http://www.soccerboards.com - Review Request

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Joined: Jan 1970

Hello everyone. I have a soccer related website and i would like to get opinions and feedback about all aspects (design, SEO, navigation, etc).
The site is live for almost 1 year and a half and it's getting a considerable amount of daily unique visitors. I've worked very hard the last 6 months to search engine optimize it and i manage to rank it on the 1st SERP for many competitive keywords. Now i'm concentrated on building inbound links and increase my pagerank.
I would appreciate your feedback and opinions which i will use to improve the quality of the website.

Regards
Stathis Efstathiou
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Welcome to TWF! When you posted this thread you saw our posting agreement. We'd appreciate it if you would follow the guidelines there and review some other sites. If there is some reason why you can't or don't want to do this please let us know. We have just created some guidelines for reviewing websites which you can refer to if you need help there.

He has: 18 posts

Joined: May 2004

Well, this is an interesting site to review. I felt that the entrance page was a bit much, I'm not sure it is necessary, but it was pretty. Smiling
I could take it or leave it.

The overall site was nice, I think. There was a alot of green, but I'm not sure that was a bad thing. I'm just not sure to be honest. Guess I prefer other combos, so you might be fine there.

And I don't want to comment on content, because I can just feel based on your work so far that that will be a work in prgress and you probably will add a ton. So I dont see that as an iissue.

The site has a point as well, so people know why they are there. Thats good.

I would like to offer one thing though. Try not to make the pages too big, dial ups will have trouble and may get tired. So make sure all graphics are optimized. Photoshop can do that for you.

Also, Back to color again. Im not sure I like the dark print in the nav bar there on the shaded green, its a bit hard to see. You might tinker with that some. Maybe make it a tad bigger(the text in the buttons) And white on green isnt bad but you might find a better combo there too. I'd tinker some there, otherwise leave it alone i guess.

also, the scrolling text is a bit annoying. I believe you might do away with that eventually. A flash rotation might be a better option.

Overall, I give this site a 7.5 out of 10 so far. Take care. Cheers!

war

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He has: 5 posts

Joined: Jun 2004

The entrance page will confuse many people...

If you're solid on having an entrance page which leads only to one destination, prephaps a flash movie intro page would best suit your visitors taste. This way, what you have to offer would look more exciting, and thus, encourage people to continue on with the site. As it stands right now, very good. I added it to my favorites.

I look forward to watching the site unfold, and enjoying the GREAT content!!!

nice job! keep it up!

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