Sorry I'm not sure what you mean by "archive".Do you just leave all 200,000 pages in the same forum & sitemap.xml?. Or do you move these into archive?. Thanks.
Our forum's latest posts and files get indexed every hour or two.
How old is your forum? Reason I ask is when my forum was under a year old I had it on the default BOTS permissions and our site barely got shown in search results and I found it a huge struggle to get topics indexed. After adjusting the Google [BOT]'s permissions in the ACP to allow it to ignore flood limit and give it access to search the forum, see profiles etc. that's when I started seeing lots of our pages indexed.
By leaving those settings over the past 7 years we have almost 200,000 pages of our site indexed.
(The recent drop was due to me experimenting with blocking certain pages (like "Thanks For Posts" list) using robots.txt)
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I don't use sitemaps anymore. I use to generate sitemaps using Screaming Frog for creating sitemaps but only saw a small boost in SEO and impressions so I stopped using sitemaps altogether.
Statistics: Posted by Forex Station — Wed Apr 03, 2024 10:14 am