Nov 28, 2016 / Community Pool

Community Pool

The place for feedback, advice, and blogging camaraderie.

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      2. Considering ours is the same way, it didn’t bother me 🙂 Though we are working to eventually get to a static home page that has a blog section as I do think it’s a better presentation of all the things your site has to offer.

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  2. Hi everybody! I’m new to writing so I’d love your constructive criticism.

    In my first link I’m trying out a challenge for myself and anyone else who takes the challenge. I was hoping to create a conversation about the Wikipedia article of the day. I’m finding it hard to drive any traffic to the post.

    1. https://connorgraham.ca/2016/11/22/challenge-1-learn-something-everyday-for-30-days/

    In my second link I would love some input on the content quality.

    2. https://connorgraham.ca/2016/11/24/be-the-difference-how-to-outperform-anyone/

    Is there anything you would recommend tweaking to improve the overall quality or content? I appreciate any feedback!

    Thank you WordPress community!

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    1. Hi Arwa,

      Before I was able to read through your post I noticed that you have an unformatted text box in your sidebar widget section!

      Otherwise your page looks very nice. I will have a read through your post!

      Connor

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    2. Hey Arwasaud.

      I like that your blog is straight to the point but I think you could do with proofreading your work. You wrote that: ” I have a lot of cousins and uncle”, should it be uncles or I have an uncle and a lot of cousins?

      Also, Africa is a big continent, Where in Africa are you from? When you started writing your blog, I would suggest to write “I grew up from a family from ________ in Africa”. Say where in Africa that you are from.

      Just as an additional bonus, I would have liked a picture of outside your house to give me an understanding for those who aren’t familiar with what it is like to live in Africa.

      Overall, I would suggest to proofread your blog before it gets published or get someone in the family to do it. There are some punctation that needs to be replaced. For instance on the third paragraph e.g. “Because no one chose what they look like so why would we judge them for something they was born with!”. The exclamation mark should be a question mark after “with”.

      I hope you found this feedback useful.

      Life Happening Now

      https://realjoephill25.wordpress.com

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  6. Hi everyone,

    We’ve just decided to kickstart a blog (beginning with our trip to Europe in just under 2 weeks). Considering neither of us have skill in creative writing ha (maths brain here!!). Itd be great to get some feedback on our first post!

    We’ve just started working on the page so it is a work-in-progress, but any feedback is welcome 🙂 Ill spend the morning going through some posts and seeing what you all have to share.

    Thanks!

    M & M

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      1. Thanks for the feedback!
        Do you just mean a link to the overall blog in the individual post? (Little confused sorry!)

        The trip is through a Contiki so starting in London, working through Paris, Switzerland, Italy, Munich, Amsterdam.. just to name a few! Very excited haha I figured will all the long bus rides it’ll give me a chance to write and photograph some of the memories!

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    1. I like how you have a variety of different categories where you have the freedom to blog. I try to utilize that format as well! I enjoy reading other perspectives from around the world.

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  11. Hello everyone, my name is Angel and I’m kinda new around here and am still getting used to everything. So if you could go take a look at my posts and give any feedback, that would be greatly appreciated. I haven’t had many visitors and would like to know how to get more traffic, I update my social medias whenever I post something new. Again, any feedback is greatly appreciated 🙂 Thank you!

    https://angelmousy.wordpress.com

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    1. Rainy Days is a good post. Putting a blank line between paragraphs would make it easier to read. To gain more visitors, have you tried using the WordPress Reader? You can set up tags to find posts similar to yours. If you put likes or comments on some of those posts, it will make your site more visible to those likely to be interested in your posts. https://gracelead.co

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      1. Thank you, I just noticed that and am going back to fix it 🙂 Thank you for your input, I’m still new and am not quite sure how it works yet, but I will try it out. Thank you again 🙂

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  12. Hi everyone. 2 questions.

    1) Any bloggers out there want to do a guest post exchange? I do humor, politics, and history. Check out my blog to see if we’d be a good match.

    2) Can you think of any political topics that you want to know more about but don’t because you hate reading boring, lengthy articles? I want to help with that! I’m looking for new content ideas and I thought I’d try asking ya’ll for topics you’d want to see explained and made fun. I’m open to all suggestions.

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  13. I started my blog back in February, so i’m still new to all this. My blog was inactive for a couple months, but I just wrote a post recently and am looking forward to writing a lot more frequently soon!! Please check it out 🙂 I write all about my experiences and adventures and how my unique perspective on life allows me to learn lessons everywhere I go

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    1. Commenting on other people’s blogs, following them (those that you like) would help get others to recognize your existence in the blogosphere.

      Perhaps writing the blog in English as well would help boost traffic and followers.

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  16. I’d like to invite everyone to stop by and read a poem from a few weeks ago, “Beautiful Agony.” It’s received a positive response and I’d like to share it again for anyone who hasn’t read it. If you like it, please leave a like on the post page and follow me as I post several times a week. Of course, I welcome comments and any feedback, please leave them on the post page as well. Thanks in advance for reading.
    Drew

    Beautiful Agony

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    1. Well said. Over the years, I’ve found that something I learned in a job that I thought was pointless is now something God weaves together with other abilities He has given me. That helps me remember that whatever I am doing, I should be doing it for Him. https://gracelead.co

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    1. I like the look of your site and it’s easy to navigate. I enjoyed your recent post. Thanks for sharing your childhood memories. I noticed you assigned it to several categories. I didn’t see those categories in your Menu. Perhaps some of them would be better as tags. https://gracelead.co

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  21. Hi all! So I wrote a post on voting for Trump as a black woman. It’s a series I’m writing and I would love to hear your thoughts in the comments if you have any. I have only posted part 1 at this time but I will go more in depth.

    I think it offers a perspective maybe people haven’t heard before. Even if you disagree or can’t see the perspective, I think the entire series will still offer something new.

    https://reignoffaith.wordpress.com/2016/11/15/surrendering-my-politics-god-and-my-vote/

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    1. Hi Sara 🙂

      Thanks for following my blog. I appreciate that 🙂

      If you like watching British Rom Coms, can I request blogs on:

      Bridget Jones Diary (1,2,3)
      Notting Hill
      Love Actually
      Four Weddings and a Funeral

      If possibly Rom Coms is or isn’t your thing, I would suggest:

      Sherlock Holmes
      Titanic
      The King’s Speech
      Henry V
      Inception
      The Dark Knight
      In The Loop
      Harry Potter

      I only suggested those films because they are the movies I’ve seen and it be nice to hear a review from that.

      I hope that is food for thought 🙂

      Life Happening Now

      https://realjoephill25.wordpress.com

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      1. I’ve never seen Notting Hill and I’m taking my first trip to London soon so I was planning on watching anyway! Thats a good possibility and theres few others you listed that have I would love to write reviews about! Please stay tuned. Thanks for following me!

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  23. Hi lovely blogger and reader ^_^ I have started my blog Honey Lemon a few week ago, Okay, Its name sound vague–My blog is about life, photo, recipes and craft..I will be so happy if you may take a time to read it!! And you may leave some feedback and comment there!! I have posted an instruction for how to make a paper basket from reused paper! And more about recipes and photo 🙂 I don’t have a lot of post but I wish you will like it! Here is a link for my blog https://myhoneylemonblog.wordpress.com
    And this is a link for post! https://myhoneylemonblog.wordpress.com/2016/11/28/reused-paper-basket/ Thanks for your time

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  27. Happy Monday blogging friends! Hope everyone had a great weekend. I took a week off from blogging last week since I was busy with work and kids and getting ready for Thanksgiving. I am back at it this week with a post about important papers that we should keep. Hope you will check out it out along some of my other posts at: http://merrymadnessblog.wordpress.com Thanks!

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  28. Hi, I took a break from blogging to spend time with my family over Thanksgiving. Then I had to go on a business trip this week so I haven’t had time for my blog. I just quickly wrote a new post so could you please check it out? I’d love any feedback that I can get from you fellow bloggers! This post is about staying motivated.

    http://www.happywifeylife.com

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  29. Hi Everyone! I started a blog this weekend after wanting to for quiiiiiiite some time! I am really looking forward to meeting and chatting with people who have the same interests and to learn some design/coding…do you guys have any suggestions on how to really learn things like putting scroll bars in? or id love to have some tabs for the different subjects of the lifestyle blog, not sure how to add them as separate parts of the blog… kind of like the about me/ contact tabs if that makes sense. Has anyone taken classes on blogging? or more so a learn as you go type of thing?

    thanks!!! feel free to chat 🙂

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      1. no I have not, that sounds like exactly what I am looking for! thanks for the tip! 🙂 Still trying to figure out the wordpress websites and menus lol

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