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stoo2000 Posted April 6, 2010 Posted April 6, 2010 Search Engine Referal statistics This is the OMOC forum in my signature, prior to the datapoints collected the forum was managed by someone else, and ran on PHPbb. I think this should help settle any questions about SEO capabilities of IP.Board 3.0. I'm wondering if you can tell when the forum was upgraded to 3.0 :ph34r: There was no other change in advertising etc, it's purely a 2.3.6 to 3.0.x upgrade.Changed screenshot so it doesn't include the drop off's where a full month isn't included.
stoo2000 Posted April 6, 2010 Author Posted April 6, 2010 more of a fall actually.. Do you have your monitor upside down by any chance ?
madLyfe Posted April 6, 2010 Posted April 6, 2010 hmmm.. i swear to god the chart didnt look like that last time i looked at it... sorry long night, early morning..
stoo2000 Posted April 6, 2010 Author Posted April 6, 2010 hmmm.. i swear to god the chart didnt look like that last time i looked at it... sorry long night, early morning.. It didn't it included some partial data for incomplete months (this month) obviously it's going to go down alot since this month isn't over. I changed it to remove that confusion :)
openfire Posted August 19, 2010 Posted August 19, 2010 I'm guessing that the upgrade to 3.0 came around June 1st?
stoo2000 Posted August 19, 2010 Author Posted August 19, 2010 I'm guessing that the upgrade to 3.0 came around June 1st? Yep! The site in question saw an immediate increase in search engine traffic.
stoo2000 Posted August 19, 2010 Author Posted August 19, 2010 Just thought I would take a look at the SE traffic from the upgrade until the end of July.
ikillbill Posted August 19, 2010 Posted August 19, 2010 what modules did you install? or just use IPB's default naturally embeded SEO functions?
openfire Posted August 19, 2010 Posted August 19, 2010 what modules did you install? or just use IPB's default naturally embeded SEO functions? +1
majdi Posted August 19, 2010 Posted August 19, 2010 am i the only person in the world having a bad SEO experience since i moved to IPB, it was on the June 29 and here is my search engine traffic graph: i have stoo's sitemap installed and linked to my google webmasters tools and all my old link are being (301) redirected to the IPB FURL one.
LaCollision Posted August 19, 2010 Posted August 19, 2010 Here are my stats, after migrating from 2.3.6 with CSEO to IPB 3.0 on february 10th : Pretty big down turn.
stoo2000 Posted August 19, 2010 Author Posted August 19, 2010 am i the only person in the world having a bad SEO experience since i moved to IPB, it was on the June 29 and here is my search engine traffic graph: i have stoo's sitemap installed and linked to my google webmasters tools and all my old link are being (301) redirected to the IPB FURL one. Here are my stats, after migrating from 2.3.6 with CSEO to IPB 3.0 on february 10th : [img] [/img] Pretty big down turn. That's interesting. I'm not if both are you are tracking visits to your main website too, but my graph shows the websites forum on a sub domain. If you combine your website with a forum on the same domain, your website might affect that traffic too.
stoo2000 Posted August 19, 2010 Author Posted August 19, 2010 what modules did you install? or just use IPB's default naturally embeded SEO functions? The forum does use my sitemap generator, but that wasn't setup right away. The initial upwards direction in the graph was just Ip.Board 3.0
majdi Posted August 19, 2010 Posted August 19, 2010 i dont have a portal nor a cms, my forum is my site
openfire Posted August 19, 2010 Posted August 19, 2010 Here are my stats, after migrating from 2.3.6 with CSEO to IPB 3.0 on february 10th : [img] [/img] Pretty big down turn. This is very interesting. What kind of URLs where you using before the upgrade? FURL, dynamic?
openfire Posted August 19, 2010 Posted August 19, 2010 am i the only person in the world having a bad SEO experience since i moved to IPB, it was on the June 29 and here is my search engine traffic graph: i have stoo's sitemap installed and linked to my google webmasters tools and all my old link are being (301) redirected to the IPB FURL one. What structure were your old links? SEF or Dynamic? Also, is your site installed in the root or in site.com/forum?
majdi Posted August 20, 2010 Posted August 20, 2010 SEF link and my forum have always been under /forum (even before the migration)
openfire Posted August 20, 2010 Posted August 20, 2010 SEF link and my forum have always been under /forum (even before the migration) OK, so before the switch, a URL to one of your posts would have been like this: site.com/forum/interesting-thread and after the switch to IPB your URLs are now: site.com/forum/topic/interesting-thread ?
majdi Posted August 20, 2010 Posted August 20, 2010 i dont remember the exact old structure but its something like that
-Seven- Posted August 20, 2010 Posted August 20, 2010 Ah now i think i dont have to tell u when i have upgraded to IPB3 ;)
Axel Wers Posted August 20, 2010 Posted August 20, 2010 I don't have data from Google Analytics, but since we upgraded to 3.x.x (one year ago) our traffic dropped down. We never reached similar traffic so far than before upgrade.
openfire Posted August 20, 2010 Posted August 20, 2010 I don't have data from Google Analytics, but since we upgraded to 3.x.x (one year ago) our traffic dropped down. We never reached similar traffic so far than before upgrade. What was your URL structure before and after the upgrade?
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