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Hey guys! I would love to hear your thoughts on my blog. Until now I have blogged about traveling, but as I have started my studies the blog is changing. All feedback appreciated!!
https://greenlightsahead.com/
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I love it! funny and relatable. Got yourself a new follower here 🙂
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Thanks, I appreciate it!!:)
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A bit of pissed off political commentary. No, not the presidential kind. https://jefftcann.com/2016/08/21/butts/ – always interested in knowing if my points are convincing.
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You get your message across load and clear.
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Hi Zee here! I would love it if you guys could check out my latest post, it’s a little dark and somber:
https://lifeconfusions.wordpress.com/2016/08/26/night-feel-like-my-funeral/
P.s I love connecting with other bloggers and making virtual friends here so feel free to leave your blog link or any posts you would like for me to read. I will drop by to say hi 😉
Can’t wait to meet you all! 💗
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Dark but rich !! ☺️
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Hey thanks a lot for dropping by and leaving your footprints Sara. Much appreciated 😊
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Really great writing. I’m a big night time obsessor. I wrote a post about it a while back if you want to pop by and have a look
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Me too. I like night time as well. Sure it can be bad sometimes but then it gives so much to ponder as well, especially for us writers. I’ll definitely drop by at your place to read that post. Can you let me know the link to that or maybe it’s name so I can find it easily? 🙂
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escapingperfection – Because no ones life is as great as it seems is it?
https://escapingperfectionblog.wordpress.com/
Thank you 🙂
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I’ve just come back from a two week hiatus stronger than ever! My only question is, is my blog too regimented? Monday is books, Wednesday and Thursday are travel right now (usually just Thursday), Friday is Greek Life, and Saturday is Style. Is it too routine? Or do people like to know what’s coming up? Thank you!!
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I can be found here: anhistorianabouttown.wordpress.com!
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I think it’s good to have a blogging routine if that works for you. I follow several bloggers who do routine posts (e.g. “Weekend Links”) and because I know what’s coming up, I’ll often check in with their blogs to see what they’ve posted. Perhaps try a mixture of both? It’s great to have a routine, but it’s also fun (as a blogger and blog reader) to publish something a little unexpected.
As an aside: when you wrote Greek Life, I checked your blog expecting it to be literally about Greece (one of my favourite countries). And then I realized it’s the other type of Greek life. 😀
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Hello everyone, I would like if any one visit of my blog and give me feedback to improve of my writing skill, I am new in this arena,
http://lucknowsmartcity.wordpress.com
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It might be helpful to use an app such as hemingwayapp.com to edit your writing. https://gracelead.co
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http://cezaneconnects.com
Like this comment and ill be at your blog, follow me and ill stay connected forever to all your posts 😄
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Hey
I have been blogging since few months and would love some feedback on my post blog 😊.
http://styleague.wordpress.com
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Hello! I just recently started my blog, so I’m still new to this. I’ve been writing for a while, and I would like some feedback. I’m not sure if I should continue to post my works, and I’d really like some opinions. http://www.musingsofaheartbrokenromantic.wordpress.com
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Yes, you should stay and post. You have your very own little niche on the internet. Especially if it helps you to cope.
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Hello Guys. New week. New thoughts. Hope ya’ll had a great weekend because I did. My mother came to visit. The last time I saw her was last year in March. Yea, am sure you wondering. But our relationship was snatched away, but grateful I found her again and for now, she’s trying to recover the motherly love I craved for, for a long time. Today’s post is about her. Please read https://myverytrendy.wordpress.com/2016/08/29/my-mothers-daughter/ and also I had posted Part 1-3 of Mother and daughter relations You can read my whole story https://myverytrendy.wordpress.com/2016/08/09/mother-and-daughter-relation-part-1-forgetting-her/
Please follow.
Appreciated.
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Touching ☺️☺️
God bless your family!
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Hi, I’ve just started my first blog at gemsjardin.wordpress.com and this post is just what I needed for abit of advice. Please feel free to read my blog and let me know what you think. I will have a look at your blog links up above. Thanks, kind regards Gemma
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You have the right idea but, you should finish your posts before you publish.
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Hi Gem
I’m no gardener but I really like your writing style and the page looks the part. I do agree with the comment below though, and would recommend making sure all the ‘example’ text bits are replaced with your own text asap! Nice job so far though 🙂 best of luck with the garden project!
You might like my article on meditation, which you can find here:
https://thelifeshelf.wordpress.com/2016/08/10/four-ways-meditation-will-improve-your-life/
All the best,
Alexander.
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Hi Alexander, thank you for having a look at my blog. Is is because I’m writing the blog on my phone that the example text has remained? I’ve tried to remove it but it is still there unfortunately, any advice would be appreciated. I like your article on meditation and will read more of it later, what I have read so far was brilliant. Kind regards Gemma
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Ah that’s frustrating! Sorry to not be able to help you there…best of luck sorting it. Thanks for reading!
All the best,
Alexander
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No worries, i’ve sorted it. Kind regards Gemma
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I like the before and after photos of your garden revamp. Overall, your site looks good. https://gracelead.co
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Just finished editing everything! My first blog so any opions would be much appreciated 🙂 Thank you in advance.
charlotteslittlepiecesofheaven.wordpress.com
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You have a really nice blog! Love the layout ☺️
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Thank you 🙂
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I had a look at your blog. It feels like home already. And I want to be in your town. I have been looking forever for a lost place on the map. Let me just save enough money!
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Oh that’s so nice of you to say!! I’ll be sure to post more stuff about our little island in the future 🙂
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This looks great! I love the color scheme (okay, I just love pink). You might think about uploading a profile image to make your online presence a little more personal. Awesome start!
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Very nice! I love the colour scheme! My advice: consider adding more widgets!
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Thank you 🙂 this might sound stupid but, what’s a widget? :p
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Like the little things you can add to the sidebars/footers. Go to customize, and there’ll be a whole bunch you can choose from!
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Your site looks good and you write well. I think you are off to a great start. I also enjoy positivity. https://gracelead.co
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Hi. Please visit my blog as my blog is a new blog. And do comment about what you liked or disliked in our blog?
itstartswithacoffee.WordPress.com
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https://itstartswithacoffee.WordPress.com
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Hey,
I just checked this out because I loved the name, but couldn’t quite work out how it relates to the content that you post (which is also good, don’t get me wrong!). Maybe some kind of explanation about how it/what starts with coffee would tie your brand together more strongly?
I hope this is useful in some way, just a thought!
Please feel free to check out my blog and let me know what you think. You’d probably most be interested in the meditation article:
https://thelifeshelf.wordpress.com/2016/08/10/four-ways-meditation-will-improve-your-life/
Thanks,
Alexander.
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“Well, we really have put our sincere thoughts behind the name and came up with it. It signifies the start of your day which normally does with your favourite cup of coffee. It’s freshness, warmness and energising nature alluded here!
We wanted to present before the world, a blog which would help people gain a fresh perspective towards the world and at the same time entertain them with modern as well as classical literature.
We are still in inception and looking to get closer towards our objective of being a blog about anything and everything that matters!” 🙂
Alexander MJ S, your blog is great and just awesome to say. I was mesmerised with the contents which were really worth the time spent reading them.
Thanks for looking into our blog. 🙂 🙂
Have a really great day!
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Madhumita and Rohit , great blog. you guys have some great writing and good pictures.
Consider writing the source of the picture in the caption so that the owner of the picture is credited.
Do you mind checking out my blog and giving me some feedback. Cheers !
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Thanks for looking into our blog! Your blog-content is is so great and thoroughly researched. I learnt a great a deal from the last post ‘Angelpoise Lamp’ Loved every bit of it.
Also, ‘They are real!’ post was just great!
We were working on it and have credited most of the pics from Picture of the day/night. Remaining ones will be credited soon as soon as we find the sources again.
We welcome your suggestions and are keeping up the hard- work! ::)
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I like the quotes and the animal abilities. You might want to put each post in one category and display a Menu that contains the categories. If one of your readers prefers the quotes, they could click on that category and see them all instead of having to scroll past the other posts. https://gracelead.co
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Thank you so much for your suggestions!
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Hello I’m a teen blogger, I would love that someone could check out my blog quickly and give me some feedback. 🙂
https://fantaricasblogposts.wordpress.com/
Hope you are having a fantastic Monday!
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I loved your blog. I read ’25 facts’. Hahha. I am so happy that you are unabashed about who you truly are, and I totally have a thing for potato waffles, mahn.
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I’m glad you liked it! Haha I tried to be as honest as possible in that post and show who I truly was, I’ll always love potato waffles which ever age I am. 😉
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Hi,
It’s great to arrive on your page and be greeted by 25 facts! Nice one, it works really well. I also like your tagline, ‘Trying to be as positive as can be’. Keep up the good work.
If you have the time/feel like it, please let me know what you think of my blog! Thanks,
Alexander.
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Thank you!! Your book review was awesome,very well written and got me hooked till the end. Maybe you should add more about yourself and the blog to your about page as it is a bit short and for many people it’s the first post that they will read when they discover your blog.
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Hi, thanks for taking the time to read such a long post!
That is a very good point – I’ve been pretty lazy with the About section so far and will definitely address that.
Thanks you,
Alexander
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I loved your bee post. I’d suggest making sure you put titles as they help with driving traffic and pointing search engines towards your site.
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I’m glad you liked it and thanks for the comment! 🙂 Okay thanks I’ll be sure to do that!
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You’re more than welcome. If you get the chance I’d love to have you stop by writing and works. It would be lovely to hear your thoughts on a short story or poem perhaps?
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I liked your poem moonstruck, It was very pleasant.
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This Community Pool feature has a lot of promise 🙂
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If anybody is willing, please check out my blog: trouvaillee.wordpress.com
I will take any of your feedback into account
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You’ve certainly been more places than I will ever go. I like the photos. https://gracelead.co
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Thank You!
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Tanya, Fab blog !You have been to so many places – this could be a wonderful travel blog.
Consider the following :
-Add more images to involve readers
-You can have a series of mini posts based on locations within the country visited.
– A lot of us dont travel purely because we are bad at logistics and planning…consider doing help /guide posts to help people plan their travel to the destinations you have already been
I am from india and I write about beauty, lifestyle and design. Do you mind checking out any one post from my blog and giving me a feedback.
https://msplainspoken.wordpress.com/2016/08/26/the-aliexpress-experience/
Cheers.
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Brilliant- Thanks for your tips for improvement! Will make changes according to your feedback
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Hello,
This is Jyotsna here; from India. I am new on WordPress, new to blogging, and guess a year old to writing. Yesterday I posted my first short story. It’s a 205 words thing, and is bifurcared scene wise. I just want to know is my story nailed right?
https://thebesotted7muses.wordpress.com/2016/08/28/historias-de-domigo/
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I’m not sure what you mean by nailed right, but I did enjoy it. https://gracelead.co
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Hey, all. If you have time, try visiting my blog and share feedback about my posts. Hope you will like it.
https://187puneet.wordpress.com
Thank you.
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Puneet, Great writing!
You have a good theme and great use of pictures. Consider crediting the image source and work a little on spellings and grammar to make your writing powerful.
Check out my blog and let me know what you think.
Cheers
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Yeah, I too visited your blog. It’s all about makeup and it’s nice.All the info and products reviews are good.
Credits for image is always Google. I will edit when I get time. Regarding spelling errorsand grammar, I write everything on my phone and it’s a pain. I try as much as possible to edit it but still errors remain there. I will try to improve that too. I know grammatical errors maybe there but regarding spellings,i don’t think there’s a lot of spelling errors. Nontheless, thanks for your feedback.
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I was wondering if my blog was an easy read. All suggestions for improvement will be highly appreciated. Thank you
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Hi everyone. I have posted chapter 2 of Mr Scientist and would love some feedback. https://lesleyanimalblog.wordpress.com/2016/08/29/mr-scientist-chapter-2/
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Love bread but worried about your diet??🙂 Take a look at this incredible alternative: https://superhealthycooking.net/2016/08/29/cauliflower-cheese-and-garlic-flat-bread/
(And tell me if you liked it😉
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Konnichiwa,
I have updated my blog and would appreciate it if you could check it out and give some feedback 🙂 Thanks in advance
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Hey there, you have great content, but that background image is very distracting ! since the text content is you strong-point consider changing the background to a neutral colour so that your writing stands out and is much more easily readable.
Do you mind taking a look at my blog. Let me know what you think of the content.
https://msplainspoken.wordpress.com/2016/08/26/the-aliexpress-experience/
Cheers !
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Thank you so much for the advice and yes i checked your blog and it was very interesting and informative, specially the aliexpress post coz i’ve been dying to buy stuff from there but i thought it was unsafe. Good luck with blogging 🙂
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Hey, everyone! I just got my blog up last week and would love some feedback! Let me know what you think!
I’m already working on fixing my header image because it’s pretty fuzzy.
https://littlepeanutsmom.wordpress.com/
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I would really like to read more about your journey !!
Make sure to post lots of pics of your little one ☺️
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Thank you. I plan on updating along the way so be sure to keep in touch! 🙂
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Like the colours of your blog 🙂
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Thank you! 🙂
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I just made my third post! Check it out and let me know what you think!
https://littlepeanutsmom.wordpress.com/2016/08/29/momgoals/
Also, I want to do a Q&A blog so that my followers can get to know me better. What are some things you would like answered? Message me with any questions and once I get enough questions, I’ll include them in the blog!
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Hey guys! I have a contest going on and I just posted about it. Check it out!
https://psychozenmom.wordpress.com/2016/08/27/enter-my-contest/
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I changed fonts & the color scheme. Also I’m using a 2-column layout now. Please let me know if you have feedback. Thanks!!
https://justuscreek.com
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I think the two column layout works great for your blog and content. Only thing I would suggest is that your About page should be just as much about you, as the idea behind your blog. I learned that people like to see or know more about the person as well. Otherwise, looks great
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I like the layout and look of your site. I don’t agree that your About has to be about you. Certainly, if it’s a journal, it’s helpful to tell us about yourself. On the other hand, if your site is not about about you personally, then I think personal info is optional on an About page. https://gracelead.co
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Thanks for your feedback. I checked out your site; it looks good. The book summaries/study guides is a great reference tool.
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Hey guys! Pls check out my blog here https://teenmemoir.com/
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I just checked it out! I have some tips if you’d like… http://josmith1845.wordpress.com/newbie-blogging-tips/
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Sure will check it out 😊
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Your blog is lovely! The content is genuine, and the layout/background is beautiful! Thumbs up 😀
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Thanks😊
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In my latest post, I reflect on Marie Kondo’s “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying” and talk about how her philosophy of only keeping things that ‘spark joy’ inspired me. Here’s a shortened link to my post:
http://goo.gl/qCz8GA
Have you tried her method? I’m curious to hear what other bloggers think. I blog about books, travel, culture and linguistics at https://culturallife.wordpress.com
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My computer died AS SOON as I saw your comment and I got so upset lol. I love that book so much (although I haven’t read it) because I’m a little obsessed without cleaning my room and getting rid of objects with bad memories attached to them. Thanks so much for inspiring me to read her book!
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Aww no! I hope your computer’s okay.
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It’s fine I just stole my brother’s charger haha
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This is a quick review on more obsure manga sereis:
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You should check out my latest post. I know you’ll love it! And let’s be friends. http://www.creativejunkie.com
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Yay! Friends:P I’ll make sure to go have a look.
Mind maybe returning the favor?
🙂
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Hi guys it will be really nice if you could visit my site
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