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Old 03-31-2008, 11:38 AM
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Hello websters, thanks to this forum, I was able to get my website and my forum up. Now this is in its infantile stage so, I ask for all the criticism possible and any help perfecting it. Thanks to Lisa, I've been viewing this website for the last 3 months and I finally made my own 1 week ago.
My website is www.taquilamemories.com and recently added a forum www.taquilamemories.com/health. Let me know what you all think.
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Ps. Now I have to figure out How to link my website to my forum. It'll come hehe.
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Old 03-31-2008, 10:43 PM
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Congrats on your new site!

You have a very nice clean design. I have to admit, I'm not a big fan of Flash Intros. They look cool but they just get in the way and they can also prevent the search engines from reading your homepage.

May I ask what kind of traffic are you hoping for? Seems your site is on a few different topics so I'm wondering how you plan on promoting it and what kind of visitors you want to attract.

I also noticed you don't have any meta tags on your HTML pages. These are a component of search engine optimization you'll want to visit.

http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2167931

You should definitely focus on driving traffic to your site first and then funnel traffic to your forum from your site. It's difficult to get a forum off the ground when traffic is low.

Nice start.
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Old 04-01-2008, 05:24 AM
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Hi femsa,

I am very glad you got your site off the ground and I hope it will prosper. I am however obliged to give you a fair review over a few things.

The site looks good but I find that the "Taquilamemories.com" is a bit small. Making it bigger can make your page look more appealing and you definitely want your website's name to stick to your visitors' heads.

Secondly, you might want to create a logo - I don't think that's all too important for your type of website but it could always help in identifying it.

You forgot something very important and that's your title, well it seems there's something there but it's not really very descriptive to any search engine. Remember that the search engines take what's in your title to display it in the search results. In other words google will have you ranked as:

Which is nothing more than your URL.

I also agree with lisa that you should work on driving traffic to your site first before establishing a forum - perhaps fill in those blank "Under Construction" pages first. Content is king!

Good luck
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