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I just visited a forum and noticed something interesting. See attached.

The user has vBAdvanced CMPS on their homepage.

Even though we use vBA here at vBSEO.com, I'm still not a big fan. Its rigid style just does not look great. Quite often it's hard to visually lock-in on anything due to an excess of ugly little modules like useless calendars and other link "boxes".

But this designer did something cool:

http://www.vbseo.com/blogs/joe-ward/...ing-forums.gif ...

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Looking to optimise your vBulletin? Reducing the number of HTTP requests in your page is the place to start. This is the most important guideline for improving performance for first time visitors.

Making your page fast for these first time visitors is key to a better user experience.

Minimise HTTP Requests

Reduce the amount of images

Combining images is the preferred method for reducing the number of image requests.

One such ...

On my Forum : http://www.geekpoint.net/ ;
I'm experiencing a constant and steady influx of members.

On an average, there at about 2-5 registrations per day !
And some of the traffic seems to coming from the places I least expected.

And now comes the most interesting thing :

The traffic from Google search results for the month of November has increased about 500% () as compared to that of October.

...

Here are the stats for the second week :

Google : 3,100
Yahoo : 1,240 <--- OMG ! what an increase.
Live : 1 <---

Thanx,
Shadab.

come on !

who wants to inaugure it ?