How does Google know the difference between a forum and a blog? Both types of sites consist of multiple pages and many receive equal traffic. And, sometimes they run on the same software, such as Wordpress blogs/Wordpress forum (plug in). Blogs are updated only once a day or week and still considered highly relevant by Google in search results. But if you only get one or two forum posts a day on your forum, you would likely be nowhere in Google search results against competing forums. I don't understand Google's logic on this situation as just one good forum post (if lengthy and detailed) could provide excellent new content to a site, similar to what you would find on a blog. Why not let forums compete against blogs on the same criteria? Why does Google make this distinction between the two types of sites, insisting that a forum which only gets a few posts a day is inactive where as a blog that gets the same number of posts is relevant?
Why do forums have to be updated so often for good SEO?
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As of my knowledge, apart from regular content updates blogs and forums have different script languages that can be well identified by Google. Forums have more lengthy contents with more regular discussions compared to blogs with regular updates. Forums also have categories relating to various subjects of discussions and also comments more often than a blog post. Blogs provide a more systemic way of content distribution compared to forum posts. Maybe these are the things that make blogs more superior than Forums.
I heard somewhere that Google loves to collect Main Stream & fresh news, so forums are the good platform to collect them. The more you update content, the great chances will come towards you. As well as it give bunch of traffic.
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