Review By Ryan+B on Top4Prem
Number Of Members: (7/10)
Your forum has been open for just under a month and you have a total of 47 members. For a relatively new forum, this isn’t bad at all. Although it is a good achievement so far, it could definitely be improved and you will really need to try and keep it up to get your forum more active. To get yourself more members, I recommend that you keep on advertising on every forum that you see. That way, more and more members will gradually arrive at your forum.
Number Of Active Members: (4/10)
To be honest, despite having 47 members, your forum doesn’t appear to be very active at all and, because of this, I doubt that many guests would actually want to join your forum. To get your members more active, you should send out a mass email or something reminding all of your older members to come back and take a look at your forum. Overall, improvement is necessary in this category and I am being very generous by giving you a 4/10.
Number Of Posts (Spam or Otherwise): (9/10)
Your 47 members have made a total of 937 posts, which I don’t feel is bad at all. In case you were interested to know, that is an average of 20 posts per member - an achievement that any forum would be proud of. I can also say that not too many of those posts have been made in your Forum Games section, either, which is always very nice to see.
Appearance (First Impressions): (7/20)
One of the putting-off factors about your forum is the very basic template. That template is used by near enough all of the football forums on MyFreeForum and I get quite sick of seeing it. It is quite good to see that your template matches your forum genre, though. I’m also not really a fan of your logo - it is quite small and very basic: some text slapped onto a couple of images from Google and a border put around it. I recommend that, when you have enough cash, you request a logo from the FP Graphics Team. I can assure you that they are a very good Graphics Team who will produce a really nice logo for you. Overall, your template isn’t very attractive and too common.
Layout: (7/20)
I see quite a few things that should be altered with the layout of your forum. I really do not like the extra ad that you have stuck at the bottom of the forum. The MyFreeForum ads are bad enough without you adding an extra one as well. I also think you should take more care when adding your forums, I see many spelling and grammar errors in the forum names and descriptions, which is really off-putting. For example, you have spelt ‘Improvements’ wrong and missed out many capital letters for names of teams, consoles and sections. You should go through all of those and get them sorted out. Finally, you have forums for all of the ‘Big 4’ teams in the UK but for some reason have also added an extra forum for West Ham, which just isn’t right. I recommend that you get rid of all of the team forums and just set the layout of your forum to the divisions: ‘Premiership’, ‘Championship’, ‘League 1’, ‘League 2’, ‘FA Cup’, ‘League Cup’ etc. In general, if you sort out the things that I have mentioned, your score will shoot up.
Moderation: (9/10).
Your forum appears to be well moderated, although I feel that you have too many staff members. At this moment in time, you should just have yourself and 1 moderator. You do not really need 2 administrators until you get past at least the 200 members mark.
Activity: [color=#40FF00(4/10)[/color]
As stated earlier, the activity level on your forum isn’t too good and could very much be improved. Methods of improvement have already been posted.
Spelling and Grammar: (0/10).
As I mentioned briefly earlier, nearly everything on your forum does not have good English grammar. I feel like your English teacher by saying this, but, sentences should begin with capitals and end with full stops, names (including names of football teams, forums, members etc) should always have a capital letter and you should take good care when you are typing to avoid spelling mistakes.
Overall Mark (Out Of 100): (47/100)
Your forum has a long way to go before being successful. Use the hints that I have given you, advertise your forum regularly and you will gradually succeed. The main thing is, do not give up! You cannot expect your forum to be successful like some forums straight away - these things happen gradually over a period of time. One final thing to say to you, good luck!
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