Please critique my forum alhnuf.com

[Xdrive]

Hi .

Please critique my forum منتديات الهنو�


Thank you

[A.Chakery]

Hello,

I reviewed your website, here is my suggestions for your forum :

• Try to validate all of your style pages : [Invalid] Markup Validation of http://alhnuf.com/ - W3C Markup Validator
• Try to use a forum url structure either with www or non-www (I suggest you to use non-WWW coz WWW is deprecated) >[How to] Setup www.yourdomain.com or yourdomain.com (www vs. non-www) - With .htaccess 301 redirects
• Try To replace vBSEO Relevant Replacements with built in vBulletin Heading tags : VB4 RR's?
• Try to use Robots.txt (Here is an example : robots.txt - 1 KB )
• Try to use a CDN service (like MaxCDN.com) using vbseo CDN feature.
• Try to submit your website in Directories like DMOZ and Yahoo directory.
• Try to include only Showthread / forumdisplay / blog pages in your sitemap
• Try to remove Calendar and FAQ only for guests

Best Regards,
Ali.Ch.

[Xdrive]

what do you mean by " a forum url structure " ?

[A.Chakery]

I mean :

http://www.domain.com 
or
http://domain.com

Regards.

[Xdrive]

Thank you .

Iam now using NON WWW as you suggest. and Iam using the CDN for images/Javascript/CSS .

and about validating the styles am seeing 55 errors and don't really understand what is it ! how to fix it ?
I see the VBSEO forum also has 52 error .

[A.Chakery]

These errors are related to your style, and please note that you should validate all of your style pages such as forums/threads etc.

Your style should be in valid XHTML encoding.

For Example you should close all tags properly even standalone tags like Break tags ,

here is an example :

You should use <br /> instead of <br>

you can find and validate your style using the HTML Validator :
[Invalid] Markup Validation of http://alhnuf.com/ - W3C Markup Validator

Personally I spent so much time to get it done cuz some codes like Facebook or twitter are not using Valid XHTML codes.

Good Luck.

[Xdrive]

Thank you .. I fix all errors on forumhome .. but I have just one error now .. it is :
end tag for "table" which is not finished

How can I fix this !

[A.Chakery]

You should search for it, I have no idea what codes you are using in your templates so I cant help you. I almost designed my style myself so when I was validating my style I knew where is the exact errors.

oh you can also use vBSEO Virtual HTML feature to validate some of your codes.

and please note that you should solve validate your errors just for guests cuz google bot comes as guest.

Regards.

[Xdrive]

Thank you . I fix all errors I can .
I have now only 1 error on forumhome . is this good ?
or should it be zero errors

[A.Chakery]

Thats better if you solve all errors.

Keep on the good work

[Xdrive]

Thank you A.Chakery .

[A.Chakery]

My Pleasure,

Good Luck