[Zer0 (OP)]

Thanks All for your thoughtful responses & valuable insights.

🙏

[hamdani yusuf]

When i Search online for ' Science Forums ' i get results for redit, qora, scinet, sciphorums.
thenakedscientists.com does Not show up.

When I searched in Google, I don't get it in the first page either. I kept looking, and finally found it in 7th page.
But in Duckduckgo, TNS shows up as the third result.
In Bing, it ranks at sixth.

I think it has much to do with their algorithms. Any idea how to improve it?

[Eternal Student]

Hi.

   What search terms were you using?
    Bing with search terms   "Science" + "forums"  listed  TNS second.   There is already a well known forum called "Scienceforums" and with that name you won't dislodge that from 1st place with those search terms.
   Those search terms on Google get TNS in about 8th place,  just barely on the first page.

   Before you can really know how easily a site can be found, you need to know what sort of search terms people might try to use.  For all I know people will try to find it with search terms like  "where can I talk about science?"  , "best chemistry forum"   or  "Free science chat".

Any idea how to improve it?

    Yes, there's a whole industry based on SEO  (Search Engine Optimisation).   However, the better search engines try to keep up with this and they will alter the way their engines prioritise results every now and again.   They may also penalize blatant attempts to achieve higher ranked results, so a crude attempt to improve the ranking of TNS could actually make things worse for them.
    If you (an individual) were going to try and improve the search engine ranking for TNS then the best advice is to go about it genuinely rather than trying to use tricks.   For example, tell your friends about the site and genuinely boost the traffic coming here.   Put links to TNS on your social media that you engage with BUT only where it's relevant.   If some discussion has nothing what-so-ever to do with TNS or a forum thread that was hosted here, then don't drop a link in,  that is artificial and the engines will soon penalize that.   Remember that people who click away from a site too fast (perhaps because they followed your link and realised it was rubbish) may raise a flag for the search engines that indicate how dis-satisfied with the link they were. 
    Let's be an idealist for one moment:  Perhaps the most genuine boost for TNS occurs when you do something to help a new user.  If they do come back to the site again - that's great and they might also tell their friends about the site.   I'm no expert and I don't know what to suggest but hopefully this sort of thing does no harm.

Best Wishes. 

[hamdani yusuf]

What search terms were you using?

The same as Zer0 did, "science forums".
Perhaps the results are also affected by our location when searching, which can explain the differences.

[Zer0 (OP)]

The following post shared on another thread was very helpful...

Hi.

   There has recently been a statement made by Chris here:
https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=70438.msg705025#msg705025
    Where a server migration is discussed.

Best Wishes.

& Did You Know...
On the Official thenakedscientists.com website page, there is a link to DONATE!

(seems like there is an option for a One Time Transfer of as less as 1 (gbp))