Mar 2, 2015 / Community Pool

Community Pool

The place for advice, feedback, and friendly blogging chatter.

Have you just published a new post and are dying for some feedback? Did you recently start your blog and could use some layout or design advice from your more seasoned peers?

Tap into the wisdom of The Daily Post blogging community and leave your question here in the comments. Others can then click through and offer input either on your site, or in the comments here (feel free to indicate which you’d prefer).

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  2. Hello Everyone!
    I am new to the Blogging community, I would really appreciate it if you would check out my blog! I am a young writer and I want to be a journalist. 🙂 So, a little criticism and constructive feedback would mean a lot to me!
    Thank You!

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  3. Hi there everyone,
    I have recently set up a photo blog to present my best pictures and show the world what I see through my camera – https://sallywiddowsonphotography.wordpress.com
    don’t let the dates on the blog fool you, I have backdated some posts so I could include some favourites! I’d love any comments on layouts, and advice please on including a copyright notice somewhere (how do I do that?!?) also does anyone have tips on attracting followers as I have none yet!

    Many thanks,

    Sally

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  4. Hi everyone,

    My blog is quite new and I’ve only done three posts so far. The first post – “the three types of hand shakers” – seem to get more views than the other two.

    I was wondering if this was because the first post was more readable and entertaining than the other two?

    I would very much appreciate if you could have a look at my blog and provide some feedback please!

    https://fourwheelsblog22.wordpress.com/

    Many thanks in advance 🙂

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  6. just started blogging a few days ago. I’m into poetry and writing about some of my more interesting experiences. Would appreciate feedback on my writing style and maybe some tips on my site layout? Thanks 🙂

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  7. Hey,
    Everybody I am fairly new to blogging. I was wondering if you gugs could check out my post and give some feedback I will gladly return the favor!!

    Snooty Judy

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    1. Hi Taylor,

      That’s a great reason to start your blog, we could all do with some more kindness in the world.

      My advice would be to possibly make your blog posts a little shorter, and maybe break them down into smaller paragraphs with an image here or there. It can be hard to read big chunks of text on a screen, especially if it’s a small device like a tablet or a phone. I hope that is some help.

      Finally, I LOVE the name of your blog, great choice!

      Good luck blogging!

      Susie G. (www.susiegmurphy.com)

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  10. Hi everybody!
    I’ve been blogging now for a little bit more than two months. I took both courses blogging 101 and 201, and they were amazing and very useful. I learnt a lot. I guess now I’m doing pretty good, still I think it might be the right moment to ask for some feedbacks. The blog looks good to me, but I’d love to hear what are your impressions and I’d like to receive any kind of suggestion from much more expert bloggers, to try to improve it. I’ll accept any kind of remark, in fact it’s what I’m looking for. Thank you all in advance!
    https://gianluca8675.wordpress.com/

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  11. Hi all…I am new to blogging, and just posted my first entry. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Also not sure how to get found. Any ideas? Please reply here. Many thanks, Andrea

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  13. Hi everyone,

    I am a historical romance writer and have my blogsite up and running for nearly two years, but due to shyness have only recently begun to really put myself out there in the blogging community! Turns out it was much easier than I expected because everybody is just so nice and friendly. 🙂

    I have just put up a new blog post about having an identity crisis (!) and would be very grateful if you would take the time to have a look and respond at this link:

    https://susiegmurphy.wordpress.com/2015/03/08/should-i-lose-the-g/

    If you don’t feel like commenting on that particular topic, I absolutely welcome all general feedback on my website too.

    I’m now going to toddle off and have a look at the other blogs posted up here. Looking forward to connecting with you!

    Susie G.

    (If you read my blog post, you’ll understand why I just dithered for ages over how to sign off!)

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  15. Hey everyone,

    I hope some of you have time to tell me what they think of my latest blog post. I examine the problem with arab men and dominance. Love to hear your opinions.

    Majdnassan.wordpress.com

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  17. Hello wordpressers!

    I took a break from posting on my blog as I was struggling with some writers confidence issues over the past few months, much the same as I’m sure many of you have gone through throughout your writing processes as well. I’ve been writing just not posting, but I’ve decided to just get back into it and just focus on getting better at the craft! I just posted three new pieces of varying length to my page and I’d love to get feedback from you guys! Any and everything would help. By no means is it brilliant but I hope you guys have as much fun reading them as I did writing them. Any comments on my older stuff is also welcomed.

    Thanks everyone!

    https://theeoutsider.wordpress.com

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    1. Hi Klenn,

      It’s great that you have got back into writing again – it can be easy to lose confidence but there is a lot of joy in finding it again!

      I have a couple of recommendations about the layout of your website. You have two ‘About’ pages which both say the same thing – why don’t you use one of them to give us some different information or maybe change it into a ‘Contact Me’ page? Also, while I really like the circle windows for each post, it can make it difficult to read the titles for each piece. I wonder is there a way to adjust the words within the circles so we can read the full titles?

      Congratulations on producing so much content for your website and best of luck with it!

      Susie G. (www.susiegmurphy.com)

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