Our understanding is that there are lot of factors google considers when it ranks Domain & Pages, bottom line is content has to be valuable & there should not be lot of clutters. Manipulating/Spamming impacts the ranking negatively, it takes lot of time & patience to push the rank. I am not sure about the PHPBB or any other forum not being scanned by google, don't think that is true. Because google has a separate section "Discussions and forums" on the top 2nd or 3rd search results based on the user search words, so if your forum has all the words & intent then google brings up the page on the top.
Statistics: Posted by dextrous — Fri Mar 29, 2024 1:22 pm