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Sheriff
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You'll know from the changelog today that I was working on the SEO for the forum.
Whilst working on this, there was one built-in option that caught my eye that I didn't enable: the "show signatures to guests" box.
However, did you know that disabling this is recommended on the Xenforo SEO page?
The reasoning behind disabling this is as follows: "In order to maximise your 'signal to noise' ratio when displaying threads to guests, you may hide your members' signatures."
I find that whenever I'm doing SEO for any site, I run into potential improvements that I can't add in for similar reasons: it takes away from the experience of using the site.
Don't get me wrong, I believe in optimising things as much as I can. However, SEO isn't everything, and in the case of our forum, we have this feature enabled here so that members can increase the exposure of their signatures.
I just thought I'd share this with everyone as I was wondering if anyone else has any exmaples of SEO improvements that you stay away from because they would negatively affect the user experience of a site
Whilst working on this, there was one built-in option that caught my eye that I didn't enable: the "show signatures to guests" box.
However, did you know that disabling this is recommended on the Xenforo SEO page?
The reasoning behind disabling this is as follows: "In order to maximise your 'signal to noise' ratio when displaying threads to guests, you may hide your members' signatures."
I find that whenever I'm doing SEO for any site, I run into potential improvements that I can't add in for similar reasons: it takes away from the experience of using the site.
Don't get me wrong, I believe in optimising things as much as I can. However, SEO isn't everything, and in the case of our forum, we have this feature enabled here so that members can increase the exposure of their signatures.
I just thought I'd share this with everyone as I was wondering if anyone else has any exmaples of SEO improvements that you stay away from because they would negatively affect the user experience of a site