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You're asking for trouble with that CNN feed.

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you have ads on your site, and thus pretty much violate their terms in their entirety. Kill it or get a good lawyer.


Look and feel:
everything is all mushed together. No padding anywhere. I find it hard to use, and especially on the navigation menu where I have to place my mouse ever so perfect as to not click an ad. Sure, it may help your CTR, but it also pisses off your membership. I wouldn't stay an active member there. it looks like you're in it for the money, not the discussion. While I understand it's about the money in the long run, the community is much more important for the short term.

While I understand it's about the money in the long run, the community is much more important for the short term.

Interesting how his decision not to pad cells was linked to his monetary expectations :d

Ok no seriously.. I felt the same about the padding, I'd fix that.

You also have a www-non-www issue which you need to correct (search these forums for www-non-www).

Originally Posted by briansol

I find it hard to use, and especially on the navigation menu where I have to place my mouse ever so perfect as to not click an ad.

Hey! It really does work... I was trying to navigate to the homepage from a thread and got to this page lol (you saw it first at vBSEO.com )

Originally Posted by Juan Muriente

You also have a www-non-www issue which you need to correct (search these forums for www-non-www).

Plug : non-www to www for forum?

Originally Posted by briansol

You're asking for trouble with that CNN feed.



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you have ads on your site, and thus pretty much violate their terms in their entirety. Kill it or get a good lawyer.

I completely forgot about that. I will remove that asap when I get home from work.

Originally Posted by briansol

Look and feel:
everything is all mushed together. No padding anywhere. I find it hard to use, and especially on the navigation menu where I have to place my mouse ever so perfect as to not click an ad. Sure, it may help your CTR, but it also pisses off your membership.

I've noticed quite a bit of forums that have a good amount of padding. I just thought making it more condensed might make it less of a hasle to navigate (not having to scroll down more..) I don't know, it was just a look that I felt went well with the site. Any other opinions?? I can quickly increase the padding if you all feel that it would make it looks better. As for the Google Adsense Ad, I just recently added those to give me a little extra cash to help pay for the hosting/vB/vBSeo,software, etc. I am also a Junior in college and it's not cheap.

Originally Posted by briansol

I wouldn't stay an active member there. it looks like you're in it for the money, not the discussion. While I understand it's about the money in the long run, the community is much more important for the short term.

I can see why you would say that I would be in it for the money, but i'm not. Many of my goals have been accomplished with the many great members I have, and great discussions. My MAIN GOAL is a successful forum where people would come to for a good debate. Again the Google ads are only there to help pay for the additional features I throw into the site. Maybe it's the placement I need more work on...

Thank you for the comments. When I get home from work today (which is in another 5 hours) I will work on the AdSense and padding.

Originally Posted by Juan Muriente

Hey! It really does work... I was trying to navigate to the homepage from a thread and got to this page lol (you saw it first at vBSEO.com )

This is a bad thing right??

Jeje, it was a joke - Keep us updated on the changes

Thanks for all the suggestions so far! Feel free to bust my balls even more! It gets the job done right!

Originally Posted by briansol

You're asking for trouble with that CNN feed.



CNN.com - RSS (Really Simple Syndication)

you have ads on your site, and thus pretty much violate their terms in their entirety. Kill it or get a good lawyer.


Look and feel:
everything is all mushed together. No padding anywhere. I find it hard to use, and especially on the navigation menu where I have to place my mouse ever so perfect as to not click an ad. Sure, it may help your CTR, but it also pisses off your membership. I wouldn't stay an active member there. it looks like you're in it for the money, not the discussion. While I understand it's about the money in the long run, the community is much more important for the short term.

I've been using the MSN feed lately and it doesn't say anything about not being allowed to display advertisements. However, the CNN feed was much better than the MSN feed. Since i have the Google code on every forumdisplay and threadisplay page, is there any way I can disable the Ad from displaying in a specific forum?? Probably not...but worth a shot to ask.