The most urgent issue I'm seeing right now, is related to the SEO aspect of our platforms.
The fact that Osclass Evo (website and forum - dead since 2021) for example, appears in front of ValueWeb and Osclass Enterprise, blows my mind.
If you do an incognito search for "osclass classifieds" literally a ton of crap will appear before we pop-up. And it's the same for all other related keywords also.
SEO is one subject I know very little about, so I should probably start learning...
When you rank on the bottom of the first page, or on the second one, it's basically bye bye traffic.
@enterpriseclassifieds Well, this is due to off-site SEO, meaning because of backlinks and such.
I'm afraid the old slogan "build it and they will come" is long-gone. If you have a lot of votes (backlinks) and other off-site signals, apparenty they count.
And yes, the dead EVO release is appearing at better places than we do. I will see if we can do something better about all that.
The ValueWeb Forum is the last open Osclass community, and you have the support of an entire platform release (Osclass Enterprise) behind you, which it seems that you're not taking advantage of.
I think that we should promote more Osclass stuff, start more conversations and call upon the old users to start sharing and contributing.
If you just propagate the idea that everything is dead, then you might as well close this forum, as it will serve no real purpose...
Well, it is the second time you mention that we push the idea that Osclass is dead. I have followed and contributed to a lot of projects the last 20 years. And i can read the signs well.
Not sure if Osclass is dead, but it is not what it was when Osclass org was alive. There is somewhere an online copy of their forums before been closed, go and check the traffic. You will get the idea. Compared to that, even Osclasspoint has extemely low traffic.
Maybe it is not Osclass issue but of the general classifieds market. But rest assure that our forums will never die as long as we are alive. .... well as long as @editor is alive and well :)
The most urgent issue I'm seeing right now, is related to the SEO aspect of our platforms.
The fact that Osclass Evo (website and forum - dead since 2021) for example, appears in front of ValueWeb and Osclass Enterprise, blows my mind.
If you do an incognito search for "osclass classifieds" literally a ton of crap will appear before we pop-up. And it's the same for all other related keywords also.
SEO is one subject I know very little about, so I should probably start learning...
When you rank on the bottom of the first page, or on the second one, it's basically bye bye traffic.
Well, things are not that bad. We are good for "Osclass Enterprise" as 3-4rd, "Osclass forums" also 2-3rd, and other keywords related to Osclass.
But not good when searching "Osclass" or "Osclass Classifieds". I will reseach a little bit that issue and see what i can suggest or do.
This forum and community has so much potential, not only for Osclass, but for WordPress also.
It just needs more involvement from all of us that are still here and solving of the SEO problem.
I can't understand either, how junk websites rank better just because they have Osclass in the domain name... Google can't be that stupid.
@tango As i said, it is a matter of Votes (=backlinks). Not to mention that we have zero presense in social media.
Our performance is also very good, except the Forums that are a bit slower in GT Metrix. So it is not a speed penalty or something like that.