Jun 15, 2015 / Community Pool

Community Pool

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

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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).

To help us make the Community Pool a productive space for discussion, here are some tips you might find useful:

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  • While you’re not required to, we encourage everyone who requests feedback to also reply to at least one or two other bloggers who need some help. Spread the love!
  • The Community Pool comments section can get quite big — and starting duplicate threads doesn’t help. Thanks for not posting the same question more than once! We tend to delete duplicate comments asking for feedback on the same post.
  • If you’re looking for quality feedback, be as specific as you can. Questions about a particular post tend to draw more comments than ones about entire blogs. Questions about specific design elements are more likely to be answered than ones asking for general layout advice.
  • We discourage leaving links without a more substantive message or question. These are often overlooked by other bloggers, and we frequently remove them to make the comment reading experience smoother.
  • Please keep all comments civil and constructive. The idea is to have fun — it’s a pool, after all!
  • When leaving comments, please remember not to add your blog’s url as your signature. It’s kinda spammy: after all, your handle links directly to your blog.
  • If you haven’t looked at our Commenting Guidelines in a while, now might be a good time.
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  3. Greetings from India!

    I have been blogging for a while now and I feel that my blog is taking a shape now. Critical feedback at this stage will be really helpful.

    I like to read real stories, specially on sport, science and travel. Long form journalism interests me. I am finding interesting stories around me or from what I read and writing about them. Most of the posts you find are my musings; I’d really love to exercise my creative muscle on ‘real’ stories (This American Life is the epitome of that) as it is less painful, iYKwIM.

    In case you were wondering what the title meant, it is roughly the velocity of light in vacuum. Yes, I am a science student and my big goal is to write regularly on science. I have written a couple of them (not in this blog) but have been slow because I want to be doubly sure they’re really good!

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  4. Would LOVE some opinions on my very first blog post it’s taken me a while to ‘perfect’ my baby. Excited to post the next few following this. More than happy to check out all yours as well 🙂

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  6. Hey so I’m totally new to the blogging world but so far I am enjoying it. I would really appreciate some feedback on my blog set-up and content though, as it is hard to tell if my approach is appealing to readers. My blog primarily focuses on photography and I would love to share ideas or get constructive criticism from similar blogs. Thank you for your time! 🙂

    Link to my blog: https://rainyfriday5pm.wordpress.com/

    Latest posts:

    Très Chill.

    Across the Ocean.

    London Underground.

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  10. Sometimes I forget 2 do a post at my “blog time” and 1 time I was gone 4 MORE than a week!!! I’m going on vacation soon and I don’t know how to “keep up” with my blog!!! Major help needed!!!

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