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Yes, this just started after the change. The forums never outranked the editorial site in the past. We would rather have the editorial site rank better.

As for the content scraper, the site is down but still shows in Google results. I tried to submit pages manually for removal, which works, but they copied thousands of pages.

The editorial site: audioholics.com

the forum: http://forums.audioholics.com/forums/forum.php

I think tracking date is correct since Alexa also shows a drop and now the forums are beating the editorial site in SEO for the first time.  When we post a review we also post a related forum thread for that review.  The thread is outranking our editorial site in Google.

thanks.

Hi,

Our website is well established and has been growing every month until around Jan. 6th 2013. All of sudden our search rankings on Google dropped dramatically (nearly 50%). We getting tens of thousands fewer visitors through search results than normal.

At the same time as the drop (almost to the day) we changed our forum software from Vbulletin3 to Vbulletin4. The forums are on a different subdomain, and our forum developer said there is no way the change would affect the main site. Is that true?

So  far, we have not been able to figure out what caused the sudden change. Maybe a Google update?