Name of Site:YouTube topics Site Genre:social/media Site URL:http://yttopics.com Type of Review (Full/Quick/Questionnaire):Quick Opening Date:26 Feb 14 Additional Notes: Lacking Members activity please point out what would be the best strategy to gaining more users!!! Could Jadster also do this review for me?
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Forum Design
Looking at your site's strengths, I would have to say your biggest strength is your site design & theme. The theme seems so very nice when it is related to YouTube. The nice red color theme with white works so greatly since those are the true youtube colors. Your banner seems so unique and very creative. Your slogan is also very catchy and very interesting when talking about a forum as well. Your site favicon could use a bit of work though, Seeing it in all white with a red play button, why not flip the colors? Make it match your site design a bit more, since your site theme has more red then white, it seems suitable. Overall, I would have to say your site design was your biggest strength of your site, just because it is so creative and very attracting to new visitors. Great work! Now, lets move onto the 2nd strength of your site.
Site Statistics
The 2nd and final strength of your site that I found was your site statistics. For a new forum, your site statistics are beyond what I had expected. Most new sites have low statistics as they are just starting out but your site is the complete opposite, your statistics are fantastic and extremely high. With 211 topics, 815 posts, and 85 members! Your site has been around for several months but seeing as your site is based around youtube and youtube channels, it will be hard getting up and off your feet. Even after a few months. So I would just have to say, keep on going on this path to success and you will do great. Now once we move onto the weaknesses, those are some things you might want to make sure that you take care of because they will be the things dragging your site down. Anyways, I still think that your site stats are the 2nd best strength of YTTopics but now, lets move onto talking about your weaknesses.
Weaknesses:
Message Layout / Design
Looking at your site weaknesses, the one major thing that I see that is dragging your site down would have to be your design of your messages & posts. Mainly the post profile in each of the posts. You have the username & avatar all centered nicely, then the rank text is on the left and then your rank images are extremely large and take up a good portion of the post profile block. One suggestion I have would be to get smaller ranks & center both the rank & rank title so that you can keep a bit more organized look to your posts. This way it is more professional and just looks nicer. Another thing I would suggest, would to get some new ranks made as well. Because those ranks look more for a dark themed gaming forum / website. You can get some custom made ones for cheap and even for free here at ForumPromotion. So I would recommend taking a look into that. Other then that, the design & layout of your posts & messages seems to be fine. I just feel that the post profile seems to be one of the big things holding you down.
Usergroups & Activity
The last weakness of your site that I would recommend you taking a look at is your usergroups & activity. You have a good standing with your statistics but with no activity to keep those stats going up, your site will just plummet to the ground quickly. So try doing some new things, promote more effectively or even ask your members to help you promote. This way the word of your site will get around and you can continue growing your website to higher levels the longer you decide to keep it up. The other thing I wanted to review on your site weaknesses was your usergroups. You may have a new site but I would recommend working on your usergroups. You are currently just working on the 2 basic usergroups that are there by default, but to make your site unique, you have to work on your own usergroups and make them unique with unique colors & names as well as ranks. This way, your site looks better and seems more interesting. Overall, you have a nice site but I just hope you take my words into consideration when you go to edit your site and make it better!
Final Remarks:
Overall, YouTube Topics was a great site to get to review, it was fun and very unique with a great design and creative thought to it. I see your site doing great, as long as you can take care of those weaknesses that I have mentioned. I hope you enjoyed your review and I hope to get to review your site again some day!
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