New Google ranking system affects Apricity traffic negatively

[Loki]

Google has sent out a recent email to registered webmasters, notifying them that websites which are mobile-friendly will get priority listing, and those who are not yet will be ranked lower in searches. This is the cause of the recent dropping numbers in organic traffic. Google frequently updates the way in which it ranks websites.

Fact of the matter is that Apricity is almost zero mobile-friendly currently, despite the fact that I see some users are utilizing Tapatalk which I have installed..

But there is a remedy to it -- namely the purchasing of the vBulletin Mobile Suite. It is quite pricey at $199, but I will attempt to acquire it towards the beginning of next month. When that is installed and implemented, it would make Apricity much more mobile-friendly for those with mobile devices such as iPhones, Android and iPads, and organic traffic from search engines will increase again.

So ... watch this space :thumb001:

[poiuytrewq0987]

It's definitely not mobile friendly. I get a zillion advertisement popups on my iPhone making it impossible to browse the site even thru the desktop version.

[Drawing-slim]

You have already lost countless thousands of clicks to this site, and I mean perhaps millions of clicks.
I have not used a laptop nor a desktop for years now.

It is the most unfriendly website in the universe towards iPhone mobile users. That means every time someone is searching on a subject of race and whatnot google takes you to apricity only to have our phone acting really crazy and for a new users this leaves an unforgettable ugly experience.
I am afraid you have ruined a huge massive boom aportunity to this site due to this fucked up billion army of popups. I say this because any outsider who randomly found this place searching by an iPhone even to this day he/she may very well be disturbed by the experience.

[Loki]

You have already lost countless thousands of clicks to this site, and I mean perhaps millions of clicks.
I have not used a laptop nor a desktop for years now.

It is the most unfriendly website in the universe towards iPhone mobile users. That means every time someone is searching on a subject of race and whatnot google takes you to apricity only to have our phone acting really crazy and for a new users this leaves an unforgettable ugly experience.
I am afraid you have ruined a huge massive boom aportunity to this site due to this fucked up billion army of popups. I say this because any outsider who randomly found this place searching by an iPhone even to this day he/she may very well be disturbed by the experience.

Well, I will try to fix things and smoothen the user experience over the next month or two ;)

[sql]

Great! I can't wait until this site because more friendly for mobile users.

I was recently trying to show a friend of mine one of the threads on here, but I couldn't really use the website at all because every time I tried to scroll down, a few ads would pop up.

Good luck to you with improving the forum's relevance on Google, Loki. :)