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I hired @Adlago to go through the site in order to get it to validate. He did much of the work.
I recommend Adlago as he does great work. 

We were averaging around 850-900 visitors every day for over a year with Vbulletin 5. Immediately after the migration we dipped below 500 visitors a day...... then it slowly crawled upwards when after two months we began averaging 700 visitors a day....... that is until today. In the last week we've noticed a slight upward fluctuation and today it just busted past the average taking us to a new site record.

Now, before anyone gets really excited one can see that on July 7th I purchased this plugin. Today is less than a month later - August 7th. Now the problem is throughout this month have I not only installed this plugin and seen it work as Google is reporting no-index and actually de-indexing a lot of thin material, but I've also implemented other changes such as making the site W3C Validate. My particular site really suffered from thin content because we use a RSS Importer to create news articles and those are only small clips created from articles and are published. The plugin no-indexed those particular topics but yet when comments filled out below the OP the no index was changed to index.
Since December of 2018 when I migrated from Vbulletin 5 to IPS4 our traffic has been relatively low receiving anywhere from 500-800 visitors in a 24 hour span. Our highest visitors for one 24 hour day had topped out at a little over 900 visitors. I was just surprised to see our daily stats which has now past the mid way tracking for the day. After 12 hours we've set our own personal record using IPS4 and now pushed past 1,048 visitors. If today's trend continues we'll nearly double our traffic. I'm hoping that the changes made in the last 3 weeks or so are finally being noticed by Google's algorithm. The most difficult thing about SEO work is that one has to make changes and wait for Google to reindex the site which can take weeks or months depending on the size. I'm referring to a delayed observation = change, wait, and see.
Your thoughts?
William

Has anyone verified the sitemap doesn't show an updated transition from no index to index? I haven't.

We were averaging around 850-900 visitors every day for over a year with Vbulletin 5. Immediately after the migration we dipped below 500 visitors a day...... then it slowly crawled upwards when after two months we began averaging 700 visitors a day....... that is until today. In the last week we've noticed a slight upward fluctuation and today it just busted past the average taking us to a new site record.

Now, before anyone gets really excited one can see that on July 7th I purchased this plugin. Today is less than a month later - August 7th. Now the problem is throughout this month have I not only installed this plugin and seen it work as Google is reporting no-index and actually de-indexing a lot of thin material, but I've also implemented other changes such as making the site W3C Validate. My particular site really suffered from thin content because we use a RSS Importer to create news articles and those are only small clips created from articles and are published. The plugin no-indexed those particular topics but yet when comments filled out below the OP the no index was changed to index.
Since December of 2018 when I migrated from Vbulletin 5 to IPS4 our traffic has been relatively low receiving anywhere from 500-800 visitors in a 24 hour span. Our highest visitors for one 24 hour day had topped out at a little over 900 visitors. I was just surprised to see our daily stats which has now past the mid way tracking for the day. After 12 hours we've set our own personal record using IPS4 and now pushed past 1,048 visitors. If today's trend continues we'll nearly double our traffic. I'm hoping that the changes made in the last 3 weeks or so are finally being noticed by Google's algorithm. The most difficult thing about SEO work is that one has to make changes and wait for Google to reindex the site which can take weeks or months depending on the size. I'm referring to a delayed observation = change, wait, and see.
Your thoughts?
William

Please ignore. Issue resolved.

In this case, the "userPhoto" is loaded through a template
core_front_system/searchResult
and probably has no connection to the this JS in a global template.
PS. In your forum this is already fixed.

Not something I checked!

Looks like the page is then made to index.
That was one my initial concerns. I run a RSS news feed import and the brief articles (one sentence) created by the rss importer are no index. But as replies are made it appears that the page is then becomes or are made index.
For example, examining the "source" and looking at https://www.christforums.com/forums/topic/15597-president-trump-wall/
The following occurs: <meta name="robots" content="index">
However, a short article such as this: https://www.christforums.com/forums/topic/26213-donald-trump-rock-star-welcome-for-ilhan-omar-staged-in-minnesota/
<meta name="robots" content="noindex">

Looks like the page is then made to index.
That was one my initial concerns. I run a RSS news feed import and the brief articles (one sentence) created by the rss importer are no index. But as replies are made it appears that the page is then becomes or are made index.
For example, examining the "source" and looking at https://www.christforums.com/forums/topic/15597-president-trump-wall/
The following occurs: <meta name="robots" content="index">
However, a short article such as this: https://www.christforums.com/forums/topic/26213-donald-trump-rock-star-welcome-for-ilhan-omar-staged-in-minnesota/
<meta name="robots" content="noindex">

What happens if the question posed is short, and less than 100 words but the replies are rich and valuable in keywords and education?

You’re missing what that means for the users. It‘ not like they see a blank screen until the 2 MB are fully loaded. The page rendering will start exactly at the same time, with or without lazyload, if the image dimensions are known. With lazyload, there might be a tiny loading advantage above-the-fold and then a disadvantage of newly introduced wait time while scrolling. Without lazyload you don’t have that scrolling wait time, but a slightly slower above-the-fold finish time. Again, I tested this and could not see clear benefits for a typical use of my template products and even a considerably worse experience in some cases. 
You could, but I do not recommend it. If you modify any template, you can’t receive updates for it anymore. 
Also keep in mind that native browser lazyload is coming. I’m happy to support that in the future, since it is a proper and elegant solution. JavaScript-based lazyload really is not. 

How can I add lazy load to the template? Thanks

I think we need to wait for the entire site to be reindexed during which time no-index might be dropped. I suspect this process may take 8-12 weeks. Until then!

Hi
I would like to hightlight a plugin i recently ordered to @DawPi :
This plugin automatically adds a noindex to all topics containing less than XXX words (lets say 100 words for instance) you can update the number anytime and reset the noindex
This is a powerful SEO plugin that helps to avoid Google Panda penalty that might happen on communities with large numbers of thin content topics
I recommend it !
 
 
 

Just purchased the plugin and willing to give it a shot. I see the general consensus on the web is that Panda considers less than 250 words thin content.
I'm setting the minimum word count at 100 words to begin.

Just purchased the plugin and willing to give it a shot. I see the general consensus on the web is that Panda considers less than 250 words thin content.
I'm setting the minimum word count at 100 words to begin.

Just purchased the plugin and willing to give it a shot. I see the general consensus on the web is that Panda considers less than 250 words thin content.
I'm setting the minimum word count at 100 words to begin.

Just purchased the plugin and willing to give it a shot. I see the general consensus on the web is that Panda considers less than 250 words thin content.
I'm setting the minimum word count at 100 words to begin.

Done. I did a forum search as well but didn't see any definitive answers. Looks like it is a browser compatibility issue. I also noticed some WYSIWYG boxes not displaying in Safari while in the AdminCP panel.

Best bet is to fill out a support ticket because there's no guarantee support will see this.

This still needs a fix too!

When I tried using the unsubscribe link on another user's account when viewing the newsletter on the site, it works.  It does unsubscribe and gives me the unsubscribe page.  
When I tried to use the unsubscribe link on the user's account when viewing the newsletter by email, I get an error.  It takes me to the URL mycommunity.com/newsletters/unsubscribe/&key=*%7Cunsubscribe_key%7C*.  The error is the standard "The page you requested does not exist. Error code: 1S160/2"
So yes, I can confirm your error. 
I'd like to clarify this statement after viewing the email-version of the newsletter.  
The link DOES display properly in email.  It does NOT display on the site version.  

Did you try using the unsubscribe link? The code does display the link but when I hit it I recieved an error. 
Just wondering if anyone else has this issue?