I audited the forum (Nairaland.com) with Ahrefs and pretty nairaland got the hit too from the recent core update as seen in the data report below;



Points you should note;

1. Over 123k organic traffic lose in the last few days
2. Over 98k organic search terms lost as well.
3. Organic traffic currently in a downward slope.

How's is the current Google core update affecting your website?

What should we do?

Seun:
What should we do?

Nothing. Just hope for the best.

Seun:
What should we do?

I think u should look into that ...

Seun:
What should we do?

Upgrade NL GUI.
2004 template is off point.


This forum should be like Quora, if not better

Seun how many months does an ads take to get approved?

Seun:
What should we do?

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Why is the image not loading?

Seun:
What should we do?

please can I intern at nairaland??

Seun:
What should we do?

Things are getting back to their state.
Here is the November audit as the website gained thousands of natural editorial backlinks;



More Insight ;


One other major problem is people turning Nairaland into a link farm.
There are thousands of newly/automated generated URLs on daily basis. You have the forum on Do-follow which passes juice to external URLs. External links having the Do-follow juice shouldn't be a problem but at least let them be worthy.

Here are a few of the spammy URLs that might worth looking at;

https://www.nairaland.com/postcash/posts
https://www.nairaland.com/4779980/easiest-way-make-confession
https://www.nairaland.com/4556101/startimes-launches-new-app-fifa
https://www.nairaland.com/4515530/saraki-vs-igp-no-appointment#67747457
https://www.nairaland.com/1225734/transcript-d-commandant-oga-d#14761511

I could curate thousands of these spammy URLs. These are pure spam and feel you should have a quality control team over it

iamyemiakins:
Why is the image not loading?

I have it fixed now, Please confirm you can see the updated images.

Dayoebe:

Upgrade NL GUI.
2004 template is off point.
This forum should be like Quora, if not better

Nairaland is not a QA intent project so it doesn't have to be like quora, But have seen a lot of Xenforo forums: https://xenforo.com/ performing really great with modern functionalities.

Highly customizable by these folks: https://pixelexit.com/
These just need to go into BETA testing phase before launch - Also making sure all URLs structure as well in place.

meobizy:
Wait, that one can get off his high horse? Lol. There is a first time for everything.

What do you mean ?

Ajibade123:

please can I intern at nairaland??

You want to "intern at nairaland" while you continue to abuse and break forum rules with your continuous spamming of adverts on various threads.

If you continue to spam threads you will be reported to the Mods and your account will be banned permanently within the next 24 hours. Please receive sense and act guided.

NLRulesEnforcer:


You want to "intern at nairaland" while you continue to abuse and break forum rules with your continuous spamming of adverts on various threads.

If you continue to spam threads you will be reported to the Mods and your account will be banned permanently within the next 24 hours. Please receive sense and act guided.

who is this
how did I spam??

Ajibade123:

who is this
how did I spam??

You continue to abuse and break forum rules. Particularly Forum Rules 12 and 18

Rule 12: Don't insert signatures into your posts. Instead, add the desired signature to your profile.

Rule 18: Don't spam the forum by advertising in the wrong places or posting the same content many times.

Go through your own previous posts on multiple threads, in the Politics, Auto, Family, Crime, Religion, Celebrities sections and several others; wherein you continually add into your posts ads asking for people that want to work/study in other countries.

If you cannot act guided and read in-between the lines of Rules 12 and 18 and stop advertising your 'business' in ways that abuse and break forum rules you will be reported to the Mods and your account banned within 24 hours.

NLRulesEnforcer:


You continue to abuse and break forum rules. Particularly Forum Rules 12 and 18

Rule 12: Don't insert signatures into your posts. Instead, add the desired signature to your profile.

Rule 18: Don't spam the forum by advertising in the wrong places or posting the same content many times.

Go through your own previous posts on multiple threads, in the Politics, Auto, Family, Crime, Religion, Celebrities sections and several others; wherein you continually add into your posts ads asking for people that want to work/study in other countries.

If you cannot act guided and read in-between the lines of Rules 12 and 18 and stop advertising your 'business' in ways that abuse and break forum rules you will be reported to the Mods and your account banned within 24 hours.

If I may ask why are you doing this or are you also a mod or are you employed here??

Ajibade123:

If I may ask why are you doing this or are you also a mod or are you employed here??

You should probably be less worried about who is behind an account and more worried about the key fact that you continue to abuse and
break, with impunity, the rules of this forum by your actions. Your continued behavior down this path will result in your being reported and permanently banned from this forum within 24 hours.

NB: You are not the only rule-breaker on this forum that needs to be cautioned. Hence, I will take my leave here to address those individuals' issues as well. However, you have been clearly warned - continue to abuse and break the forum rules and you will be reported and permanently banned.