LoA Site & Forum Review

[legionofangels]

Ok so it was suggested I post my stats and links for a review in both forum and website, so I have attached them here in this thread for your review and any information you'd like to give.

I gave the Forum it's stats for since we installed vbSEO, and only took the recent week for the website itself since it doesn't seem to be pulling as much traffic to the main page or any of our subpages that are not forums, such as our 2 blog systems.

Please review, thank you.

View attachments for statistics, and honestly I'm surprised that our XML sitemap isn't bringing us more traffic with our News Blog. We added that after adding the sitemap, but I cannot imagine it's not putting up a ton of links as we have nearly 600 news blogs and over 100 blogs in a different part of the site that is non-forum.

Anyways take a look:

[Joe Ward]

At such low traffic levels, it is hard to judge fluctuations from day to day, unless you have an obvious trend upwards or downwards. I see some spikes in your traffic history indicating that you probably had news articles that got popular for a few days, etc.

I think you do have some areas that you can make significant improvements for your site:

• Thread URLs on your homepage are not re-written. Check out our vBSEO Extensions API:
• vBSEO Functions for Extensibility
• You should remove your *forum* title from the TITLE part of each of your thread pages.
• [How To] Remove Forum Title from Thread Pages for Long Tail Optimization / Increased Thread Title Relevancy
• You should try adding our Relevant Replacements to your thread pages.
• [How to] Setup Relevant Replacements with vBSEO
• I think the registration block you have at the top of every page can interfere with your ranking.
• I think, aesthetically speaking, you could get a white (or light) colored background behind the text.

Also checkout:

Your Site Review - Stuff to Do First

Briansol's Ultimate Guide to vBSEO