first critique pls ...

right now i'm working around my new board ... so i need some tips and critiques ...

here's my latest live board ... FNIV - Federazione Italiana Videogiocatori

tell me!

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Hello,

you have done great tips , but here is some more

- Try to add more more specific keywords
- Try to rewrite the forum index from /forum.php to /forum/
- Try to remove Calendar and FAQ only for guests
- Try to remove include every thing in your sitemap (Albums,Members Profiles Pages,Showposts .....etc) and only include thread pages , forum display and Blog pages only from vBSEO Sitemap Generator Settings
- [Invalid] Markup Validation of http://www.fniv.it/board/forum.php - W3C Markup Validator
- try to add this website to directories like DMOZ and YAHOO


Marco anymore advice ?

Good luck
Ali.Ch.

Yes, It's just the snap preview, I have tried it before but it's increase the page load time.
Also try to keep your site online as much as possible, SE Don't like to see your site down in any time.

Try to add more more specific keywords
what you mean mate?

Try to rewrite the forum index from /forum.php to /forum/:
done Change forum.php to forum

Try to remove Calendar and FAQ only for guests
how? i haven't found anything about that ...

Try to remove include every thing in your sitemap (Albums,Members Profiles Pages,Showposts .....etc) and only include thread pages , forum display and Blog pages only from vBSEO Sitemap Generator Settings
i think that i've done this point ... (vBSEO Sitemap Generator : Quality vs Quantity) or not?

try to add this website to directories like DMOZ and YAHOO
i've searched around but i haven't found anything about 'how to do' this ... :(

and latest for the validation, i think that i must contact the authors of the products that i've installed and i need to ask them a fix, correct?

Originally Posted by Marco Mamdouh

Yes, It's just the snap preview, I have tried it before but it's increase the page load time.
Also try to keep your site online as much as possible, SE Don't like to see your site down in any time.

so you advise me that it's better if i disable the snaps?

edit: also i've checked this thread: vBSEO Optimization Tips

i've disabled these features:

• Disable "Replace 'Previous/Next Thread' redirect links?" feature: i put NO
• [user_id] in Member Profile/Avatar URL formats OR Disable them: i put members/[user_id].html and [user_id].gif correct?
• Disable rewriting for attachments/tree icon images: i put NO
• Disable "Add Thread Titles" features: i put Do NOT add what about the anchor? i leaved it as yes ...
• Outgoing LinkBacks -> Update Services: what i do?
• Outgoing LinkBacks -> Enable Outgoing Pingbacks: i put NO
• Outgoing LinkBacks -> Enable Outgoing Trackbacks: i put NO
• Add Titles to External Links -> Add Page Titles to External Links Anchor Text?: i put NO

about these:

• [forum_id] in URL formats: my settings are [forum_title] i need to change? i haven't troubles with the queries right now ...

Don't change your URLs format, Change any thing in vbseocp except of the URL rewriting settings setup it and forget it

Originally Posted by KURTZ

Try to add more more specific keywords
what you mean mate?

Try to rewrite the forum index from /forum.php to /forum/:
done Change forum.php to forum

Try to remove Calendar and FAQ only for guests
how? i haven't found anything about that ...

Try to remove include every thing in your sitemap (Albums,Members Profiles Pages,Showposts .....etc) and only include thread pages , forum display and Blog pages only from vBSEO Sitemap Generator Settings
i think that i've done this point ... (vBSEO Sitemap Generator : Quality vs Quantity) or not?

try to add this website to directories like DMOZ and YAHOO
i've searched around but i haven't found anything about 'how to do' this ... :(

and latest for the validation, i think that i must contact the authors of the products that i've installed and i need to ask them a fix, correct?

Hi,

I mean that try to add more specific meta keywords based on your forum contents, for example these are 2 of your specified keywords : online,gaming that I think these are so general keywords, so I will chose this keyword : " online gaming forum " instead of those.

about the directories , here is the example of Free Yahoo directory : Yahoo! Directory Suggest a Site
there is lots of such websites around the internet.

You need to simply remove FAQ and Calendar from guests and disallow this from robots.txt
take a look at here : FAQ removal


Regards,
Ali.Ch.

Originally Posted by Marco Mamdouh

Don't change your URLs format, Change any thing in vbseocp except of the URL rewriting settings setup it and forget it

OK, so the other settings that i made yesterday are good? or i should revert all the changes?

Originally Posted by PersianForums

Hi,

I mean that try to add more specific meta keywords based on your forum contents, for example these are 2 of your specified keywords : online,gaming that I think these are so general keywords, so I will chose this keyword : " online gaming forum " instead of those.

about the directories , here is the example of Free Yahoo directory : Yahoo! Directory Suggest a Site
there is lots of such websites around the internet.

You need to simply remove FAQ and Calendar from guests and disallow this from robots.txt
take a look at here : FAQ removal


Regards,
Ali.Ch.

OK thanks, just removed the calendar and the faq links for the guests ... also just put my board onto the yahoo directories ...

for the meta tags i've checked here ... Meta Tag Analyzer

Originally Posted by KURTZ

OK, so the other settings that i made yesterday are good? or i should revert all the changes?

Leave the other changes, But don't make any changes in your forum rewrite URLs, Change anything you want except of the rewrite URLs.

Originally Posted by Marco Mamdouh

Leave the other changes, But don't make any changes in your forum rewrite URLs, Change anything you want except of the rewrite URLs.

OK, another question Marco, i read something about the NO HTML code ... i could use this? how and why ...?

NO HTML Code is used in vBSEO RR's and it's using only in titles "If you want to replace forumdisplay titles with vBSEO RR's like vbseo.com forumdisplay titles"

Originally Posted by Marco Mamdouh

NO HTML Code is used in vBSEO RR's and it's using only in titles "If you want to replace forumdisplay titles with vBSEO RR's like vbseo.com forumdisplay titles"

yet i haven't the same lay-out? i settled the H1 tags for the forumdisplay ...

You can still using the default title of vBulletin, You have vBSEO RR's in showthreads and forumdisplay BUT NOT IN FORUMDISPLAY TITLES

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