Merge some forums?

Discussion in 'Admin Talk Support & Feedback' started by Vekseid, May 25, 2010.

  1. Brandon

    Brandon Regular Member

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    I just finished merging several of the forums up to help limit any confusion.
    Thoughts?
     
  2. Cerberus

    Cerberus Admin Talk Staff

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    I guess I am in this rather late, but before I would have merged forums, I would have checked the SEO value of various forums. Where they rank? What keywords? Traffic wise? And so on and so forth. I am all for merging forums, but sometimes once they are established and indexed, you can kill off a good bit of traffic by dissolving them into another. This is just something I dont see mentioned in the ongoing conversation. And something people tend to forget about. I have learned the hard way before by killing off one of my best keywords when merging forums together
     
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    Valid points but no matter what forums the threads are in, they will have the same URL.

    I did consider this when merging & I need to tweak some of the forum titles a little still.


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