📈 Similar Worlds #️⃣ pages Indexed, UP 3x since Group Consolidation 🚀
The number of webpages from Similar Worlds being indexed by Google (which will resultingly translate to other Search Engines), has increased by Threefold (x3) since our release of Group Consolidation, / Restructuring, which was done on July 23rd, 2021. (Initial improvement changes were started in the prior month of June.)
This will lead to future growth on SW, in the coming months and years ahead.
📈 More Pages Indexed = More Visitors = More Signups & Growth 🚀
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This is as we have strategized, which is that these recent changes will improve the overall "Site Quality", Relevance and Organization, over time.
The real benefits to users, will be more visible once we have implemented the planned significant improvements to our "Relevance Algorithms", which will provide more relevant:
While we understand that many users will not be happy with many of our decisions made in improving/adjusting the way how this site works and operates,
we (SW Staff) DO definitely always consider user feedback, very strongly, in every decision we make.
Please note that a "Majority Vote" on a public poll (for example) will not always be indicative of the path we have decided to take on a decision, (especially for years old feedback polls, where many factors would have since changed).
There will always be a lot of crucial data that is only available to SW Staff (just as with any other website/service), that also factors heavily in the final decisions we make.
We continue to look forward to incoming growth for SW, in the coming months. 👍
Many of our recent and in-development changes to this site, are being done, in part, to allow and facilitate such user growth, as well as to provide a higher quality experience to all of our users, in the long-term.
Thanks for your continued feedback, support and patience! 🙂
Kind regards, -SW Staff
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@SweetNSassy the external visibility of Similar Worlds (in Search Engines, like Google and others) has been steadily increasing, since the major changes done for Group Consolidation, and other improvements we have been doing in these past months.
This means that more new people will find this site, over the coming months, which would lead to more new users here, more activity, more new people to interact with.
@OogieBoogie For Search Engines, especially Google, their most important feature is returning the most Relevant and Highest Quality results to users, whenever they search for something.
Google is also the most advanced company in the world in AI (Artificial Intelligence), especially as it relates to interpreting the content, meaning and quality, of any page on the internet.
Prior to Group Consolidation, Similar Worlds was still a disorderly mess, and Google would have also seen it as such.
We were aware of this (Admins can see a lot more of the site's internal and external structure, how posts and topics connect to one-another, how much relevant content is contained within a specific page, group, etc..), and thus, we worked to improve these problems SW had.
As we have made changes over the past months to the site's structure and how content is organized, this has been noticed by Google, who through their combination of AI analysis (and possibly also some instances of manual reviewal), now see Similar Worlds as having "Higher Quality of Structure, Content and Organization", compared to how the site was seen before these major changes.
Thus, they have steadily been ranking more and more of SW's pages in their search results (your, the user's, posts), which leads to more of our site and user content being findable by others not yet joined to SW.
Which leads to greater potential for new signups, and so on.
