Review for patientenfragen.net

Hi

I have a German forum for medical patients to talk about medical and non medical topics.



The forum runs since 2006/05/05

Since nearly 4 years now I am trying to optimize my forum for
a) my users (frontend) and b) traffic and the money that comes with it (backend).

I worked hard on my forum as well as on optimizing SEO.

I really would like to get some opinions on my forum and constructive criticism how to improve a) or b)

Have a look:
Patientenfragen.net - wir haben die Antworten (German Version)
Patientenfragen.net - we have the answers (English Version)

You can find a long term case study here on how my traffic evolved:
Patientenfragen.net - vBSEO Case Study

Give it a shot! I am looking forward to some cool ideas

StarBuG

Hello,

The biggest thing that stands out on the English site is that the welcome header is still in German.

You have no meta keywords on any showthread pages. Check your template. This might be mod-related as well.

Turn off "view template names in html" when you're not working on the site.

You have 3 base href's....

Code:

<base href="http://www.patientenfragen.net/" />
<base href="http://www.patientenfragen.net/en/" /><!--[if IE]></base><![endif]--><base href="http://www.patientenfragen.net/" />

The inner one is vbseo, and is correct.

Code:

<base href="http://www.patientenfragen.net/en/" /><!--[if IE]></base><![endif]-->

Whatever is adding the other 2 is invalid and needs to be removed.

Hi

Thank you for your tips.

Template names are turned off.
Meta Keywords should be on now.

The German Welcome message is a problem, that I am currently try to solve.
But therefor I need conditions to work on notices. I'll see, what I can do.

But where did you get the base hrefs?
Can't find them anywhere in the code?

There are two urls that point to my forum:

http://www.patientenfragen.net/ for the german forum (the original)
and
http://www.patientenfragen.net/en/ for the translated English Version of my Forum.
It is translated via Google Translator automatically.

Depending on your browser language (or the choice of language by clicking the flag) you see the forum either in German or English

But maybe I misunderstood you

StarBuG

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view-source of this page and you will see the 3 base tags.

meta keywords are still blank.

The missing keywords and the base urls are a bug in the vBEnterpriseTranslator plugin.
Made a bug report, should be fixed soon.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

no problem

Ok, now the welcome Text is also translated.

Any other opinions / critique / feedback on my site?

Fixed the Keyword problem too.

Anyone else care to share his/her opinion?

Some more tips here :

• Fix your Style XHTML Errors : [Invalid] Markup Validation of http://www.patientenfragen.net/en/krankheiten/bronchial-asthma-and-cortisone-t21650.html - W3C Markup Validator
• Use vbseo.com RR's Format.
• Nice keywords , Description.
• Are you use vBSEO Sig ?
• vBSEO Sitemap : Include only showthreads and forumdisplay pages in your sitemap.

Hi

I use vBSEO Relevant Replacements. Which format do you mean? I don't get what is wrong with mine?
I don't use vBSEO Signature at the moment.

About the sitemap.
Why only those two and not the member profiles, posts, poll results, social groups, etc?
I saw you giving this advice to many people however I can't find a single seo discussion here
that discusses the issue of what to include in your sitemap.

Thanks

Originally Posted by StarBuG

Hi

I use vBSEO Relevant Replacements. Which format do you mean? I don't get what is wrong with mine?
I don't use vBSEO Signature at the moment.

About the sitemap.
Why only those two and not the member profiles, posts, poll results, social groups, etc?
I saw you giving this advice to many people however I can't find a single seo discussion here
that discusses the issue of what to include in your sitemap.

Thanks

OK, I'll explain all of that in this post

First about the RR's Format : Relevant Replacements used by vbseo.com?

Second About the sitemap :
I'll Make new thread in Member Articles for that Today and will notify you with the thread link

What about the RR Format? I still don't get it.
It is exactly like I use it. The only difference is, that I put it in a table.
Can you please elaborate thanks
(just in case, the English version is an automated google translation of my German text)

Looking forward to your article

Check this : vBSEO Sitemap Generator : Quality vs Quantity