Quote from: mk4 on January 22, 2020, 10:03:41 AM

<> the "other bitcoin forum" came out higher on the Google search results back in the day hence I joined that first, also thinking that it was the "official" bitcoin forum lmao. I then realized after a while that Bitcointalk was far more active <>

The sample results are very small in the poll so far, and cannot in any case be conclusive of facts, but seeing "search engine" being the first current poll runner, reminds me that SEM/SEO is important in the forums placement and traffic generation. That not only has an English reading, but also in every single language that has a local board (/thread) on the forum.

For example, if I search on google.es for "foro bitcoin" (bitcoin forum), the first direct link to Bitcointalk appears on position number 17 (second page of search results). If I simply search for the term "Bitcoin" on the same search engine domain, I did not find a direct link to Bitcointalk within the first 18 (default) pages of results. Ok the term does have a very broad set of information out there, and paid ads and such, but Im not convinced search results couldnt get any better