Critique please bluegoldnation.com

Any help would be appreciated.

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The Site is down please check it again Or maybe in my connection i will back to you today again

The site wasn't down. I still need a critique.

Hello Matt
That's seems Problem in my DNS Connection

Design :

• Great you are using vBSEO Style 2
• Good Style Customize

SEO :

• i want you to replace your showposts with Permalink Check Out : [How To] Replace Showpost Links with Permalinks - Max Out Search Engine Crawling Efficiency
• i want you to use vBSEO Relevant Replacements Check Out : [How to] Setup Relevant Replacements with vBSEO
• i want you to remove your forum title from your thread page Check Out : [How To] Remove Forum Title from Thread Pages for Long Tail Optimization / Increased Thread Title Relevancy
• I want you to use Virtual HTML Display in your what's going on box Check Out My Blog :[How To] Add Virtual HTML Display In Your Forum Template
• 301 Redirect : Search engines may think Notre Dame Football - BlueGoldNation - The Best Notre Dame Football Website and bluegoldnation.com are two different sites.You should set up a permanent redirect (technically called a "301 redirect") Check Out : [How to] Setup www.yourdomain.com or yourdomain.com (www vs. non-www) - With .htaccess 301 redirects
• High Number Of Meta Kewords ----> you should remove some words
• I want you to remove include every thing in your sitemap (Albums,Members Profiles Pages,Showposts .....etc) and only include thread pages and forum display only From vBSEO Sitemap Generator
• Are you Installed vBSEO Sig ?

Thanks Marco. I made the changes per your suggestions. I hope to see an improvement. The hot search for me is "Notre Dame Football" I have been up to page 6 and now I am on page 10. I will probably drop a bit since I changed my preferred name in Google Webmaster Tools but hopefully I will push back up quickly.

I Didn't say to change your preferred name I say re-direct 301 your site with www or non-www check out this thread : [How to] Setup www.yourdomain.com or yourdomain.com (www vs. non-www) - With .htaccess 301 redirects

I just noticed there's a code error under the footer, the what's going on block and stuff, you might consider cleaning/repairing it. it doesn't look good.
Good luck.

Originally Posted by AdamFL

I just noticed there's a code error under the footer, the what's going on block and stuff, you might consider cleaning/repairing it. it doesn't look good.
Good luck.

To Fix this problem you should disable Virtual HTML Display because it doesn't work with the Java Script

Thanks for the heads up. I ran across that the other day. I had to restore the templates.

My site uses IIS and so I am out of luck with the .htaccess. I tried to set things up the best I could in IIS but vbseo flakes out if I try to use bluegoldnation.com instead of Notre Dame Football - BlueGoldNation - The Best Notre Dame Football Website so that is why I changed the default to www.

I set up permanent redirects in IIS to hopefully help the situation. Any other suggestions?

IIS 301 Redirect for SEO - McAnerin International Inc.