AdminAds
Review by Bazinga!
My first impression of AdminAds was about so-so. You only have about 60-90 seconds to impress an individual enough that they want to join your community and participate. A lot of what gave me that impression is mentioned throughout the review. Since I don't want to sound like a broken record, I'll just let you read on.
Average
The design quality of your forum is alright. It's not plain looking, it is very different. Unfortunately, I do not see how the current "theme" or "skin" matches the niche' of your forum. I'm sitting here and trying to figure out what they have in common. The "skin" of your forum, along with the rest of the graphics, should complement your forum. They shouldn't distract you or take anything way from the discussions that are taking place on your forum. My suggestion would be to utilize the 'Graphics Marketplace' on Forum Promotion. There you can request graphics or a "skin" that would be more complementary to your forum. Also, you could post a thread in the 'Job Center' and just hire your own graphic designer that can do all that for you.
Average
At the time of this review, you have 2866 posts, 626 threads, and 171 members. Those aren't bad statistics in my opinion. What concerns me is that, while most of the areas have been posted in recently, you have a few areas that haven't been posted in in two weeks or more or haven't been posted in at all. That shouldn't happen with a forum that has as many members and as much activity as yours. You need to keep activity going in every section, not just some of them. To a guest that is viewing your forum for the first time, they may shy away from your forum because of this. If they see this, they may think your current members aren't happy with your forum and they won't want to join and participate either. I would make sure that you and the rest of your staff are posting in all areas of your forum, at least 1-2 posts in each area, so that everything looks active.
Average
I didn't see any staff being unprofessional themselves and I didn't see anything getting out of hand on the forum, which means the staff are doing their job as far as moderating. You need to keep that up, especially since that is an ongoing thing on a forum. The one thing that the staff could work on, I've already mentioned in "Site Statistics".
Good
The hardest part, in my opinion, is trying to stick out from the crowd. It makes it harder to gain new members if you spend too much time blending in with the crowd. Unfortunately, you are not the only forum out there for administrators and webmasters. If you want to stick out from the crowd, you must offer something on your forum that other sites of similar nature don't have. Since you are a forum based on helping administrators and webmasters, I would try offering services to those individuals to help them improve their forum/blog/website/etc. and I would make sure they were services that no one else offered. You can even offer the services in conjunction with a contest. For example, have a contest on your forum and offer the winner free advertising for their site for a month on Twitter. It's a win-win situation for both parties involved.
Poor
Okay, this is one of my pet peeves. When I am looking at a site, I like to see some organization to it. I hate not being able to find my way around when I'm looking at a site for the first time. Nothing will send me running away in the opposite direction any faster than a site that has not organization to it. The only thing I would change is the navigation bar. I would like for it to stick out a little more but not so much that it over shadows the header/banner of your forum. When I am on a forum, I need a navigation bar that I can clearly see to help me to where I want to go.
Good
I have noticed a couple of mistakes on your forum. In the 'Social Networking' area of the 'Marketing Forums' section, you put "Facebook, Twitter, G+ or other Social sites! which method works best for you". You should capitalize the W in which and put a question mark at the end. Also, in the 'Central Exchange' area of the 'Free Advertising Forums' section, you put "Boost traffic for your community by exchanging posts, etc. With other forums." I would make the w in with a lower case and take out the etc. so that become one sentence. I'm not trying to be picky but I don't like grammar and spelling errors. To some people those might now be a big deal but they are to others. If you have individuals that speak English as a second language, grammar and spelling errors may cause them some problems so I would make sure that you proofread everything before you submit it.
Average
Final Remarks:
Overall, you don't have a bad forum here. You just to improve a few things here and there. How much you put into your forum will determine how far your forum goes. Remain passionate and you will be rewarded for it.
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