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Hello everyone. I have been blogging for over a year now, pretty much “in the blind” regarding feed back on the overall site and themes.
Two questions:
1. I am using custom photos (4) for my header and they change randomly. Is this positive or is it a distraction? Sometimes the random image does not go with the blog post topic that it appear over. Does that matter?
2. I just posted an item in two parts. Am interested to have an assessment of readability, level of detail, use of multiple parts, use of external links, etc. The subject is roughly US maritime history, lightships, etc.
Any other suggestions or observations will be appreciated.
Thanks, Renaissance Musings
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I have two blogs and on one of them, I have custom headers that change and I am sure that they don’t match the text, personally I dont think it matters as long as it is a nice picture.
I think 2 part posts are find if the content will otherwise be too long, I do think that you should link to post 2 from post 1 though (if maybe there but I couldnt see it).
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I’ve been doing the A to Z Blogging Challenge for the past two weeks. Can’t believe I’m near the halfway point. I’ve gotten comments from fellow bloggers all over WordPress and other sites. It’s encouraging to read and know someone enjoys what you write.
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Hello folks …..https://knowherephotography.wordpress.com/
Do visit my blog. If you want to. I’ve few good pics and post which you might like. Let me know how was your experience .. Thanx ……
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This is part 2 of my first series of blog posts–they are a response to that narcissism study that came out a few weeks ago. Would love feed back.
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Hi everyone, my latest blog post is an article on “Greed: Good or Bad – Scientofic Views”, here is the link where you may find it:
https://effectivethoughts.wordpress.com/2015/04/11/greed-good-orbad-scientific-views
You may read it and comment on it whatever comes to your mind related to the article, negative or positive. Helpful feedback and advice is also highly appriciated on the post.
Thank you!
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I’m a new blogger and I would love to have someone check out my page layout and the writing of any one of my blogs- I’m specifically interested in my grammar and sentence structure, it is not my strong suit. Thanks!
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Hi, welcome to blogland! Your page looks great. I was so caught up in what you wrote that I forgot to take notice of the grammar and sentence structure but it certainly flowed well and gripped me. Sharon x
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Hello,
I have a few concerns when it comes to my blog. My first concern is based on the overall aesthetics. The design to me seems alright but I think I need more to make it look a little better and interesting. Any advice that could be given about the design to captivate followers would be appreciated.
My second concern is about gaining followers and generating traffic. My blog is pretty new and I know that it takes time, but I want to know about those who have generated traffic and gained a following if there are tips/tricks that I could be using to help to gain more readers.
I appreciate any feedback about my concerns or about my blog in general. Thank you.
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Your blog is great. It’s clean, responsive, easy to read and your about page was fab. Just a quick pointer, I think your menu needs a ‘home’ tab, just so that the veiwers can click that rather than having to go back via their browser. In all though, great work, keep it up!
P.S – those black shoes are to DIE for!
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Thank you for the tip! I didn’t even notice. A second eye is always a benefit.
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You’re welcome 🙂
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https://knowherephotography.wordpress.com/
Hope you’ll find it interesting
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Wow, the pictures you took are awesome, each one has so much soul, such impressive works… I will follow your blog for now – thought this is really special and unique…
Your monochrome works are even more impressive… This depth and the composition…
you truly deserve a lot bigger crowd of readers!
Yours, Mary
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Thanks for the heartfelt reply. I don’t know why but the monochrome ones are always touching. Will keep posting more. Stay in touch.
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Maybe because the reduction of color means more focus on the actual motives… Your welcome, just speaking a bit of truth 🙂
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Yeah you are. Less colors less distraction.
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Hello everyone,
In August I will be going on a trip to Oz for at least a year travelling. As a first time traveller I’ve started a blog for many reasons – to feel like I’m talking to someone so I never get lonely, to keep friends/family updated on what I’m doing and basically just share the amazing experiences I will have with others.
I am trying to build up a base of followers before I go by currently posting about anything to do with my travel plans and beauty and lifestyle based stuff too. Could you please look at my last few posts and give feedback on whether the content is interesting, have I structured it in the right way, or do I babble on too much or repeat myself constantly?
Any constructive feedback is much appreciated 😃
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I am going to leave a few suggestions, and you are free to take them or leave them 🙂
1) an About page would be helpful for people who are just coming to your blog. All I know if you are going to Australia in August, and your name.
2) Take the time to spell check, and read through for typos and punctuation that spell check won’t catch. I usually write and revise in phases, and step away for an hour or so prior to hitting publish.
3) Preview your posts to make sure the layouts are correct. On my screen, your post regarding your makeup has scattered photos with text woven in between it, making it difficult to read.
4) There is a lot going on on your sidebar. Putting like widgets together would help. If you don’t need all the badges in the sidebar, perhaps you could put them in the footer?
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Lovely I will take all these into consideration thank you so much for your feedback 😃
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I’ve created a draft of an about me page could you please take a look and give some feedback please https://escapeexplorediscover.com/?p=105&shareadraft=552c547464cab
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Sorry I entered the URL wrong it’s http://escapeexplorediscover.com/?p=105&shareadraft=552c547464cab
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I will be happy to check when I get home from work! If you don’t hear back from me by tomorrow morning, send me a reminder please!
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Thanks so much Melissa the draft link just was not working so i have published it now so you can find it under ‘start here’ on my blog. 🙂
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Looks great!
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I agree with the above commenter, Melissa. She pretty much nailed it for you 🙂
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Thank you, looking at the actual content (minus the grammatical errors I now notice *cringe*) is it interesting or engaging or is there any suggestion you have to make it better? 🙂
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100% you need to proof read. Not that grammar and spelling stopped me from reading! I just irked me a bit. Nothing wrong with content! That’s entirely up to you anyway. I would say that your blog is developing fine, focus on the direction you want it to head in and continue. The only thing I feel compelled to ask is if your going on holiday or backpacking? I read about your backpack but it seems like your packing for a holiday rather than a backpacking trip. If it were me, I’d carry light and replace as I go. I would also ditch all make up apart from mascara and a bit of tinted moisturiser. You can wear suncream over foundation and without it youll burn lol
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Good afternoon! I registered my domain yesterday, and imported my posts and did a redesign, whew! I changed my designed so it has significantly less white space. I’d like to get your thoughts on the new design.
Do you think it’s too cluttered? Or just enough? Does the overall purple make it seem amateur?
Thanks! Melissa
http://melissaindc.me
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I loved your blog, just followed it. 🙂 It isn’t cluttered at all. And the purple, it seems just fine to me!
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Thank you! It’s got a little more going on than the previous one did, but my header had nothing to do with DC, and I figured I needed to change that.
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Hi, I’ve just looked at your blog and I actually really like your layout. It’s clear and organised. I’ve recently changed the theme and layout of my blog too. If you have the time it would be great if you could check it out 🙂
https://infinitedaydreamer.wordpress.com/
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Thank you, Melis! I’m still tweaking some things, but I’ve got the foundation in place. I really like the design, as a free one, as it’s the only one that really pleases my eye when I mess around in the customizer.
I’ve noticed you and I have the same theme, so I like you layout and look 🙂 This is more a personal thing, but I enjoy a graphic up at the top of the sidebar- I think it’s more eye catching than the blank space left by the follow button. Perhaps your blogging university badge?
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Thanks for your feedback! That sounds like a good idea, I think I might move my blogging 101 badge. I recently changed my layout because my old one was getting too cluttered and I much prefer this theme 🙂
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Nobody knows about my blog at all. What advice would you have for an obscure person trying to write a blog others will actually read?
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Just continue writing. Join in the conversation like you have here. Maybe participate in one of the blogging 101 events, they’re really helpful. Make sure you’re tagging and categorising your posts and take time, very few bloggers gain followers over a short amount of time. Patience is key 🙂
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I like your clear writing but I couldn’t really find an about. I check out your about words tab and stuff but it still didn’t give me any insight at you what your blog is about. Maybe an ‘about this blog’ tab would help gather followers, I know people like a clear ‘this is what this blog is about and what you’re likely to find here’ kind of thing 🙂
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Good evening bloggers!
I’m dying for some feedback and some acknowledgment towards my new Spa Review post. I worked really hard on it and everyone need some luxury in their lives at some point, right?
I really enjoyed this spa visit and I wanted to share it with my fellow bloggers!
I have a few more reviews on here that I hope you like too. This is to help my career in Journalism feature writing. I’m a graduate and trying to put myself out there in the world of WordPress!
All advice and feedback welcome, and I will do the same for you!
Many thanks!
Amy Lee x
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Hi everyone! I’ve been blogging for awhile now, but I don’t really have too much traffic on my blog. If you have any suggestions on how to improve upon that, please let me know! It would mean the world to me if you could check out my blog : https://theprotego.wordpress.com/ and tell me what you think of it! Thanks a ton. 🙂
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I followed! I too am working on gaining traffic and building readership.
I love your header photo!
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Thank you so much! 😀
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Your blog is really pretty and well presented. I struggle with traffic too, I just keep trying out different tags and go from there, I think it’s also a case of getting involved with the community, commenting here, doing blogging u courses, doing things that way can get your blog out there to regular readers, people who enjoy what your writing, like minded people who’re on the same page and just slowly progress 🙂
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Thank you so much! I was just checking out your blog, and I really liked your layout! It’s really charming, and neat. Thanks for your suggestions, I shall definitely be doing all of them!
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You’re welcome, and thank you!
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If anyone fancies checking out my site and giving me some feedback I would be eternally grateful 🙂
https://blondewritemore.wordpress.com/
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It’s cool, I like it. Really informative, you’re writing style is great 🙂 the only issue I had was the page layout on my phone. At the top it has your latest tweets, it took me a little while to realise I needed to scroll down the side rather than through your tweets to get to your content. It may just be me and the way the page is laid out on a mobile screen (iPhone) and probably not as an actual web page 🙂
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Ok Thx for useful feedback – I will look into that 🙂
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You’re welcome 🙂
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Hello everyone 🙂 I just wrote a post about the intersection of the criminal justice system and mental health. I was looking for some feedback and opinions. It’s a quick read. https://thesocialparalegal.wordpress.com/?p=331&preview=true&preview_id=331 Thank you in advance.
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Hello people. I started a weekly blog three weeks ago and would very much welcome any feedback, good or bad. One question I have is what are your thoughts and advice on post length and detail – I prefer to be quite brief but wonder if and how this affects the success of my blog?. My blog is called Weekademia and each post is inspired by a quote and/or image from my working week. So it is essentially an academic lifestyle blog and I’d like to have guest posts and regular student contributors once it is more established.
I’m very happy and keen to also provide advice to other bloggers at the same stage as me.
Thanks and I hope to hear from some of you.
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Oops forgot to link the blog, durrr! http://weekademia.com/
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You blog is clean, responsive and well written, great use of images too. I didn’t think your posts were too log or two short, you covered what you had to say in the space you used, that’s good. There’s room for more tagging and categorising, you can have a maximum of 15 between the two and that should get your blog appearing in more places. It’s always worth checking out the tags you’ve used too, looking at how active they are can help you figure out if you should continue to use them or not 🙂
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Thank you so much for taking the time to have a look and comment, and that’s great info about the tags and categories I have a lot to learn about WordPress!
I’ve just had a quick look at your two blogs, I’m a mom myself so I’m naturally drawn to your Kaboodlemum blog which I think is great. The other one is also fun and I like the diverse mix of content and fun images
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Thank you 🙂 you’re welcome 🙂 if you ever want some more feedback feel free to pop over and ask, will I’ve feedback as soon as I can 🙂
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Found it really interesting as I’m thinking about doing a PhD myself and perhaps trying to get into academia, so your content is definitely good for me to read 🙂
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Thanks, I’m trying to target that audience as well as established academics. Good luck with the PhD should you decide to go down that road, I’ve just enjoyed reading a few of your poems and posts you have a great looking blog.
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Thanks for stopping by! Look forward to reading more of your stuff in the future 🙂
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Hello friends!
I would love some feedback on my newest post! Check it out:
https://biancamblogs.wordpress.com/
And if you need feedback on your blog feel free to ask me!
Thanks!
Bianca
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Really well written post! I liked your words and the way the post felt. Overall your blog is really clean, neat and well presented 🙂 keep up the good work!
My blogs – http://www.kaboodlemum.wordpress.com
And
http://Www.introvertedfangirl.wordpress.com
Could both use some feedback if you have the time. If not, I’m more interested in the second one 🙂 I’ve only really just started getting it going again!
Thanks x
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I like the look of your blog, the layout is all nice and easy on the eye. Only suggestion I would make is at the bottom of the posts I read you have a long link, such as http://baravavrova.deviantart.com/art/lost-in-the-darkness-399172644 on the latest post. I think it would look better to have a clickable link rather than a raw web address.
I like your writing style though, on the few posts that I read it stands out and drew me in, I followed you as I am interested in reading more.
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Hey everybody!!! 😆
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Hi everyone,
A lot has changed on my blog this week and I would really appreciate some feedback.
I made the decision to change the theme and layout of my blog and would love to know whether you like the way it looks. I’ve also posted a few blog posts including “dealing with disappointment” and “quote of the week”. All feedback/constructive criticism is always welcomed as it all helps me to improve the quality of my blog.
https://infinitedaydreamer.wordpress.com/
Thank you 🙂
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I enjoyed it. It’s really nice, clean and responsive. Easy to navigate and it doesn’t seem cluttered at all which is a bonus. I liked your content too 🙂 I’m also a daydreamer haha. Congratulations on your awards too, ta always nice getting recognition!
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Thank you for your feedback, it’s good to know my new layout is okay 🙂
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You’re welcome, happy to help 🙂
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I like your layout ant theme a lot! I have chosen the same one for my blog ;P your header is really nice and your sidebar not crammed. Your article about disappointment was really good! I can totally relate to that. I thought for years that I wanted to study art history but then from one day to another I wasn´t so sure anymore. I gave it a thought again and camo up with something totally different. At first I was really disappointed in myself because I thought I had it all figured out, but now I am rally glad I changed my mind because I love what I am studying now soo much.
xoxo
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Awesomeness! You made the right decision for yourself and you’ve not regretted it, that’s fab and well done for choosing something you enjoy 🙂 thanks for the feedback, it’s a great theme! Took me a while to get my logo and the colours to match but I got there in the end and haven’t looked back 🙂
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I really liked your blog! I love the quote if the week feature and your writing is very reflective and interesting to read.
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*Of the week. Sorry, curse of the autocorrect on my phone!
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Thank you for such lovely feedback 🙂
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Evening all! Jumping in the deep end of the pool this week and asking for some feedback on my newest blog, possibly my latest posts? If you have the time that is 🙂
http://Www.introvertedfangirl.wordpress.com
Would really like some feedback please and thank 🙂
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Wow, you write brilliantly! So glad I found your blog.
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Thanks 🙂 which blog did you check out? X
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Checked out both the introverted fangirl and Kaboodlemum 😀
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Ooh! Thanks! I’m glad you like it 🙂
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Good writing, not into the topics but I was curious are you from the Uk or US? do you mind reveiwing my blog? I liked the feedback you were giving other bloggers
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Thanks! I’m from the UK 🙂
I’ll pop over soon and have a look for you 🙂
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Hey! Just had a chance to pop over to check out your blog. First impression was okay, it’s a non responsive site so it was really small on my phone screen but it didn’t stop me from navigating your blog. It’s clean, tidy and well written. I think your image sizes are spot on, not too big or small. With regards to your widgets, I would personally reduce the amount of blog shown under the ‘blogs I follow’ widget. I think you should add a follow button and archives to the side bar widget space too. Your menu was easy to navigate. I personally don’t have much interest in your topics but they’re well thought out and written, from what I can see you’re doing fine just explore the widget area and see if you can find something you like 🙂
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Hey folks, I’m currently a college student heading into my Junior year. On my blog you’ll find photographs I have taken with some thoughts. However, these aren’t ordinary thoughts. They’re the thoughts that run through your mind just as your head hits the pillow. When your in your room in complete darkness by yourself, and it’s just you and the battlefield inside your brain. I write about these late night thoughts ever so often, and would love some feedback on my site found here: https://bt3photography.wordpress.com/
You can also find me on Twitter @ BE_TEE_3. I would love to meet some fellow bloggers and connect with you all!
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I really like your blog! Especially your taste of music, and how you pair up song with some of your posts. Try not to be so casual, though. It’s great to write down a stream of thoughts, but I feel you can structure them better.
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Thanks for the input noor, I’m glad you enjoyed the blog so far. Will definitely keep that in mind when writing future posts.
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I’m always late to these! Finally published my first post in the “Unearthed” series as promised. I would love feedback. As a new blogger, I have enjoyed the journey so far, and every like, view, follow and comment means so much. Check out my first “Unearthed ” post: https://radieuxese.wordpress.com/2015/04/12/unearthed-tingling-facial-mask/ . I hope you enjoy it.
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This is fantastic! While reading this, it feels as though we are sitting opposite each other. I can almost imagine your facial expressions as you experienced and wrote this! You certainly gained a new follower and we’re looking forward to reading more from you!
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Thank you! It’s great to hear such positive feedback as a new blogger. Thank you so much! The support means so much. I’ll make sure I check out your blog. Once again, thank you.
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Hey, I published my thoughts on the desert’s sky the other day. I’ve been on wordpress for a while now, but I haven’t really commited to it, thus not many people read my poems. Here’s last week’s, titled “Sons and daughters”
I’d really appreciate your thoughts and criticism on this poem or any other, Cheers and have a great week!
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hey, obviously really like your stuff, both in English and Spanish. Just wanted to say so on ‘primavera’ and I couldn’t find a place to comment? I may just be being stupid and just not seen it, and people don’t necessarily always comment on poetry anyway, but may be worth having somewhere where people can easily leave comments 🙂
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Hey, obviously a fan of your writings as well, haha. There’s a small plus sign under the “Like”, “Reblog”, “Facebook”, etc buttons that allows you to comment. I’ve been striving to make it bigger, more visible, but I have not succeeded as of yet. Thank you though! And I always appreciate a comment on my poems; I’ve received some really constructive ones! Cheers (:
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Hey! My blog is a Christian devotional type blog. Check it out! I’m looking for some followers, maybe some discussion, etc. I will definitely return the favor, thanks!
http://www.morgangroenewald.com
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Your content isn’t appealing to me personally, I don’t really know what most of it means but, from my perspective, your blog is clean, fresh and really well written. I’m confident the people who are interested in your content will enjoy it 🙂
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I ALWAYS do that! Comment at the bottom ad not on the post! Sorry peeps! My bad lol
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Hey guys! I am a new author part way through my first attempt at a psychological thriller novel. I’ve been speaking with some very successful authors of my genre and would be grateful if you could stop by and even follow my progress. I need as many followers as possible in preparation for its release. I have just had my front cover back from my designers and it is incredible. I can’t wait to finish this journey and share it with everyone. I absolutely love this new found venture. Good luck to you all and thanks for stopping by. Mark http://www.markdraycott.com
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Review of Bikini by Janusz Leon Wiśniewski https://poseidons99.wordpress.com/2015/04/13/januss-leons-visnevskis-bikini/ 🙂
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Hi everyone, if you’re based in the U.S. or are familiar with U.S. cities, I’d love for you to weigh in over in the comments section of my recent post: http://jhaneellockhart.com/2015/04/12/travel-dilemma-chicago-vs-d-c/
In the meantime, I’m happy to check out or give feedback on everyone else’s blogs.
Thank you!
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Hi, I’m thinking of moving my blog from blogger to wordpress, as I’m relatively new to blogging and should be able to make the transition without too many problems. I’ve transferred my previous blog posts to a theme that I like the look of, just to see what my blog would look like if I did make the move. I’d really appreciate some feedback on what the blog looks like so far!
https://bookmarkedbookblog.wordpress.com/
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Hello! If you decide to take the plunge and move over to WP, feel welcome to reach out to us in Support if you get stuck at any time during the transition.
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