Please Review My Forum

Discussion in 'Websites' started by calum, Jan 1, 2008.

  1. #1
    Hello.

    Could you please review my computer and web development forum:

    www.computalk.net

    It runs vBulletin and has almost 5000 posts.

    Thanks
    Calum
     
    calum, Jan 1, 2008 IP
  2. WebmasterEvi

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    #2
    your domain is nice. Vbulletin theme is beautiful.good luck. congragulations.
     
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  3. calum

    calum Peon

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    #3
    Thanks for the review, I am very happy that you like it, do you have any recommendations?
     
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  4. flaco

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    #4
    Great domain, your theme is very light and airy. I would suggest moving your Announcements and such to the top, so members can take a look very easy.
     
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  5. Mess

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    I highly recommend SE friendly URL's, also sesion id's may be problem.
     
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  6. calum

    calum Peon

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    #6
    Thanks for the suggestion.

    In fact it used to be at the top, but someone suggested that I moved it to the bottom so that the main content was actually nearer to the top, and the regular members that looked at the announcements could scroll down.
     
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  7. calum

    calum Peon

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    #7
    SE urls for forums make very little different, I have thousands of indexed pages already so it would mess them all up by changing URLs but thanks for the suggestion.

    What session id problems? Everything seems fine for me.
     
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  8. JohnGBUK

    JohnGBUK Guest

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    #8
    How long have you been operating the site to get this level of posting?
     
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  9. Mess

    Mess Well-Known Member

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    #9
    i mean that,

    index.php ? s = 4e3ee90612e9f0c1483b362dcead2b8e
     
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  10. calum

    calum Peon

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    #10
    It opened around 4-5 months ago and I have been spending a lot of time advertising it.

    Whats wrong with the URL? it works for me.
     
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  11. Mess

    Mess Well-Known Member

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    #11

    please check my latest post again, i have update it.
     
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  12. calum

    calum Peon

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    #12
    What about it?

    There are no session problems that I or any other members have experienced, it is the latest version of vBulletin.

    What is wrong with that URL?
     
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  13. Mess

    Mess Well-Known Member

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    when i enter the forum first time, redirected me to index.php ? s = 4e3ee90612e9f0c1483b362dcead2b8e, search engine spiders hate session id.
     
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  14. calum

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    #14
    It doesn't do that for me.

    Anyway SE's don't mind much about that, I am nearly at the first page for web development forum in Google and search engines have no trouble crawling the forum.

    What you are trying to say is the most popular paid forum script is crap for SEO?
     
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  15. peter_anderson

    peter_anderson Notable Member

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    #15
    well done! great colours! if you ever need a mod, please pm me!
     
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  16. Mess

    Mess Well-Known Member

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    #16
    no comment :) read my posts again.
     
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  17. calum

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    #17
    Ok, I will keep that in mind. If you start posting then you may get recommended to be a mod by other members.

    They seem to like recommending me mods ;)

    They basically say it is badly optimized, yet this doesn't show through in my SERPs.
     
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  18. crazycatsville

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    #18
    You have a good domain. As for the looks, I rate it 6 over 10.
     
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  19. for_si2003

    for_si2003 Banned

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    #19
    Looks good. Why dont you add some side pages ...that will have some tutorial etc...You page is very busy...lokks good.
     
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  20. Moosa

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    #20
    this looks good!
     
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