I have a forum with a lot of pages that are not indexed in Google. Are there consultants that specialize on getting more content pages in the index to get more long-tail traffic?

Most of the SEO advice I see is about creating content, articles, etc. And link building advice is mostly about ranking for a few "money keywords".

But in my case, I have a discussion forum with 989k pages in the sitemap files. But GWT shows only 218k of them indexed. The rest are "discovered currently not indexed" or "crawled currently not indexed". With most of them are not crawled, but only discovered.

This is not a new forum, so this isn't about waiting a bit more to give Google time to index those discovered pages.

Legacy crawler stats show around 32k pages being fetched per day. But pages aren't getting added. Or new pages are getting added but old ones get dropped from the index.

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I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to get more pages indexed and then maybe improve overall ranks. Not for a few main keywords but for all those long-tail keywords in all those discussion threads on all those pages.

Do SEO people even specialize on something like that? Or is it mostly about creating content, adding some H1 tags and hoping for the best?

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