Feb 6, 2017 / Community Pool

Community Pool

Where bloggers come for friendly feedback and advice.

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?

The Community Pool is for peer feedback and advice. Looking for more specific information? Check out some of these resources:

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).

Looking for free, self-guided courses to help you get started with your blog (or revive a dormant one)? Check out our current offerings at Blogging U.

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

  • 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, as well as for not starting numerous threads in a single Pool.
  • 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. Also note that including multiple links in your comment might automatically put it in the moderation queue, which will delay its publication.
  • Please keep all comments civil and constructive. The idea is to have fun — it’s a pool, after all!
  • To keep from losing your place in the comment thread while you visit others’ blogs, right-click on a link to open it in a new tab or window.
  • If you haven’t looked at our Commenting Guidelines in a while, now might be a good time.
  • No running on the deck.

Are you a new blogger looking to share your very first post? We have a special forum for bloggers just like you in our weekly First Friday posts.

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  2. Hi there! Can I first say how much I love the community pool!!! I have come to you relating to advice about my latest page, a sort of leaving book idea when someone visits my blog. It doesn’t receive any traffic and no one has said anything on there. What should I do to get it off the ground? Thanks
    https://thecleverowl.wordpress.com/its-over-to-you/
    Also, I’m not to keen on the colour pink as a background. Any suggestions??

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    1. Keep reading other blogs, make comments on them and like. That way other bloggers will get to know you and will want to check out your blog. Also question why you are blogging…if its to get others to read your posts, thats not enough and you may be disappointed. Sometimes Im mighty proud of one of my posts and hardly anyone reads it and other times a simple photo will prompt lots of views. Personally I like muted colors on a blog so that the photos or writing stand out but I actually like the pink on yours. Good luck. 🙂

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    1. Hello and welcome!

      If you’d like some useful tips for setting up your site and getting started, I heartily recommend our (free) email courses at Blogging U.: https://wordpress.com/dailypost/blogging-university/

      They cover a range of topics, and you can complete them at your own pace.

      As for finding other posts to read, click on “Reader” at the top-left side of your screen — that’s where you can browse recommendations, search for topics and keywords that interest you, and even follow other sites you already know about. I hope you enjoy the ride!

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  5. Hi Everyone,
    This month I decided to make it a challenge to write love story snippets. I’ve discovered that my snippets are forming into a larger story. Please feel free to come visit my blog and hopefully be entertained.
    Here is the latest post: http://wp.me/p7OhSP-1aW
    Happy reading!

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