Critique request please

**magz** · 06-21-2009 11:09 PM

Have had vbseo installed since 2006, and i believe have followed the tips given in the sticky of this thread, but my sites not doing so good.

Its a generic forum ( i know, its hard without a niche ), but viewing stats for last month, and previous months in analytics, its not looking good:

Search sent 681 total visits via 72 keywords

Advice greatly appreciated.

Chat An Play - Arcade Games, Topical Debates, Humour & Fun

**marco1** · 06-22-2009 05:43 AM

Your site is done ? or maybe from my connection i will restart my internet router

**marco1** · 06-22-2009 06:00 AM

Hello Tony
Yes it's from my connection your site is fine

Design

Good forum design
in your welcome visitor image i would you to make it "the all image" hyperlink with the register URL not only the "Click here" who will send to to register page

SEO

You done some good tips
I want you to disable footer archive links
I want you to killing your archive Check Out : [How To] Completely Turn Off the vBulletin Archive
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
Meta Description is too long -----> you should remove some words
High Number Of Meta Keywords -----> you should remove some words
if you looking for new visitors you should post some new threads if you didn't have much time you can hire some posters to active your forum,member and Google bots because your Last Google Crawl Date: June 16, 2009
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 ?

**magz** · 06-22-2009 06:48 AM

Thank you marco,

I have now disabled all footer archive links
Disabled vbulletin archive
Have adjusted Meta description and keywords ( though being a non niched forum, still unsure of my main keywords lol )
( working on Virtual Html )
Amended Vbseo sitemap generator to only include thread pages and forum display
Have installed Vbseo Sig
Am working on new content for threads

Since i adjusted vbseo sitemap generator in vb options, should i re run the generator?

Prior to making these changes, would these of been the reason I am experiencing such low Hits from the search engines?

regards

**marco1** · 06-22-2009 07:05 AM

Yes you should remove all .gz files in data folder and re-generate your sitemap manually

**magz** · 11-09-2009 07:17 AM

Sorry to engage in this thread again, but didnt really want to open a new one.

Would it be possible to again check my site please, I really dont seem to be getting much traffic from google. No additional changes have been made, though i do note that in webmasters tools, im seeing 2927 Duplicate Meta descriptions, and 3770 short meta discriptions..

**Brian Cummiskey** · 11-09-2009 09:38 AM

Move your Css to the file system: [How To] Move CSS to file system
Validate your template: [Invalid] Markup Validation of http://www.chatanplay.com/arcade/ - W3C Markup Validator

You're in a pretty tough niche to rank well. There's not many keywords besides 'arcade' or 'games' that people are going to search against. And in that niche, there's some big players, like yahoo games, etc.

**magz** · 11-11-2009 06:26 PM

Thanks brian,

Ive now moved CSS to file system.

Regarding markup validation, im currently in process of "streamlining" a lot of my mods in anticipation of VB4. Im guessing that a lot of the current errors that are displayed would be due to modification Template changes onmy current skin? If I reverted all templates, would that be a more simple approach?

**Brian Cummiskey** · 11-12-2009 12:04 AM

I wouldn't revert unless you have to. most are simple fixes html -> xhtml conversion (lower case, & instead of &, non-self-closed single tags like <br /> etc)

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