- Jan 17, 2015
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For some reason, I've never read about the "crawl budget" until last week. The thing is that I was suspecting of that thing because I have a big forum and some strange situations were happening related to SEO (i'm not optimising that much, but sometimes a take a look)
The thing is that now, that I'm conscious of this situation, I think that maintaining good content into the forum is a shit idea, and I'm thinking on restructuring the site in one of two ways:
1. Creating a home SILO'd style, with the best content and maybe 301 redirects from forum URLs to new main site URLs
2. Creating a new site with a new domain, migrating content threads to new pages and URLs and 301 redirects from forum's URL to new site URLs.
The problem I find in number 1, is that the site is entirely designed as a forum, exactly the same as BHW. And I prefer to keep it that way. I like that people find a forum when they join the home because that is the spirit of that site (and is also called "-topic-forum.com")
So this is why I'm thinking that number 2 is a better idea because I can keep them separately
Obviously, I believe that great content that currently has a good positioning for certain keywords is going to be severely damaged by migration to a new domain. So this is the only drawback that is holding me from doing this immediately.
Any suggestions to optimise the result of this task?
The thing is that now, that I'm conscious of this situation, I think that maintaining good content into the forum is a shit idea, and I'm thinking on restructuring the site in one of two ways:
1. Creating a home SILO'd style, with the best content and maybe 301 redirects from forum URLs to new main site URLs
2. Creating a new site with a new domain, migrating content threads to new pages and URLs and 301 redirects from forum's URL to new site URLs.
The problem I find in number 1, is that the site is entirely designed as a forum, exactly the same as BHW. And I prefer to keep it that way. I like that people find a forum when they join the home because that is the spirit of that site (and is also called "-topic-forum.com")
So this is why I'm thinking that number 2 is a better idea because I can keep them separately
Obviously, I believe that great content that currently has a good positioning for certain keywords is going to be severely damaged by migration to a new domain. So this is the only drawback that is holding me from doing this immediately.
Any suggestions to optimise the result of this task?