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What you said about 'Post for VPS' is good example of wrong SEO. The problem is nobody search for Post for VPS. So ranking for that keyword is totally useless. Same goes for even ranking for post4vps. To have any use the site needs to rank for keyword people use. Like Everyone look for Free VPS also there are plenty of other related keywords. What you get as Google suggestions are what people search for most.
I still remember long long time ago when i was learning about SEO I was thrilled to see my sites rank for keywords I liked. But for months I had no traffic from Google. That taught be the one of the very basics of SEO and Marketing. You cater what people ask or want not what you want.

Okay! i have to quote the relevant part here!

In the age of Machine Learning and AI, I think the mere content would cut it. The proof?

Check -for yourself- what 'post for vps' as a query will bring about (instead of 'free VPS'):
> https://duckduckgo.com/?q=post+for+vps&ia=web
> https://www.google.com/search?q=post+for+vps

They both have this forum as the first hit. It's all about the use of the right keywords to hit the target.

It would seem that to those 2 search engines P4V is a Post4VPS service as its domain name screams.

This was posted in reply of this question:

.. is there still some benefit to be gained from structuring keywords, titles, and descriptions in the best way possible?

I was referring to the use of AI and machine Learning in analysing Website's content to approximate the relevance of websites towards Web queries. And I've chosen 'post for vps' as the query in this case because it puts the website as the first hit, the reason being that it's the website's own domain name.

In my normal web searches I would have most probably chosen the more generic: 'vps + post' or 'post + vps' as a search query when tracking post4VPS kind of services.

In this case:
> https://duckduckgo.com/?q=vps+%2B+post&ia=web
post4vps.com ranks fourth
> https://www.google.com/search?q=vps+%2B+post
post4vps.com ranks second or third (depending on your location)

... Which is not that bad!

Again, the most appropriate query for searching services live post4vps.com is 'vps + post' not 'free vps'.

I do agree about quality post theory in theory but in reality it's really hard to apply for a forum like this. For example a quality post, the whole definition is depend on the person. (..)

I don't agree with this premise at all. Quality content isn't something subjective that depends on the beholder's eyes. It's objective by its own nature and even if everybody in the forum fail to appreciate it, rest assured that Search engines won't miss it and sooner or later will accumulates a sizeable amount of views/traffic from outside the community (ie, if you're really interested in a topic and want to share it with the community just do it..)

Personally when I post I do it with the whole netizens in mind and I can go on in that subject for as long as the topic matters to me. From my experience in this forum, I generally don't expect much interaction from P4V members which is sad to say the least!..

I think there is a generational shift among the younger generation as to their expectations and the way they use Web forums. On this point, I'm 100% agreeing with you on the deceasing popularity of forums among that generation (I think it's called gen. Z) who grow up with the Internet as a home commodity.