The year end update thread for Admin Talk

I wanted to put together a list of some of the changes we’ve gone through in the last 4 months of this year. (This will also be covered in our first newsletter which you can subscribe for in our sidebar)

1. We changed our name to Admin Talk
2. We’ve upgraded all our xenForo scripts
3. We’ve added a portal as a home page
4. We’ve updated & expanded our link directory
5. We’ve added a media center for video tutorials
6. We’ve merged 3 smaller admin forums
7. We’ve added plugins to help interaction across all platforms
8. We’ve added 2,000 backlinks so far
9. Sig links visible to guest
10. We've Sponsored our 1st WP style.
11. We've started adding content to the Admin Talk Blog. removed

Here are some items that we have to look forward to in the near future.

1. Send out our first newsletter since I purchased the site.
2. Custom branded photoshop tutorials. (These have been paid for, waiting on delivery)
3. Expanding our interview section, I have several lines up, just need to write out the questions.
4. Skin for the forums, either the paid one we had before or a custom one like we have now.
5. We will be getting a new logo, this is after we set the style. (I will hold a paid contest for this over at DP)
6. After the logo, we will be getting a nice style for the link directory.
7. Custom tools that forum admins would find useful
8. Possibly a blog subdomain that will be integrated with the userbase of the forum.
9. Release a few styles, defiantly wordpress styles, hopefully some forum styles as well.
10. Backlinks backlinks backlinks! Lots of backlinks, all over.
11. A forum contest soon for real $$$$!

I have a few more ideas but want to make sure I word them correctly so not to give away too much to our competitors who are most likely watching this forum. I’d like to always have a roadmap of the forum progress; I think it’ll make the site more enjoyable as a user if you know there will always be new stuff going on at Admin Talk. We’ll likely update this thread until the end of the year or just slightly after, and then we’ll make an updated version.

 

Good Going Brandon .

Can't wait to see new updates and style .

 

I just saw their update on facebook, it was posted Sunday and said it should be ready in a few days.
So hopefully by this weekend.

 

Good stuff bro, and also, when this year comes to an end - it would probably be good to include our forum stats, so we can see how much we've grown going in the next year, and do comparasions or something

 

I'll try to make a updated post on my blog but to be honest, the domain changing took and HUGE hit on us.
It has slowly started to clime back but it's going to take another quarter to recover from that.

 

Some nice updates in there, looking forward to the rest of the changes.

 

At one time I released 10-20 wordpress styles all with a link to (at the time) a blog that I released them at. (wpstyle.sheley.org) I've had that redirected to my general-forum for the last year, I changed that redirect to this site so we'll get several backlinks from that. I checked webmaster tools yesterday and seen several blogs showing up, over 9,000 backlinks so far! I think it'll top out at 20,000 links for us, not a ton but it'll help.

 

Look's like I've arrived just in time, can't wait to see these

 

Thanks everyone.

Little snag with the tutorials I purchased. I've worked with this guy in the past and he's always given quality work but it sometimes takes a while till I get the tutorials..lol
I waited 3 weeks and just sent a request for a refund.

I made a thread at DP looking for other tutorials like the ones I've posted in the past.I've had one person contact me so far, hopefully we'll get something up soon. I've also started looking for some nice themes to purchase links on. I found one premium theme that I'm talking with the designer about right now. Looking to get 4 footer links on it and it'll be distributed to 120 theme sites with a report.

 

Who ? Custom made by which site /company . Share the information i am out there looking for some skins too .

 

This one isn't a "custom" skin, but it's a nice paid skin that came with the sale.
Audentio Design is who owns it now, they said it may be ready by the end of the day.

 

I know skin is really good but it's not for admin forums.

 

1. Add custom webmaster tools for the members of Admin Talk

That will be interesting!

 

I just picked up the 4 footer links on this wordpress style.
One will be to these forums, and one will be to the link directory.
The other two will be one to my general forum and one to my blog.

You didn't like it? I did when it was on here before.
We'll see how it goes, this blue one you see now will still be an option.

 

We've added the peachykeen style, I'll work on the logo tonight and a few plugins that need added, fix the portal page then make that style default.

*PS.. if you want to check it out, you can select the style in the footer*

 

I like the peachykeen style better. Its seems more professional to me.

 

ya I like it to but it has some issues with our portal that need fixed before it goes live

 

There are more then a few bugs with the PeachyKeen style, I'm waiting for an update from the designers before we'll go live with it as default.

 

I see according to this tool
http://www.sitemapdoc.com/serp-rank.aspx
we're #3 for "Admin Forum"
and #9 for "Admin Forums"

I think that's pretty bad ass!

 

Yup, and that didn't take too much time.