Soccerlens Site Update
Time for another Soccerlens Update – today I want to tackle four topics: advertising, voting, writing and feedback.
1. Advertising
For over an year we’ve gone without paid advertising on Soccerlens (so far I’ve run AdSense, Kontera and affiliate ads for Subside Sports and Kitbag, plus promos for a couple of products). However, we’re at a point where SL needs to generate more money in order to finance the extra features I have planned for the site.
Please read the Advertise on Soccerlens.com page for more details. There will be an individual post going up in the future as well.
2. Voting
We’re at 49 votes, it’s getting a bit ridiculous now (I know more people read this site 
) so please head over to this page, take 2 minutes to create an account (enter fake details apart from your email address, if you wish) and vote for Soccerlens. Thanks.
3. Writing
I’m looking for more writers – specifically non-Man Utd writers Read this page and follow the instructions.
4. Feedback
What do you like about the current site? What would you improve in it? Is there anything you want me to add to the site?
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Serious comments Ahmed:
a) “less is more” – threads like “what if Berbatov/Robben/Ballack/God Almighty had signed for Man Utd” type threads detract from the site. They are not articles, they are at best banter or a pub conversation (I would imagine, I don’t go to pubs but you get my point).
b)How many threads on different kits do you need? Couldn’t you have a “Kit designs” thread instead of a new one for every new kit. “Outer Mongolia kitz rubbish blud, I wudn’t BY it, U NO WOT IM SAYIN”… x 100 does not make for a good website. It makes the site dull and messy.
c) Have some sort of virus that crashes the PC and then infects with the Ebola virus anyone who uses text writing or fails to use full stops when posting on the site.
Or only C if it’s a choice of the three.
September 6th, 2007 @ 22:23A) Agreed, something I’m moving towards and a reason why we started the forum.
B) 1 post per kit. However, you’re right, it does get excessive at times. I’ll trial this with a Championship kits page and see how that goes.
C) Can’t be done, sorry
September 6th, 2007 @ 22:33Standard of article writing- you really need to get on top of this. Allowing sub-standard, ill resourced and flimsy threads is seriously un-doing all the things I found attractive about Soccerlens. The Ryan Babel article is exactly what I’m taling about- I have no contention with the title, nor Arvin’s opinion that he is the next best thing but when he is so confidently quoting an out of date source you really begin to wonder, especially seeing as I’d call Soccerlens a blog of repute.
September 6th, 2007 @ 22:55And kits again- having a discussion and blurring the lines between the sponsors and the kit suppliers is amateur, real real amateur.
Make a separate kits page instead of having feeds full stop.
Advertising is fine.
You should put something in where you can quote someone else’s comments like on COS
September 7th, 2007 @ 04:35and let us edit our own posts
September 8th, 2007 @ 07:07or rather comments…see that would have been a good time to be able to edit my comment, now I’m cluttering up your board with all this extra space
September 8th, 2007 @ 07:08