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  1. Crayo

    Crayo Regular Member

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    About: Market Forums is a nice online marketing community where users are able to start selling, buying, trading, exchanging, reviews and much more. This forum is for marketing purposes. Not illegal activities. We do allow users to sell most things but our Staff keep a close eye. We are on a good host, we never hardly experience any down time. We keep on expanding and changing things to make it perfect, and with a member count of nearly 200 it's starting to progress nicely. We have nearly 2.5k posts which is our most impressive stat.

    Want to be partners? Do you wish to become my partner on MarketForums.org? We are currently looking for a community which has a large or a good amount of activities to be partners with us. We will add a ad of your site on our forum and you will do the same. To do this PM me.

    Our forum link: http://www.marketforums.org

    Feel free to sign up and join the community. Reviews are welcome :D


    Posted on here before in the early stages on the site. If you reviewed it then, why not give us your latest opinion :).
     
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  2. Bamboo

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    Looks a nice, active site, very well sorted. Best of luck with it.
     
  3. Shade

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    use a better theme that is more modern/ more appealing to the eyes

    if you cant then

    make a logo that matches the style of the forum

    remove the HUGE tag cloud box or at least make it smaller and all the words the same size google bots don't prioritize words because they are displayed larger or smaller
    (I do know that you can hide it but guests wont bother with it, they will think it makes it look unprofessional making them question the creditability of the site)

    and real visitors don't care about a huge tag cloud box

    unhide the forums so guests can actually see posts; hiding all of your posts is one of the worst ideas, if you wish to get members to signup then have high quality articles and post, when visitors comes to your site 95% will just leave after seeing the "no forum posts" message they won't signup

    you can still have some forums hidden but have a decent amount of content for guests

    alexa has your bounce rate @ 68% it likely higher and average page views per users 2 or so that is the page from being directed to via google or w/e and then your index page after that they leave
     
  4. Crayo

    Crayo Regular Member

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    The theme is completely custom to MF and looks very clean and professional. The one word people always describe it as is "Modern" so I don't understand your point then. Since pretty much all my members like it we'll keep it. Also they have a choice of 3 different themes, every single one of them is custom to the site.

    Sorry it was a mistake that guests couldn't see, normally they can see everything as I completely agree with you. I don't know if I will make the tag cloud smaller, members don't seem bothered and I don't want to mess with it. Also, the size of the words is due to how often they are used. We haven't manually edited any of them and you can't, lol.

    As for the third thing I don't really understand you. Can you explain it a little bit clearer please?

    Thanks for the reviews guys.
     
  5. Shade

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    Modern is headed towards the more sleek look with rounded corners and nice fluid transitions from colors/images

    I.E.
    http://www.awesomestyles.com/mybb-themes/demo/orangeroyalty
    EDIT: or http://www.awesomestyles.com/mybb-themes/demo/sleek

    and I know the tag cloud changes the size by the frequency its used My statement still stands

    it would have a better place on the search page but as you want the keywords if you have a "dumbed down" version on the index it would look better
    I.E. aeih.bz_s0_magnolia.gif

    also guest's cant change the theme at all/easily
     
  6. Crayo

    Crayo Regular Member

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    Because you need User CP to do that, and guests obviously don't have that. Tags have helped us significantly with SEO and I won't edit them at all if my members have no problem with it. So far, they don't. But thanks for the concern. That theme you linked is horrific and not modern at all. Modern is clean colours and light mainly. We aren't a Malware site so we don't need to be boring and robotic, so I think the more personalized fun theme we've created is better.

    Thanks for the reply.
     
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