If you have time to look at my forum please...

[bam-mark]

My forum is: www.disabilitypage.com

We have lots of extras. i'm new to vBSEO and am a bit lost in configuring it, but I'm working through all of the suggestions and posts here. I'd love to hear what you think - how it can improve - any constructive criticism.

Thank you very much


Mark E. T. Owner of Disability Page Online

[Shadab]

Nice skin.
Some suggestions :

1. [How to] Setup www.yourdomain.com or yourdomain.com (www vs. non-www) - With .htaccess 301 redirects

2. [HOW-TO] Make your Welcome Headers an image!

3. Improve your site's title. Something like.... 'Disability Forum - DisabilityPage'.

<title>www.disabilitypage.com</title> 

4. [Invalid] Markup Validation of http://www.disabilitypage.com/ - W3C Markup Validator : 24 errors.

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX, NOFOLLOW"> 

should be :

<meta name="robots" content="index, nofollow" /> 

Btw, is that really needed ?

5. Move your CSS Rules to an external file.

[Joe Ward]

I like the way you have written the sub-forum titles. They are more designed to attract the user. In this case, make sure you have good coverage in your sub-forum descriptions of related keywords. Not only does that help get those terms on the page, it also "frames" the thinking of your users when they enter the forum looking for topics to discuss.

I would like to see you using the new vBSEO template once it is released, and adapted for use with your site.

I would prefer that you remove the sub-forum description from the top of the thread pages. Try something different. Replace it somewhere else on the page, like after the 1st post, or at the bottom.

[bam-mark]

Originally Posted by Joe Ward

I like the way you have written the sub-forum titles. They are more designed to attract the user. In this case, make sure you have good coverage in your sub-forum descriptions of related keywords. Not only does that help get those terms on the page, it also "frames" the thinking of your users when they enter the forum looking for topics to discuss.

I would like to see you using the new vBSEO template once it is released, and adapted for use with your site.

I would prefer that you remove the sub-forum description from the top of the thread pages. Try something different. Replace it somewhere else on the page, like after the 1st post, or at the bottom.

I'll be very interested in seeing the new template. Thank you for your compliment on the site. As far as the sub descriptions, what code would I find to move to a different location? Also as far as the post above this one - that was really great information. I went through and incorporated all of the info that you gave into the forum. I am still getting errors from the site that confirms HTML.. I took the robots.txt completely out, as well as the reference to it in the meta sections. Thank you very much again for your help. I absolutely LOVE this vbSEO... The brains that it took to construct and make this app is beyond me, but I am very thankful you made something that makes my life easier in so many ways. I would also like to sign up with the affiliates program - as I am going to be purchasing another license for another forum I have. Right now - that forum uses IPB, and I love the look and finish of IPB. But - it is so hard to get optimization on it. They are coming out with verson 3.x in the next month or two. That will change the way that it handles SEO. I'm interestedto see just how well it does.

Have a blessed day...

Mark