Critique, Please: egelforum.net/forum

[kabronero]

Hi!

I'm from Argentina and my english is bad

Tell me if you dont understand me

My site (egelforum.net) is running since 2003.

Vbseo is installed since january 2009 and my traffic is slowly going down.

Can you critique it?

Thanks!


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[getting down under]

Great! how did you get the additional column to the right, is that an additional plugin?

[marco1]

Hello Carlos

Security :

• Your Site is related By Norton internet Security With UNSAFE Maybe you have spyware files in your site Check Picture in Attach

Design :

• Glad To See that you are using vBSEO Style 2
• Good Style Customize

SEO :

• You Done Some Good SEO Tips
• 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
• Big Mistake : The Keywords is missing you should add them
• 301 Redirect : Search engines may think Egel Forum - Powered by vBulletin and egelforum.net are two different sites.You should set up a permanent redirect (technically called a "301 redirect")
• 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 ?

[kabronero]

Hello Carlos

Security :

• Your Site is related By Norton internet Security With UNSAFE Maybe you have spyware files in your site Check Picture in Attach

What?!?
Omg, how can I fix that? Or how can I find what is causing it?

Design :

• Glad To See that you are using vBSEO Style 2
• Good Style Customize

Thanks!

SEO :

• 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
• Big Mistake : The Keywords is missing you should add them
• 301 Redirect : Search engines may think Egel Forum - Powered by vBulletin and egelforum.net are two different sites.You should set up a permanent redirect (technically called a "301 redirect")
• 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 ?

[*] Ok! I will do it![*]What do you mean with "keywords is missing"? I have metakeywords[*]I choose the www versión on google's webmasters tools[*]That is what I'm doing with sitemap (but I don't remember, I have to check )[*] Yep!


Thanks for de advices!

I hope you can explain me that "keywords missing" thing and I will look for a solution on the security problem :/


Regards

[marco1]

You should re-direct the website first check out this thread : [How to] Setup www.yourdomain.com or yourdomain.com (www vs. non-www) - With .htaccess 301 redirects

What do you mean with "keywords is missing"? I have metakeywords[*]

Hmm, Please Check it again it's empty

<meta name="keywords" content="" />

[kabronero]

Oh,I see, but only Forumhome doesn't have keywords. I have it for showthreads and forumdisplay.

Thanks again.

Do you think that it's possible to optimize something else?

Traffic dropped down by 35% +/- since Vbseo was installed and it seems to drop down more and more.

In the last 4 months I changed the main style 3 times... can this be the cause of the low traffic?


Btw, I will set that 301 redirect to de www version

[marco1]

You Can Safely Change your style as you want
Maybe Google will stop index your site Or some visitors will not open your site because Norton has marked it as unsafe so so many people after see this message from Norton will close the site

But I Sure after our new changes and FIX THE SECURITY PROBLEM you will found the traffic increase

[kabronero]

Yes, I verified ownership of my site on Norton Safe Web and claim for a re-evaluation after delete that suspicious content (it was an animated gif avatar, lol).

I hope they do quickly.



Thanks again!

[marco1]

hah,Great to hear that
You are welcome

[kabronero]

Norton Safe Web, from Symantec - report for egelforum.net

Woohoo!

[marco1]

Good Work

[AdamFL]

Great! how did you get the additional column to the right, is that an additional plugin?

I think that should be a separate thread but well I'm interested too in knowing how to add the additional column, it will be perfect to add sponsors and ads. I will appreciate if someone suggest something
Thank you

[kabronero]

Hi

I use this mod: Sidebar Column - vBulletin.org Forum

it works great!

[AdamFL]

Perfect! Thanks a million

I also noticed you still have the Powered by vbulletin on your homepage title, you want consider removing it:
[HOW-TO] Remove "Powered by vBulletin" from Your Page Titles