Patientenfragen.net - A long term vBSEO Case Study
 

Hi

I have a German forum for medical patients to talk about medical and non medical topics.

http://www.patientenfragen.net/image...eader_ganz.png

Link: Patientenfragen.net ... wir haben die Antworten (German Version)
Link: Patientenfragen.net ... we have the answers (English Version)

The forum runs since 2006/05/05


I bought and installed vBSEO on 2007/07/20 including vBSEO Sitemap Plugin

This Thread is a long term CASE STUDY.
Last update: 2010/02/06

(If you only see old images that don't match the update date please press CTRL + R to force your browser to reset cache!)

Important events that may have had impact on my traffic:

2007/07: Installation of vBSEO + vBSEO Sitemap plugin
2007/10: Google PR Update -> PR 3 to PR 5
2008/09: Removed vBulletin Archive and Footer Links to Archive, removed Forum Title from Showthread, Forumdisplay and Memberinfo replaced showpost with permlinks
2009/02: We had some Server Issues for 5 weeks with slow speeds and sometimes being not reachable. Google PR dropd from 4 to 3
2009/08: around that time Google PR dropped to 0 (possibly because of the Google Caffeine update or because we are selling direct Links on our Forum, who knows? ;))
2010/01: Installed vBEnterpriseTranslator which automatically translates the forum into English via Google Translator

Statistics:

Indexing stats (Indexed pages in search engines - Tracking DISCONTINUED!)
Old Graphs can be found as attachments

Traffic stats (organic traffic from search engines)

http://www.patientenfragen.net/image...end_normal.png
(Y-axis normal scale)

http://www.patientenfragen.net/image...ogarithmic.png
(Y-axis logarithmic scale)


Keyword Long Tail:

http://www.patientenfragen.net/image..._long_tail.png


Google Adsense earnings:
Here is a graphical representation of my adsense earning.
I changed the scale of the Y-achsis to an odd interval and removed the numbers so you can't guess the income, but I think you will get the idea ;)

This Graph represents earnings up to January 2009 in USD.
http://www.patientenfragen.net/image...nse_patfra.png

Since Adsense changed payment from USD to EUR I made a new Graph for earnings in EUR starting January 2009:

http://www.patientenfragen.net/image...se_adsense.png

I have worked hard on the optimal integration of Google Adsense into my forum and I think that I found the near optimum for use of Adsense on a vBulletin Forum.
If you need some ideas for your placements, feel free to check them out.

Interested now and you did not visit my forum yet?

Go for it:

Link: Patientenfragen.net ... wir haben die Antworten (German Version)
Link: Patientenfragen.net ... we have the answers (English Version)

StarBuG

I also posted this case study on digital point here:
vBSEO - an independent case study
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