Review My Forum

[ambkk]

Hello everybody!

Kindly review my forum and give me suggestions about it. SmartGup
Thanks,

awais

 

[HappyDay]

Whats the url of your forum ?

 

[ambkk]

Whats the url of your forum ?

Oh Sorry Its SmartGup

 

[HappyDay]

You need to optimize it. e.g. add your own keywords in the meta. Also I believe there is a problem for the Google bot to index it because of session ids.Try to make search engine friendly links.
Sorry I don´t have much experience with SMF. Why not phpBB ?


Wish you good luck with your forum ! Will take a lot of time to make it known.

 

[DubDubDubDot]

The #1 mistake new forum owners make is having 10,000 different sections with 2 posts in each one. Nobody wants to click around that much. So start out small and add sections after the board is somewhat populated.

 

[ambkk]

The #1 mistake new forum owners make is having 10,000 different sections with 2 posts in each one. Nobody wants to click around that much. So start out small and add sections after the board is somewhat populated.

First of all thanks for the reply.
Yea You are right DubDubDubDot. I have just launched it 3 days ago and i am working on that. I am a littly busy person i am doing it as a part time biz. I will start posting and i will fill it as soon as possible. Please advise me that is it worthy to higher some Posters or Threaders? Is it a good idea?

If you know more about forums. I may need your assistance. Because i want to make some changes in it. But can't help it alone.

You need to optimize it. e.g. add your own keywords in the meta. Also I believe there is a problem for the Google bot to index it because of session ids.Try to make search engine friendly links.
Sorry I don´t have much experience with SMF. Why not phpBB ?


Wish you good luck with your forum ! Will take a lot of time to make it known.

thanks for the reply.

yes i will do it. I have just launched it few days ago. i was just interested to get some views about the theme and its topics etc.

Regards,

Awais

 

[HappyDay]

Well, there are thousands of forums available. If yours is unknown, and it is because its not indexed already, it will take months or years to make it popular and without good SEO, without partner links its quite difficult that your forum will rank well. You have to go a long way. Maybe ask first your friends to post new entries. This will cost you nothing.
For example it took me 8 months of optimizing before I reached this stadium. I have currently 18.000 + registered members and got in the past 30 new members daily.

 

[ambkk]

Well, there are thousands of forums available. If yours is unknown, and it is because its not indexed already, it will take months or years to make it popular and without good SEO, without partner links its quite difficult that your forum will rank well. You have to go a long way. Maybe ask first your friends to post new entries. This will cost you nothing.
For example it took me 8 months of optimizing before I reached this stadium. I have currently 18.000 + registered members and got in the past 30 new members daily.

Its great than ........ you will be very helpfull for me. Can i please ask about your forum URL and Help when needed. Could you please help me SEO it?

Regards,

awais

 

[HappyDay]

PM sent but I ´cant help you with SMF.

 

[regan]

Forum looks good, you need good logo and banner now!


Cheers!

 

[AussieDomainer]

I agree that you need a good header with a professional logo. I would also consolidate some of the forum areas into one until you get a large amount of threads and posts. Nice & short domain that's easy to remember. Jazz the site up a bit, SEO it and then get building backlinks!

 

[ambkk]

I agree that you need a good header with a professional logo. I would also consolidate some of the forum areas into one until you get a large amount of threads and posts. Nice & short domain that's easy to remember. Jazz the site up a bit, SEO it and then get building backlinks!

Hello AussieDomainer,

Thanks for the advice. Actually i really dont know how to SEO it. And i am Designing a banner and Logo as well. IT will be Uploaded soon.

Regards,

Awais

Forum looks good, you need good logo and banner now!


Cheers!

Thanks Regan,

I will do it ASAP.

 

[jdenwar]

Hello everybody!

Kindly review my forum and give me suggestions about it. SmartGup
Thanks,

awais

Review???

Its a simple machine forum..i guess..

You haven't even changed the templates..header, logo or banner...

 

[ambkk]

Review???

Its a simple machine forum..i guess..

You haven't even changed the templates..header, logo or banner...

Yes thats right James.

I am working on that as i am a newbie and i dont know much about these things. I have places an order to develop my Logos to a designer and then i will move ahead with it. Bu i really want to do some thing else and i dont know i to do it.

I want to build a forum like this. http://www.bitbytefun.com/home.php

or
http://www.handmadechicago.com/forum/

please advice me.

regards,

awais

 

[HappyDay]

http://custom.simplemachines.org/themes/

For phpBB you would find much more available free themes.
Because you are a newbie I would suggest don´t spend too much money into a new forum. The design alone isn´t a guarantee or an universal fix that your website will be someday popular and succesful. It isn´t hard to make a nice logo and to learn how to change a theme but its time-consuming.

 

[dWhite]

Should probably check out a new theme instead of the default one, so you get some form of uniqueness;

http://custom.simplemachines.org/themes/

Also I notice you're using SMF 1.1.8, so if you plan to get forum SEO optimized download and install the seo4smf mod;

http://www.webmasterstalks.com/tpmod.html;dl=item49