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If you read my discussion about how Google started ranking Stack Overflow above all other tech forums on the web, you'll learn about our severe ranking decrease over the past year. From browsing around other webmaster forums, it seems as if all tech discussion forums have taken a severe hit in favor of Q&A sites. I can't seem to find any out there, but I was just wondering if there are still any high ranking tech forums out there in Internet land? Either any that weren't as severely hit or any that bounced back or even made a partial recovery?

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As notes, many broad tech forums lost organic visibility as search results began favoring concise, expert Q&A formats. Replies here (including suggestions from and , and the “start your own” idea from ) point at options, but practical on-site changes often produce better returns than trying to out-rank large Q&A networks.

A practical approach is to make existing forum pages behave more like the pages searchers and crawlers prefer: concise, authoritative answers up front, clear structure, good metadata, and fewer low-value duplicates. Consolidating scattered answers into a single canonical thread, improving the first post so it contains a short, standalone solution, and exposing that solution in HTML (not buried in images or posts) helps both users and search engines.

Quick, implementable steps:

  • Run a search-audit (Search Console + analytics) to find pages with impressions but low CTR or poor dwell time.
  • Edit high-impression threads so the first post includes a concise accepted answer or TL;DR summary.
  • Merge or close duplicate/near-duplicate threads and point them to a canonical discussion; remove thin pages or use rel=canonical/301s.
  • Build tag/topic hub pages that aggregate best answers and link to deep threads — treat them as pillar content.
  • Add structured data for clear Q&A/FAQ content (FAQPage/QAPage) where a single question and answer exist.
  • Encourage acceptances, upvotes, and expert participation so the “best” answer is obvious to readers and crawlers.

Starting a new forum is valid but resource-intensive; the faster path for many sites is auditing, consolidating, and formatting existing content for answer-first visibility, then measuring progress in Search Console and iterating over months rather than days.

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Member Avatar for Kelly Burby

I think you should try checking androidpit out I think it ranks quite well over the search engine.

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They actually don't rank too highly, and Alexa is showing a huge decrease for them as well anyways.

Member Avatar for johnmicheal

You should try quicksprout forum. The PR of this forum is 5. If you are interested take a visit. I started this forum 2 weeks ago and found this informative.

Member Avatar for Kelly Burby

I guess their alexa has improved ! But yes like you said they are also lossing their visiblity over the organic search results.

Member Avatar for Scotthiggins

I think instead of searching for a technical forum it is better to stat a technical forum on own so, here I have shared a link which is having the details about the how to start a technical forum in detail plese make use of it.The link is:
1. http://www.wikihow.com/Start-a-Technical-Forum

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Member Avatar for Kelly Burby

seriously? tell me how its going to help OP ?? Please try to remain over the topic @Dain has asked for "Are still any high ranking tech forums out there in Internet land? Either any that weren't as severely hit or any that bounced back or even made a partial recovery?" and your giving her suggestion to create another ....

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