SEO for a UGC Question and Answers Platform
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We are trying out SEO for a UGC Q& A Platform and has been able to generate 15000+ questions in last 4 months. The overall traffic is 50K while SEO traffic is only 4 K even after putting in all basic SEO elements in place and ensuring that we have a google page speed of 73/100. What are some of the items that can be done to push up the traffic through SEO ? Any thoughts .
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I don't believe they currently do this. So reorganizing, rewording + adding additional info/links would make the resource pages even better. Just be sure to give credit where it's due.
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That is already done. However do you know whether the Q&A platforms change and modify the questions posted by users to make it more useful for other users to help in SEO for each topic?
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Create question "category" pages that groups up multiple answers into larger, more encompassing pages.
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