Hi please review my forum. its been around sense november 2009 http://www.answerspots.com/index.php around 6k members and 13k topics. get around 130 new members a day and growing about 5 to 10 new. was around 90 for the holiday now going back up slowly. Been doing SEO for 3 months now trying keywords now with 400k or less competion. Had a calm theme but they didnt join now this darker theme they are joining more dont ask me why lol Also, whens a good time to start chargin? i was thinkin once i get 500 or more signups a day. then charge 5bucks for a liftime membership and a extra signature link feature. any thoughts would be valued good or bad.
Hmm, I see a ton worth fixing and working on. What's with the 2 sitemap and news link for every sub-forum, together with the rss link it clutters your homepage/main forum index. Your Meta Titles should be keyword optimized, definitely for the homepage (do you primarily want to rank for answerspots.com???) and also for sub-forums. Meta description for the homepage is also very short and without any targeted keywords. Your logo in the masthead is hard to read. And you seem to be getting a lot of spam posts, few or no replies within topics so I'm not sure how you can charge for access.
The forum has a terrible color layout and poor color combination. Orange letters on black background is a really poor choice. Overall, black is not a good color for a business website. It looks like a Halloween theme more then anything else. Even the default vbulletin theme would be better then what you have right now. The whole layout is very confusing,,, why do you have - News - Site map - RSS Feed - under every section? Are you wanting your members to use the sitemap for something????? You do not need to have a link to your sitemap, put its location in your robots.txt file. If you must have a link to the sitemap, put it in the footer of the site. That way people are less likely to see it.