dn4um.com: vBSEO installed

My forum DN For United Mankind Forum will be opened tomorrow. As the last step I've installed vBSEO yesterday. Looks fine. Great job

Just a tip. I would consider getting rid of a few forums, as you have too many for a new site. If a guest comes to that, he/she is going to think it's a deserted board, so you want your forums as small as possible to start off with, then once you grow bigger -- add more forums!

Regards Jason

Can't agree with you, Jason. If someone is coming to your site and is interested, e.g. mainly in literature or in internet marketing, he is looking for the forum related to his hobbies or specialty. I see many forums that contains only two or three categories, e.g. Announcements, Fora and Arcade. Is it a forum, is it a discussion board, is it a site where someone can live 5-10 hours of his/her daily life? Surely not. Forums categories show guest and visitor about what he/she can talk, discuss. You must say this to your guest, and not wait until he'll suggest new category and you'll chaotically open new forums. It is very dangerous way for any site generally and for discussion boards particularly. Surely you can't find any great forum that has grown from single category "Fora" or "Chit Chat" or anything else

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Well, go and see how many people would agree with me.

Just go to theadminzone and see the interviews with people such as Kier (vB product manager) .... they all say the biggest mistake they see newbie admins doing is adding too many forums all at once.

Regards Jason

Maybe, opinion

I don´t think there is or there can be common rule how to build successful community and even there is such rule, the count of forums is not the main one Thanks for your opinion

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Hello Hayk ,

I will like to point two things.

1. Your pages load so slow for me. It took around 1 minute to load only forumhome
2. There are way too may adds on your site. For a brand new site with that many adds i personally never continue browsing around.

Good luck with the site

Hi I browse my site normally, there´s not such problem. About adds may be you´re right, problem of taste, I think. Adds integrated with forum´s design and content are normal thing, I think. There can be two opinions about it surely. Thanks for reply

Site infact loads very fast for me. But I agree with Mert, you have way too many ads.

If new users see this, then they may well think your only in it for the money and just leave your site.

Regards Jason

Originally Posted by Jason Amison

If new users see this, then they may well think your only in it for the money and just leave your site.

...if he/she hasn't looked at content and topics yet

No, not true.

If I was to visit a site as new as yours, I would leave right away -- and wouldn't read any content. It's not very user friendly having that many ads for a new site like yours, and do you even need ads yet?

Regards Jason

If you've looked at content and topics of site, you can decide whether you want to participate in discussions or leave the site. And if you don't think to be informed in site's content, you can't generate content in that site, so site doesn't need you as permanent visitor. It doesn't user-friendly, maybe, but there are many sites with more adds, often not fully integrated with design, that are very successful actually

Regards` Hayk

...and those sites that have more ads have been up for years.

Regards Jason

...either for months, or may be from the first day depending on a wide range of factors from content to administration's and members' work and activity, promotion etc.

I am not critizing you or your site, please keep that in mind. I am just trying to give my point of view. I don't see any problems in having ads, as the site has to be paid for somehow, that's what a lot of people seem to forget about. But, I would look into reducing the amount of ads you have.

Regards Jason

I understand that Thanks fro your opinion, colleague

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