Feedback? How about 4.2 doubling my site traffic

[JEFF MACK]

just give it some time, it will all be squared away.  The traffic will come back.  I also had a site that was VB, and once the initial switch to IPB was done and people got to learn it, it was well received and everyone was happy

[Steve Bullman]

fingers crossed!  Been steadily losing google listings and traffic anyway the past couple years due to an antiquated vbseo plug in mostly.  Hoping this turns that around at least

[AlexWebsites]

I moved a site from vbulletin and vbseo in November and made sure all redirects were in place and especially for the forum and most pages using google analytics as a guide for traffic. Users welcomed the changes but it wasn't until I switched to https in January that my traffic dropped off. It never really recovered after that and is only now showing slight signs of growth. I doubt it's the software and it's more than likely URL structure and indexing. However, I would poll members and make sure there aren't login issues or other things going on to be sure. 

Use google webmaster tools and make sure your sitemap is valid as well as vbseo redirects. Test your high traffic old urls for proper redirect.

[Steve Bullman]

URLs seem to be redirecting fine from what i can tell from going on google.  I have also made the change to https at the same time, which I understand was losing me google ranking...yet you are saying the opposite?

 

[AlexWebsites]

All my sites dropped off after https change. Took 6 months to see it stabilize and show signs of moving back up.

[Steve Bullman]

ughh

can't afford to lose even more traffic!!!

[OrahChris]

I run a fairly mature forum with 32,000 registered user's (side note, our entire company which now has locations in China, literally spawned from a 100 member IPB forum way back when) and have noticed quite a fair bit more interaction from new users. I haven't seen a major traffic bump yet, it's far too early to really comment on that, but I've notice what I suspect are lurkers finally joining in on the conversation. We use a custom theme but many of the new features are integrated into that theme. I suspect ease of signup at the bottom of every topic is probably a contributing factor.  

Since the staff are probably lurking in this area, a quick hi and thanks. I work in my PJ's on most days thanks in part to IPB

[cualupe]

On 7/29/2017 at 8:48 PM, Netherlord said:

You know what I like about IPS?? They listen I like to think I have a voice in shaping things  as do we all.

We pay a premium, of course they listen.

[Netherlord]

5 minutes ago, cualupe said:

We pay a premium, of course they listen.

Plenty of people paying premiums elsewhere. So few listen at those places

[sobrenome]

Waiting for this traffic boost to come...

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On 29/07/2017 at 0:42 PM, AlexWebsites said:

All my sites dropped off after https change. Took 6 months to see it stabilize and show signs of moving back up.

Same problem here...