Check this puppy out!

[Rex]

Ok now give me your true input on what it needs and what it doesn't need.

ThePokerLounge.org

[Georgia Poker]

I think the site is clean, well laid out. However, how are you driving traffic to the site? There are a million poker forums out there so I'd suggest doing something to put yourself ahead of the pack. Freerolls are bad idea in my opinion as you'll get freeroll whores who will add zero value to your forum. You gotta think outta the box and make people want to join and participate in the forum.

In my old forum, I gave away tourney chips based on post count and content. You can get a plug in for Vb that will track this for you. Maybe try something along those lines and open a store where they can spend the chips. I know www.chip-talk.net does this.

[psmoney]

I agree with Georgia your site is very clean and well designed, but how are you driving traffic and how are you monetizing your traffic?

[Rex]

A good bit of the traffic comes from google for various terms, and the other 30% of from other areas that I promote on.

right now the site is doing around 100+uniques a day which isn't terrible for a new site but when I bought the site a few weeks back it was dead so I'm trying to pump up the activity a bit.

as far as monetizing I'm just now getting into that have signed up with FullTilt to just to see what kind of impression/CTR that I may get from it.

So things are really still in the beginning stages.

But thanks again for the comments and keep em coming!

[psmoney]

Full Tilt is a great room to promote, and I think you will have success with that ad, and once you get some stats from that expand you advertising base, so your traffic is not going to waste because most people that come to your site are not going to ever visit it again on a regular basis, so try to capture them in anyway possible.

Just my 2 cents and I like what you have done so far.

[Rex]

Thanks for the .02 . I've been in the forum business for some time and have a few forums over the 500k post range so capturing the audience is always what it's about but I'm beginning to think the poker arena is a bit more difficult to do so.

But I'll just keep plugging along I guess. hehe

[psmoney]

Yes, but you have a poker video section and I dont think this is a common area in poker forums so if you could expand on this section and really include alot of videos you cannot find elsewhere, and maybe add strategy video's.

[Rex]

Yah. def. working on that

[psmoney]

I think a good idea for this section would be to find a way to video all of the major online tournament final tables and add in commentary. I really enjoyed this feature pokerstars added into the WCOOP events this year.