Google and Invision Community

[TheWorldNewsMedia.org]

Has anyone else noticed that IPS improves stuff according to what Google wants to see (code-wise).....

IPS makes the changes...

wait a few months..... Google decides it doesn't like something else ... maybe because IPS sites start showing up in search results?

Then Google sends a "warning" about some obscure IPS feature or lack thereof....

Google rankings suffer....

Rinse...

Lather...

Repeat....

 

Or is it just me? 

[jesuralem]

Google basically dictates the whole internet standard with threats that your ranking will drop off you don't comply.

So everybody complies, ips as well as everybody else.

[Matt]

Yes, Google waits until Invision Community installations get indexed and then immediately changes its algorithm just to spite us.

[Jennifer M]

That's only because google can't handle us.

[Dll]

8 hours ago, TheWorldNewsMedia.org said:

Or is it just me? 

This.

[tonyv]

6 hours ago, jesuralem said:

Google basically dictates the whole internet standard with threats that your ranking will drop off you don't comply.

Imagine going through life worrying about this? 🙄

[Jennifer M]

2 hours ago, tonyv said:

Imagine going through life worrying about this? 🙄

Welcome to life at IPS.

[Fast Lane!]

Wow.  lol.  I opened this topic expecting something else.  Worth a chuckle and to see that the IPB staff also has a sense of humor :-p.

[TheWorldNewsMedia.org]

LOL..... Evidently it was just me.

Thanks for the education guys.... I needed that.

A little perspective never hurts

[tonyv]

Some years ago, before it went to cloud, I htaccess banned google IPs. I only allowed them again because a few members complained that their stuff wasn't showing up in search results. I checked for myself, and it was true. I myself would have left it banned, but I reinstated google. Did it for my members.