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KevinL

12-28-2008, 04:26 AM

The Stomping Grounds (http://thestompinggrounds.com/forums/)

We have been open for almost 4 years but had to close for about a year. So we just re-opened a few months ago with a new name and design. Pruned an incredible amount of posts and we're left with what you see now. It has been tough getting the members back. Some have come back quick some not so much...So let's have at it haha

Review on:

Forum Style
Forum Layout and Set Up
Anything else you would like to add.

Please be truthful and blunt. I would like to know what I can do to make it better.

Thanks! :)

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Friendly bump :o

Marco van Herwaarden

12-29-2008, 09:52 AM

Make sure to update your license with the URL where the license currently is in use. You might get into troubles with our Piracy department if you do not keep your URL current.

KevinL

12-29-2008, 11:09 AM

Make sure to update your license with the URL where the license currently is in use. You might get into troubles with our Piracy department if you do not keep your URL current.

Thank you! Forgot about that! Updated it ;)

METALVSRAP.COM

12-30-2008, 11:57 PM

i respect what your trying to do... but unfortunately for you there is already a forum called offtopic.com and it has a ton of members..... but your site looks a lot better then that site

SEOvB

12-31-2008, 12:06 AM

You may want to get rid of the footer links: Cheap Credit Cards|Loans|Loans|Servidores|Guitar Lessons

They'll kill any SEO thats been done.

The grey text that says "Teh interwebs" is small, and barely visible due to a lack of contrast.

The register link, doesn't appear as the others do, it shows up to tall.

The image your using for the welcome.png is pretty bad looking. You may want to try to get a higher resoultion one

KevinL

12-31-2008, 12:08 AM

Hey thanks for taking a look :)

Yeah I know there's a site offtopic.com haha and about 150k other ones just like it. haha

But I'm hoping I can figure something out...hey the big don't always stay on top for ever...look at all the banks in the US ;)

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You may want to get rid of the footer links: Cheap Credit Cards|Loans|Loans|Servidores|Guitar Lessons

They'll kill any SEO thats been done.

The grey text that says "Teh interwebs" is small, and barely visible due to a lack of contrast.

The register link, doesn't appear as the others do, it shows up to tall.

The image your using for the welcome.png is pretty bad looking. You may want to try to get a higher resoultion one

Those are all rel=no fallow so that shouldn't be bad...right?

Can I get a picture of the those 2 other things? I have checked them on all browsers and they looked OK to me :o

METALVSRAP.COM

12-31-2008, 12:29 AM

SEOvB

12-31-2008, 03:49 AM

Hey thanks for taking a look :)

Yeah I know there's a site offtopic.com haha and about 150k other ones just like it. haha

But I'm hoping I can figure something out...hey the big don't always stay on top for ever...look at all the banks in the US ;)

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Those are all rel=no fallow so that shouldn't be bad...right?

Can I get a picture of the those 2 other things? I have checked them on all browsers and they looked OK to me :o

No follow doesn't prevent the spiders from leaving your page and going to theirs, CO-OP link networks like that are greatly frowned upon, and you won't recieve any benefit from using it (unless a fincial one maybe?). Its a big risk, with little to no reward, just do a little googling about "co-op link networks for seo" and read others results/gains.

KevinL

12-31-2008, 04:14 AM

Thank you very much for all that!

I will be working on that stuff. Any other suggestions?

jlew24asu

12-31-2008, 01:10 PM

your navbar is AWESOME. one of the best I've seen. well done

KevinL

12-31-2008, 05:12 PM

Thank you very much :)

nando99

01-03-2009, 02:40 PM

is the mascot custom? if so, who's the designer?

KevinL

01-03-2009, 03:24 PM

Nah man. Not custom per se. I bought the vector from a design site. Has some really great work. If I find the link I'll shoot it to you if you want.

Winterworks

01-03-2009, 03:32 PM

Could I also please have the link? I love the image! :)

If you could either post it here, or PM it to me, that'd be great!

nando99

01-07-2009, 05:13 PM

Yeah... I'd definitely like the link... cool site 2...

Gladhatter

01-07-2009, 05:45 PM

I hav Just viewed four sites so far and yours rates a 4 out of 10 probably and thiers maybe a 1 and 2 and 3. Get rid of some of that trash at the bottom and network to get members.

KevinL

01-07-2009, 08:44 PM

By "trash" do you mean the copyrights? ..it's kinda hard to get rid of those...

Gladhatter

01-07-2009, 08:58 PM

Just looked again and I would better call it clutter I think. It seems some copyrites that are riddable by purchasing the rights to rid that but also the adverts and all the lenghty text and such and really when its not that much stuff all piled together that way makes it look like more.

I am not sure what is good or not but I reviewed it from my prespective and again to date the others I looked at it is in the mix with them and I still rate it a 4 and one or more others a 5 and most a 1,2 or 3 I have seen so far.

KevinL

01-31-2009, 12:25 PM

Well I re-designed The Stomping Grounds...So if you could please give me an update on things.

Review on:

Forum Style
Forum Layout and Set Up
Anything else you would like to add.

Please be truthful and blunt. I would like to know what I can do to make it better.

Thanks! :)

Rocket 442

01-31-2009, 12:54 PM

The navbar looks good, but the links in the forum section are all invalid links.

KevinL

01-31-2009, 01:03 PM

The navbar looks good, but the links in the forum section are all invalid links.

Thank you. I re-wrote my URL's and forgot to change the forum numbers! :o