Your Forum Review
First Impressions & Appearance - (Out of 20)
I'm a bit torn on your theme. On one hand, I think it looks pretty neat. While it's bright, it still has some eye appeal. On the other hand, I think that it might be too bright and too loud for a promotion forum. That being said, I'm not really sure what to say about your theme. It's incredibly simple, but somehow, I still like it. If your members have been complaining about your theme, then it might be time to change it. Otherwise, you should keep it; it
does look pretty neat. Again, your banner at the top is extremely simple, but somehow, your theme looks good to me when it's all put together.
Your forum looks decently active at a glance. You do not have any empty forums, and your statistics seem decent. I do not think that members would be put off at first glance.
Overall, my first impression of your forum was pretty good. As I said, though, you should really get some of your members' opinions on your theme.
(Scored 16/20)
Site Layout - (Out of 20)
Your layout is about as concise as any promotion forum's could be. One recommendation I may make is to think of some original services; I have seen every service you have on other promotion forums. More unique services will help you stand out more from the other promotion forums. Also, I think that you should remove the "Marketplace" forum until your forum grows a bit bigger. In the beginning, that forum will probably just lie dormant; members will probably advertise things that they are buying/selling on promotion forums that are more established. You can always use your exchange forum for threads of that nature. Other than that, though, there really isn't much you can do to improve your layout without compromising the theme of your site.
(Scored 16/20)
Statistics and Activity - (Out of 20)
According to my calculations, your forum receives approximately eighty posts per day on average. You have nearly twenty-five posts for each of your forty-nine members. That isn't bad at all (especially considering that your forum is two weeks old), but there is still room for improvement. I would recommend increasing your advertisement on other promotion forums if you have not done so already. Your forum is also still extremely new; post exchanges are still a great option to boost your forum's activity. Just be sure to keep up on your promotion so that your forum continues to grow.
(Scored 17/20)
Staff Moderation - (Out of 20)
Your forum currently employs one administrator and one reviewer. While that mathematically appears to be enough for your community's size, you need to remember that promotion forums usually need to be staffed a little more heavily than other types of forums to be sure that the services run well. Although I
rarely encourage people to hire more staff members (most people overstaff their forums), I really think that you could use at least one or two people to do packages. If you hire one or two extra staff members, then that will probably be enough until your forum grows. I suppose that you could
get by without staffing anybody else for now since you probably aren't getting an overwhelming amount of requests, but just be sure that you're on top of staffing if your forum's growth warrants it. You and your other staff member do appear to be quite active. You appear to do a very good job of welcoming new members to your forum, but you may want to tell your reviewer to welcome new members a little more often. Despite my minor criticisms, though, your staff appears to be doing pretty well.
(Scored 15/20)
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism - (Out of 20)
Although some of your descriptions toward the bottom are a bit lackluster, the descriptions of your services make them sound really useful. I would recommend changing the descriptions of your non-promotion forums, though. Also, you have some grammar mistakes on your forum. Some rules to remember are that two complete sentences that are joined together must have a comma and a coordinating conjuction (for, or, nor, so, but, and, or yet) or a semicolon. Also, you have some commas in places where you don't need them. You also have some sentence fragments (some statements that should be one sentence are broken up into two sentences). One example of the last two errors I mentioned is the description of your "Exchange Corner" forum. It currently reads, "Request any sort of exchange. Whether it is, member/member, 5/5 or active/active. Also spend your hard earned PP Cash here to buy posts/members for your forum." It should read, "Request any sort of exchange whether it is member/member, five/five, or active/active. You can also spend your hard earned PP Cash here to buy posts/members for your forum." Another error I saw is showing ownership. If you're showing the ownership that two people have over one object, you only have to show ownership on the person that is closest to the object (e.g. "Get your advertisement in every Administrator's and Moderator's signature" should read, "Get your advertisement in every administrator and moderator's signature"). If you clean up the grammar mistakes and spice up some of your more boring descriptions, you'll be doing very well.
(Scored 14/20)
Score - 78 (Out of 100)
Closing remarks: You are doing a good job so far. Keep it up.
Forum's strong points: I personally like your theme.
Improvements to make: You need to clean up some grammar errors and make some descriptions more exciting. You need to improve some other areas as well, but you mostly have simple errors in those areas.
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