I'm creating this thread so that we can brainstorm ways to get more people visiting ABT to increase the traffic and get apoppin more hardware for review. I think the site has done great; it's definitely done better than I had expected it to. That said, it can certainly become as big a site as HardOCP or Tom's Hardware; we just need to figure out how to do it.

My suggestions so far:

- go all black with the main page layout similar to how HardOCP does it; I find the gradients too busy and distracting
- promote the site (unfortunately I don't know much about how to do this)
- re-establish a relationship with AMD

The last one is easy. Grow ABT and it is automatic.

As to "promotion", whenever someone asks for information that is well-covered in one of our articles or reviews, link to it - or at least the chart.

We also need to get back to contests. We have a new active editor covering the mobile tech. If you or your friends are interested in smartphones or tablets, encourage growth there. 3D also.

Aren't there ways to promote the site on Google so that you get near the top of search results? When I was building my site, that was of utmost importance apparently.

We do pretty good in the google searches.

Our problem is that we don't have a regular news guy. And we need to restart our news feeds again.

Yeah i found ABT somehow lacks in news department.That is why i post so many news
As i told u in another thread the news should appear at the top of the page,it can have a horizontal scrolling as well.

I actually like the layout of AT, it is more professional imho
Whenever u r at the homepage of AT u immediately get the impression that they review
a lot of different stuffs,that makes a good impression on the first comers.Make ur review stuffs scroll horizontally on top of the actual review.It can be thumbnails.

Hey why don't we create a way for the members to post news for the site?

That would be uber cool

We would need someone or several members to access wordpress and actually post news regularly. So far, no one has volunteered to do it

I'll do it but I don't know how.