Dec 19, 2016 / Community Pool

Community Pool

The place for blogging advice, feedback, and camaraderie.

Note: The Community Pool will be closed for the holidays next Monday, December 26, 2016.

Thank you, Pool participants, for providing incredible feedback to your fellow bloggers in 2016 — especially those of you did it so regularly and generously (looking at you, paminat0r, Natalie, and V Donovan!). See you all in 2017!

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

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  2. Hello people! I’ve just posted on my (mainly film) photography website some photos from Christmas spent in Paris last year, if you’re interested in photography then have a look (or if you want to get in the Christmassy mood!) and do let me know what you think. If you post photography too and think I’d be interested in your stuff then let me know.

    The post is here:
    https://anotherlifeinlondon.com/2016/12/22/christmas-in-the-10th/

    and my website is here:
    https://anotherlifeinlondon.com/

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      1. Thanks!! I am happy that the humour got through to you! I will take care of the tags right away……Thanks a lot and Merry Christmas! 🙂

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    1. I like the ideas in your post. Your advice seems good. Your post would read better with some editing. For instance, “Especially in school life.” is not a sentence. It seems to belong as part of the previous sentence. There’s a typo: “yo have managed” should be “you have managed.” There’s a spelling error: “there opinion” should be “their opinion.” https://gracelead.co

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  6. Hi, here’s a recent post from my flash fiction blog, To Cut a Short Story Short. It’s called So Many Ways to Die, twenty little extracts from the ‘darker side of my blog’.

    If you enjoy that kind of story you might also like to check out Tiny Demons, Here Comes the Sun and Killer on the Road from the ‘recent posts’ list in the sidebar!

    https://simonjwood.wordpress.com/2016/11/29/so-many-ways-to-die-excerpts/

    Also, if you might be interested in joining a 300-word fortnightly story group please contact me via my blog and I’ll be happy to send details.

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  15. Hi all, just popping by to say hello and Merry Christmas. 🎄😀😀. I’ve been blogging at http://joncoombs.com for a while now but have been more active with it this year. A question for the regulars here: What have you found that has increased your followers and readers the most. After such a long time writing on WordPress it can get a bit frustrating when things don’t improve. Having said that, writing for writings sake is fine with me too. Haha.

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  16. Hey! Greetings to you all. I just posted something on my blog and it’d mean the world to me if you just took a little out of your time to visit my little corner and read what I just put up there. I’d appreciate all comments and likes. To a blogger, it’s like the air I breath [the comments, likes and follows]
    So below is the link, I do hope I get responses and hopefully the time spent on my blog is enjoyed. So click and get teleported into my world that has space for you and gladly awaits you.
    https://vickieshubb.wordpress.com/2016/12/22/what-does-christmas-mean-to-you/

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  20. Hey there! I just published a post today about Christmas and the realizations that I had. You guys might be interested in reading it, also please comment your feedback if you want. 🙂 Merry Christmas!!!

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  23. Hi Folks!!! First of all a Merry Christmas to all of you out here in the blogging sphere. I am a newbie in this vast world and have currently posted my first article whose link can be found here
    https://enigmaticmotivator.wordpress.com/2016/12/25/discovering-the-journey/

    Let me boast a little about myself so that you get an idea who am I and what is the blog about. I am Enigma, a mystery. I have kept my identity private in this world. So, this blog is for all those people who desperately are in need for some motivation, the shattered ones, the ones who are searching for confidence and encouragement. So here I present this blog.
    I am not boring you, am I? So peeps, without wasting your much time here I post my about page…
    https://enigmaticmotivator.wordpress.com/about/
    I am very excited to make new friends in this new world… Looking forward for comments and likes…
    Bye People, thank you for reading this longgggggggg comment
    Loads of love
    Stay blessed
    Enigma

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  24. Does anyone have suggestions for posts I should do in the future for my blog, The Power in Writing (thepowerinwriting.wordpress.com)?
    Happy holidays!

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  25. Hi Fellow Bloggers,

    I hope you all had an amazing Christmas.

    Well, I spent my Christmas writing about my recent trip to the beautiful Himalayan hills in Uttarakhand. Here is a link to one of the pieces:

    A Trek in the Rolling Hills of Auli

    Please feel free to leave your comments.
    Wishing you all a very happy new year ahead of time.

    Cheers!

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