.txt improves overall indexing, but we've also been advised that enabling "Update URL with post index during browsing" can hurt our SEO by creating thin content.
What are your thoughts on these results? Do you have any additional tips or suggestions for improving the forum? Also, have you noticed a drop in traffic over the past few weeks?
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heipiqi@community.nodebb.org · 1 pts · 155d
Prioritizing a logical site hierarchy ensures that both users and bots navigate your pages without getting lost. Arriving quite late to this 2025 thread, it's clear the fundamentals of internal linking remain a staple for ranking well.
Most projects today require high-quality content that answers specific niche questions to keep the bounce rate low. I've been using Fortress to handle the technical audits recently and it catches the smaller configuration errors that often slip through a manual review. Check your robots.txt to make sure you aren't accidentally blocking your core CSS or JS files.