They definitely suppress web forums. There are a few I frequent that are prevalent on bing but nowhere to be seen on Google.
Maybe it's just a difference in phrasing. Promoting clean SEO companies is suppressing web forums.
Maybe it's just a difference in phrasing. Promoting clean SEO companies is suppressing web forums.
The only way around this is for google to start making a white list of known good forums, but people get (understandably) really pissed when a company of google's size starts actively choosing winners and losers instead of just tuning their algorithm.
the problem is that google WANTs to promote forums because forums are reliable sources of truth, but with automation all they can do is look for subject authority markers (incoming link count, keywords, text references on other highly authoritative pages, etc)
SEO as an industry is about optimizing those markers to appear above "organic" results in a search page.
changing the markers only means the SEO industry will adjust to target the new priorities, but forum operators are always the last to optimize. it's a fundamentally unwinnable game