Critique Request: theLoveLogic.com

Hello all,

I have had my site going about a year and a half now. I have followed these forums closely so that I can learn from those who have succeeded and I certain want to drive more traffic to my site.

Please feel free to give me your opinion. I am here with open ears and I certainly could use the advice.


theLoveLogic Inspirational Relationship Advice Forums <-- Website

theLoveLogic Inspirational Relationship Advice Forums and Blog <-- Forum



I am fairly new to webdesign as well as SEO so please feel free to help me out.


Thanks in advance,


-Dave

• I think your homepage is setup nicely particularly with the sub-forum links on the left.
• Your template is a little bit of an older style, but it has good constrast and is neatly organized which is great.
• I would like to see a full time site introduction at the top of your homepage before the news text, that is carefully written with niche keywords.
• You should rewrite your welcome message to be more custom for your forum with niche keywords on your forum homepage.
• I don't like that you have your latest social groups, tag cloud, and top 5 stats above your sub-forum links. I would move to the bottom, if not remove them.
• From the Top 5 stats I would remove newest members, latest blog entries, top thanked, top posters, latest posts and most popular forums. Basically that leaves you with "Most viewed threads".
• You can beef up your sub-forum descriptions to get more specific with more niche keywords.
• You should try our vBSEO 3.3.0 feature for Virtual HTML Display, applied to your "What's Going On?" section.
• You should definitely enable this for your notices, to ensure your welcome message on every page does not impact your SEO.
• I would like to see your sub-forum description on the sub-forum display page. Try setting it up using our Relevant Replacements to also get coverage with a H1 tag.
• In your Nav, you should use conditionals to remove some of the links from guests including FAQ, Calendar, Mark Forums Read, and Who's Online.
• You might also consider the vBSEO 1.0 or 2.0 style as an option for your template.