credit card Forum review,

[bijan814]

I added a forum to my website. www.bestcreditrates.net • Index page
How benifitcial will it be seo wise for the original website.
You think I should allow signture for my users.
And also what else topic should I add to it
any comment and feedback is appreated

[amxfan]

Looking at your forum I would say you would have been better off in starting a blog. I say this for a few reasons.

1. All the posts are by you. This gives no one the incentive to join as they do not see anyone using it.
2. There are too few topics.
3. Your blog would be picked up faster and generate IBL faster.

Also phpbb has a bad rep in having exploits and I would guess the version you are running came with your hosting account. These are not usally kept updated, and new updates are not usually installed in a timely fashion. I would say you would have been better starting a Wordpress blog on a subdomain or start a blog on Blog spot as I do not see you ever having the members you will need to keep the forum running. But I maybe wrong.

If you choose to let people have a sig file you may want to set it to where they have to post 'X' number of times before they can. This will help cut down on spammers

Google 'phpBB3 exploit'

[bijan814]

Originally Posted by amxfan

Looking at your forum I would say you would have been better off in starting a blog. I say this for a few reasons.

1. All the posts are by you. This gives no one the incentive to join as they do not see anyone using it.
2. There are too few topics.
3. Your blog would be picked up faster and generate IBL faster.

Also phpbb has a bad rep in having exploits and I would guess the version you are running came with your hosting account. These are not usally kept updated, and new updates are not usually installed in a timely fashion. I would say you would have been better starting a Wordpress blog on a subdomain or start a blog on Blog spot as I do not see you ever having the members you will need to keep the forum running. But I maybe wrong.

If you choose to let people have a sig file you may want to set it to where they have to post 'X' number of times before they can. This will help cut down on spammers

Google 'phpBB3 exploit'

You are right most people just read the forum, and they don't post. But there's a lot of people out there who want to promote their website by adding signatures, so I'm guessing those people will make post. I actually was thinking of adding a blog, but you can't have so much topics in a blog, a blog is not organized as a forum. Also when you said there's too few topics, this forum has been up for only five days and I already have over 100 topics. This speed it's going I will have a thousand topics in a few months.

Let's see where this forum will go, my goal for this forum is to bring up ranking for the original website, and when people go to the forum they will come to the original website, if that is accomplish in the next four months then the goal is met, if it's not accomplish and it's too much hassle to runn it then I will probably shut it off. But I am actually surprised by the amount of visitors it's getting just from the search engine.

[amxfan]

lot of people out there who want to promote their website by adding signatures, so I'm guessing those people will make post

Yes they will post. Spam in the general topic area to get a link back to there site.

I already have over 100 topics

No you have 4 main topics and 1 anything goes. You have over 100 post.

Let's see where this forum will go

Most of the post on the forums are helpful but some of the ones in the General Topic area are quite crude and offensive. Depending on who reads them they will not come back to either site.

when people go to the forum they will come to the original website

Depending on why they came to the forum. If they are only there to post a link to there site in there sig file they are not doing you or your visitors any good. Also do you get paid by the number of people who visit or by the number of people who apply?

Do not get me wrong. I think your main site is good and can help people. I also think some of the post on the forums can be helpful as well. I do believe that your forums will become a spam magnet though.

On a different note
On your main site I did notice a few issues.

On the first 2 cards when you click Apply now then button drops down on the first click. you have to click it twice.
Also the American flag card you get server not found.

[bijan814]

Originally Posted by amxfan

Yes they will post. Spam in the general topic area to get a link back to there site.



No you have 4 main topics and 1 anything goes. You have over 100 post.



Most of the post on the forums are helpful but some of the ones in the General Topic area are quite crude and offensive. Depending on who reads them they will not come back to either site.



Depending on why they came to the forum. If they are only there to post a link to there site in there sig file they are not doing you or your visitors any good. Also do you get paid by the number of people who visit or by the number of people who apply?

Do not get me wrong. I think your main site is good and can help people. I also think some of the post on the forums can be helpful as well. I do believe that your forums will become a spam magnet though.

On a different note
On your main site I did notice a few issues.

On the first 2 cards when you click Apply now then button drops down on the first click. you have to click it twice.
Also the American flag card you get server not found.

I clicked the American flag card it works, also which first 2 cards? I don't found any issues. What browser are u using? I get paid when people apply. By the way all forum become spam magnets.

[bijan814]

Originally Posted by amxfan

Most of the post on the forums are helpful but some of the ones in the General Topic area are quite crude and offensive. Depending on who reads them they will not come back to either site.


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The way I see it is they ended up on my website, and a lot of people probably have not seen a credit card website that compares credit cards. Those topics I posted even through they are defensive and crude are getting visitors because of them. Again let's see where this forum will head. I will find out in four months, if more people apply for credit cards then I guess the forum was a success if no extra sign-ups then the forum was a waste of time I will probably lock it, just myself add credit card information to it.

[amxfan]

I was using Firefox version 2.0.0.1.5

I just rechecked them and they are doing the same thing.

I also tried that site with Safari and seen height issues with those same 3 card cells.

Also received

Safari can’t find the server.
Safari can’t open the page “http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;158120283;22025924;v?https://www.discovercard.com/cardmembersvcs/acqs/app/getapp?sc=K3MW&iq_id=h487aa64f6ff2c” because it can’t find the server “ad.doubleclick.net”.


when I clicked on the American Flag Apply now link. Same error I receive with Firefox

Hope this helps.

[bijan814]

Originally Posted by amxfan

I was using Firefox version 2.0.0.1.5

I just rechecked them and they are doing the same thing.

I also tried that site with Safari and seen height issues with those same 3 card cells.

Also received

Safari can’t find the server.
Safari can’t open the page “http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;158120...4f6ff2c” because it can’t find the server “ad.doubleclick.net”.


when I clicked on the American Flag Apply now link. Same error I receive with Firefox

Hope this helps.

It's weird that it's not working on your computer. I tried that with three different computers today and it worked on all three. I used at my cousin house, work, and my own computer.

Is anyone else having that problem too?