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I am loving this community pool! New to blogging and would love input on the appearance of my blog. I feel like I am constantly at my dashboard trying to make heads or tails of everything. I would also like to know how to get more followers, I get likers, but I want to capture them as followers. Hope you enjoy my posts. Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated. My blog is louiebehogan.com
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I like it and I think you have done a wonderful job. I’m learning that it just takes time to get followers. I just started a month ago and I can’t even get comments. lol Hang in there.
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Thank you!
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Hey i changed my theme i started writing short stories which will take less than 2 mins of your time , please stop by and let me know what you think . Thanks either ways.
http://rosetintedrambles.wordpress.com/
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Hi everyone! I was hoping to get some feedback on my blog as I’m always looking for improvement and for new blogs to discover. I would like to know your first impression of my blog and if you like the overall writing. Please check out my blog and I will happily check out yours!! ❤ Thank you!
http://lifebeinggirly.com/
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Hey all, I commented here last week after just setting up my blog and received some helpful advice on improving the readability of my site. Well, I took that advice and changed things up so any more input would be greatly appreciated.
Also, I would like to add an explanation of my categories as eventually there will be a few and I don’t really want to stick with boring names for them…what would be the best way to do this? Add a main/static page to each category which gives a background story? Can you do this? Or maybe add a top menu and link to the first post in each category? OR is it more user-friendly to just have the standard – self explainatory names and be done with it? Opinions please. Thank you
http://britishchickacrossthepond.wordpress.com/
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I enjoyed it. I’ve signed on for your journey.
Not sure on the answer to the question on Categories – sorry.
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Why thank you 🙂 glad you enjoyed this far
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I have some relatively quirky categories on my blog. I explain them in my “About” page. It works for me, but be aware that this does affect the SEO. If I had more commonly used terms, then I might get more Google hits. However, I prefer mine, they are more about what I want to represent, reflect my tagline, which I am also pretty fond of, and they are alliterative, which I find appealing. I make good use of keywords in my tags, and elsewhere in the posts, so I am not too bothered. Why not test out your unique categories, and see how that works out? You can always change them later, if you find that you aren’t getting the page views you want.
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Thank you 🙂 That’s some good input, I don’t know about SEO but shall get googling and pay your site a visit to see these quirky categories for myself a little later. I’m not really expecting thousands of readers but it would definitely be nice to know that like minded people could find and work my site 🙂
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Hi people! This is my second blog, and once again it’s another business one! All my blogs will be business oriented! I’m looking for critiques, suggestions and compliments! Once again if you’re going to hate please don’t bother reply! Thanks, and I really appreciate it!
http://timothykui.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=318&action=edit&message=6&postpost=v2
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I was unable to pen the link. Might be worth checking to see if the link works. I am always happy to read business stuff.
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Really? Cause I got it off reuters.com, but thanks for the heads up, appreciate it!
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http://ohnoshediiint.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/root-love/?preview=true&preview_id=2&preview_nonce=5c3983003d&post_format=standardI
Everyone! I was a carrot for Halloween this past year and would love your feedback.
Much love to you all! xo
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Love!! naughty but nice 😉
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I would love ANY feedback about my blog. It’s hard for me to judge if it has great “readability” because, I write the way I speak, and have heard that can be hard to follow.
My blog doesn’t stick to any one subject either. =D You can scroll through and see which one you want to read.
And, keep in mind, most of my blogs are typed up, around 6am, after being up all night, at work. ha! here’s a link to my blog.
http://realmom2013blog.wordpress.com/
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I like your style of writing. I really like your paragraph length, it helps my eyes with the white space…maybe a pic or two would spruce it up a bit. I think your readibility is fine, because it’s the way you speak, it feels more intimate. 🙂
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Thank you. 🙂
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I need to figure out the picture thing. 😉 My desktop isn’t hooked up, right now, because my hubs redid the basement. I’m going to try. Haha!!
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Hello I am looking for feedback on my blog. I write about my daily struggles and try to include some positive words that I learn along the way. I’m happy with the layout of my theme but anyone opinion would greatly help! Thank you all 🙂 http://conqueryouremotions.wordpress.com
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well then, I’m trying to convert my portfolio page entirely into Blog format so i’d love some feedback. nothing’s completely done yet.. still a bunch of missing content, logo and the colorscheme isn’t all there yet, but i’d love some feedback on where I’m at now.
so please swing by.
http://www.adamoe.com
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I am new to blogging and love reading the feedback given here. It helps even if it’s not pointed to me. I am going through the zero to hero challenge as suggested. I would appreciate any thoughts the tone of my blog… not sure if I’m sharing enough to connect and draw people in. I’m at http://www.winonagoldparties.com. thanks for all feedback!
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The fine line between madness and creativity. Read all about this and much more on my blog! http://techpersonified.wordpress.com/2014/01/23/the-mad-artist/
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Where is the community pool? http://tilroten.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/let-du-etter-innputt-i-kommunebassenget/
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Hello all, please take a look at my blog:
https://gajreige.wordpress.com/
Feedback and discussion are much appreciated. Also if there are any topics that you would like me to talk about just let me know by leaving a comment. Thanks!
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You have a flair for words and lot of knowledge. Good job…
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Thank you, much appreciated!
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please check this out http://aromasandflavours.com/2014/01/27/golguppas-with-a-twist/
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well written. keep going….
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Hi! I’m looking for gardening enthusiasts who would like to read about my adventures as a legal alien in South Africa!
http://thepinkcucumber.wordpress.com/
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hi here i am explaining having a website how to grow your online business success through http://createwebsiteblog.wordpress.com/
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Its been more than 7 months and I think I am not getting enough traffic on my blog. What do you think might be the problem? Help me figure it out.
I have been doing a few challenges, commenting and interacting with fellow bloggers. What more do I need to do?anything to improve on?
http://chimericalchicanery.wordpress.com/
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You have 73 followers nothing wrong with that 🙂
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the only thing that I would suggest is posting on a schedule. I see you’ve only posted three times in January, for example. As a reader, I would want more. 🙂
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It is difficult for me to find some time from college. But I will surely try and write more. Thank you for your advice. 🙂
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Hi Michelle (my middle name BTW, but with one L),
Two questions:
1. I received a WP email that Victoria is now Following my blog (yeah!) but she does not appear in my stats. Suggestion or reason?
2. I added the WP app to my iphone, but now DO NOT receive comments, likes, etc on my computer emails, only on the iphone., which is not preferable.Is there a way to correct this or must I uninstall the WP app from my phone in order to get the emails back on my computer?
Thanks in advance for your assistance!
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Hey there fellow bloggers! I would love some feedback and constructive critisism on my travel blog. I am an aspiring travel writer and am looking for ways to improve. Thanks 🙂
http://www.rovingele.com
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Love your header and your other places published page…The only critisism would be on your about page: The sentence “This is another story of a rambling traveller entering the blogosphere.” turns me off. Take out the word another. (or don’t!) It leaves me with a feeling that you don’t feel you have much more to say than the next traveller. just my opinion. 🙂 Have a great one!
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Thanks very much great point! I just took it out, I guess when I wrote that I was thinking that I wasn’t sure what I could add but your right I think that phasing it like that would put people off. Thanks again for your feedback 🙂
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Love the blog. Love the theme. My only thought is that I would avoid the few stock photos I’ve see. You have such great original photos those couple of stock ones feel out of place. I’d say feel free to go for a photo free post if you dont have anything that fits. Otherwise, I dig it. Good luck.
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Thanks Elizabeth, I think your right. Maybe I feel like it looks boring without any photos but it is surely better to have a site with only quality stuff instead of filler. Cheers 🙂
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http://www.therunninglesbian.wordpress.com
Check it out if you have a spare minute! Its a little bit funny and a little bit gay! It would be great to get a bit of feedback!
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I am wondering about my about page… please let me know if it is at interesting…or if it needs some work! One other thing: is my blog easy to navigate?
Please and thank you! http://www.courage2run.wordpress.com
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Love the clean layout. Easy to read. Nice variety without being overwelming. Well done.
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Hi courage2run. In my opinion, your about page is great. So well done. I am astounded by the amount of times I visit other blogs and think ‘oh, that’s a great idea, I must borrow that!’ haha. I quite like that you classify your subjects by day 🙂 (theology thursdays, brilliant!)
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Thank you!! I appreciate your feedback!
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Hi everyone. I just started blogging after Christmas and am really enjoying it. I haven’t sent out my blog link to friends and family yet as I haven’t got much in the way of content on the site so far.
I am creating a website about my garden with a view to cataloguing plants that I can grow in Aberdeen, Scotland.
I have posted a few blogs too – I would be interested in any comments about the look/feel of the site in general and in particular on my writing style e.g. ‘A Little Bit of Japan and Widnes’.
Any comments, good or bad, will be gratefully received. Thanks
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My fund raising idea, a little controversial, do you agree?
http://mysoresoul.co.uk/support-the-air-ambulance-take-the-money-from-the-drunks/
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Blogging is fairly new to me. Although I think I’m making progress, if you could give my blog a look, I would welcome any constructive views!
Thank you!
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Hi all! I’d love feedback on this post: http://writethroughlife.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/juxtaposition-chinese-new-year/
Thank You!
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Anyone out there, please HELP? I accidentally just deleted today’s post…PLEASE tell me there is some way to get it back?
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Did the same thing, couldn’t find it on the app but go to website and visit your dashboard, from there find posts and you should see one item in trash. You can recover it from there.
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Try deleting your whole blog of 3 years with no chance of retrieval, thats upsetting lol
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Would love some feedback! I am newer in the blogging world and trying to explore some different takes I wrote this yesterday, Thanks everyone! http://discoverharmony.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/223/
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Hey guys… I’d really love your feedback on my posts and blog. Hopefully you might even want to follow 🙂
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