Your Forum Review
First Impressions & Appearance
When a potential user visits your forum, you want them to have fantastic first impressions. I wouldn't say my first impressions were fantastic, but they weren't too bad. There is always room for improvement, and I will try my best to help you turn these "not too bad" first impressions to fantastic great impressions. First off all, I have a bit to say about your forum's logo. It's not a bad logo, but the font just doesn't match. I think you should a banner font for the logo. There is a pro to the logo though, it matches the board icons. Secondly, what's up with the rank icons (stars), they look really bad on a dark background because they have white on the edges of them, you should really get that fixed for sure. Next, let's see you favicon. Your favicon is alright, it looks like just a random icon you got off an icon website though. Your favicon should have something to do with your forum one way or another, and right now it doesn't. I think a favicon with "AP," a favicon that relates to advertising or promotion, or even a favicon with simply a "+" on it would fit great. Finally, my overall thoughts of your forum's appearance is pretty negative. The theme you have isn't bad, but it doesn't go well with your forum's genre. Most people prefer light themes over dark themes, especially when it comes to the promotion forum genre. So what does that mean? It's probably best for you to switch over to a light theme for the default theme. Overall, the first impressions weren't bad, but your forum isn't showing off that great of an appearance at this time.
(Score: 11/20)
Site Layout
Your forum has a total of nineteen boards. Your forum is a promotion forum, and forums in the promotion genre tend to require more boards than forums in other genres, but your forum is young and struggling with activity, I really think you should get rid of a few boards. Also, one thing that I really noticed about the board setup is that there are only a few boards actually for discussion. I think you should expand on the "Forum Development" category a bit more and maybe even add a board or two to the "Off Topic" category. First off, I feel that you should make "Forum Games" a sub-board of "ANYTHING else." I think you should then add a board relating to all media/entertainment. I also think you should minimize on the service you offer. This may sound blunt, but you have four services relating to advertising, yet considering the state of your forum as of right now, these advertisement spots are practically worthless. You should remove a couple advertisement services and then add them back at a later point when the forum is more active. Next, I noticed that you have icons for each board obviously, except for two boards; they don't have them. Why is that? If you're going to have the icons, you should keep it all flowing together, with every board having them. Finally, you should merge the "Site Help!" and "Suggestions" boards into one board. Overall, you have some improvements you need to consider making to your layout.
(Scored 14/20)
Statistics and Activity
Your forum has managed to accumulate 230 posts, 67 threads, and 37 members as of right now. Your forum has been open for about two months, so that's about an average of 115 posts per month so far. That isn't horrible, but it could be way better. How do you make it better? Well, you obviously advertise like always, but you could do even more advertising. I don't normally recommend post exchanges, post packages, etc but I think they would be great considering your forum's situation. You should also work to spread out the posts, there are currently a few boards that still don't have a single post in them. You really need to work on not having inactive boards, it makes your forum look dead. Overall, I expected more statistics-wise and your forum doesn't seem to be to active.
(Scored 14/20)
Staff Moderation
From what I can see based off "The team" page, your forum has five staff members. There are three administrators. That by itself is excessive. Three administrators is unnecessary. At most, you should have two administrators, but considering your forum's age, you really only need one right now. Having multiple administrators is not only excessive, but can be a security risk to your forum. To finish the staff team up, you have two global moderators. You really only need one global moderator, and then one regular moderator would be fine though. You really shouldn't even keep them on the staff team, the two global moderators have not logged in since late June. Also, I am getting the hint that staff moderation isn't going to well because there is an "ATTENTION SPAMMERS" topic. Not only is that unnecessary, but it's also really unprofessional. Also, we can assume the spammers are bots, so it's not like that will stop them. Overall, you need to work on your staff team and how you handle moderation.
(Scored 13/20)
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism
You and the rest of the staff team seem to be posting around professionally. All five staff members seem to be doing well when it comes to professionalism, but still also being a bit laid back as well. I did happen to notice a few spelling and grammar mistakes when it comes to your board descriptions. First of all, in the "Site Help!" board description, you need a period at the end and remove all capitalization except for the capitalization in "Having" and "Post." Secondly, in the Forum of The Month description, you need a period at the end and Forum of The Month shouldn't really be in all caps. Thirdly, in the Interview of the Month description, you are missing a period once more the last word "MONTH" shouldn't be in caps either. Fourthly, in the "Forum Reviews" board description it finishes with "giving your crucial tips for your future." It should be "giving you crucial tips for your future." Fifthly, in the "Signature Ad" board description, "admin's" should be "admins'" as there are multiple administrators and "your gets hits" needs to be "your site gets hits," "you get hits," etc. Next, in the "ANYTHING else" board title, why is the first word in caps? It's unnecessary. Finally, let's take a look at your forum's rules. Your forum rules should be unique to your forum, not something plagiarized from another forum. It says something about ForuMansion a few times on the rules, and after checking, you have just copied ForuMansion's rules. That is plagiarism unless you have been given permission to do that.
(Scored 14/20)
Total Score - 66/100
Final Remarks
Strong Points
The professionalism of most of the staff team and the services your forum offers.
Things to Improve
Your forum's theme, spelling and grammar, activity, layout, and staff team.
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