May 1, 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?

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  5. Hi everyone,

    I would really love to get some feedback on my latest post, which is my entry for the Weekly Photo Challenge. Here it is:

    With you

    Any feedback, suggestions or comments are most welcome. Thanks a lot for your time and have a lovely week ahead.

    -Yuhu!

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    3. I like the humor, but if you can give some advice while being funny, that’d be great too!
      Also, consider adding a read more button as it’ll make your page layout cleaner.
      Happy Blogging!

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  11. Hey everyone. How are you guys doing this week? I recently published a post about embracing change. I’d love to get your opinion on it. I’d also appreciate some feedback on the content published on my blog.

    Thank you in advance and have a great week ahead.

    Embracing Change

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    3. I like that you integrate instagram into your posts. It adds to the grandeur of whatever you are writing about. I also like the theme and colour choice you went with.

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      1. Hey Mark. Thank you for your feedback 🙂 I do my best to add visual elements whenever I can, else just reading texts can get tedious.

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  12. Happy May 1st!
    I’m an ordinary college kid, combining good writing with thoughts about Jesus. I’m looking for a community of other believers to follow who write similarly! Let me know if this is you! (check out my about me page for more)
    Additionally, if you read any of my posts and like or comment, I’ll read one of yours and like or comment as well!

    Let me know what you think about my blog! Always looking for constructive criticism to make it better!
    https://placetorememberblog.wordpress.com/

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      1. It depends upon “how much bad karma account he has made with other souls,” it may take one or more lifetime to settle accounts but once we learn what are the reasons of misshaping with us, we get the acceptance and power to bear that and at the same time we should not make anymore negative or bad karma account in our present with any other soul. We should always forgive and bless others, only then old karmic account will be settled and our new bad karmic account will be stopped. But it is very difficult to always recall this truth and many times our power is not enough to bear the happening, that time we need a higher power i.e. Power of God to be with us, his knowledge of wisdom helps us to settle our all accounts easily and liberate.

        Thank You for asking this question, I would be happy I could become a mean to service of God to some souls.

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      2. Thank you for taking the time to answer my question. It would be difficult to reconcile the existence of karma with a basic notion of fairness, but it is possible for, say, a family member to be called on to answer for another’s debt. I guess transgressions are part of living, even if it’s tough to accept and do what’s right.

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      3. The Law of karma is very subtle to understand, there is a very thin line between wrong or right because something right to one person may not be right for other, Say killing an innocent is a sin but killing at the border to save your country is one’s Dharma(duty). So explaining it in few words will not be a right thing. Yes, it is a part of living but when we understand the subtleness of it, our karma becomes pure and thinking becomes clear. A lot of question arises when we start to learn about it.

        I’ll post more about it soon, hope we’ll be in touch by following each other. Thanks for showing interest.

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      1. Thank you so much for your feedback! I’ll be sure to check yours out soon! Happy Monday to you as well. 🙂

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  19. Hi, everyone, it’s me again! 😁 I’m Nicole, a blogger from the Philippines. My posts these days are mostly about my recent trip to the UK, though I do manage to sneak in food reviews from time to time. I have tons of new content so this month I think I’ll be posting a lot more than my usual norm of 3-4 posts a week.
    Anyway, my latest posts are about my visit to Stonehenge and the famous Westminster Abbey and St. Paul’s Cathedral.
    Do feel free to drop by my blog! ❤
    https://gonicolec.wordpress.com

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  21. I’ve just recently finished my second blog, all about growing up surrounded by water.
    Its a shorter blog as i wish for the photos to try and give a sense of feel and emotion.

    I would be very grateful for feedback.

    Fluid motion

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  25. Hi, Can anyone help?
    I have set my new blog: iamateacherabroad.wordpress.com to “public” but it is not coming up on google and I am not getting any visitors.
    Please can you help me rectify this?

    Thank you

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    1. So I checked out your blog and I have some ideas why you’re not getting visitors from google.
      1) None of your posts have tags. Subject-relevant tags are so important to gaining readership, especially within WordPress! Try tagging your posts with “education,” “teaching,” and “abroad,” and see if that helps. Add whatever others you think might help, but it’s important to keep it below 15 tags and categories since that’s the WP limit for popping up in the reader.
      2) None of your posts have pictures. Not as big a deal, but still something you should consider.
      3) Just keep writing! More content = more visitors. As of now, you only have 3 posts.
      4) Be patient. Your traffic won’t likely boom overnight.

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    2. Hello! Just to reiterate a bit on what the commenter above said, it sometimes takes some time for the search engines to index and show your site in search results — and publishing more and keeping a regular pace definitely helps.

      Like

    1. Poetry can never be “wrong”. All poetry is good because it shows your emotions, it makes you feel something, it helps you get over difficulties… I actually think you did a great job!

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    2. Great short story and a wonderful start to your blog! Some feedback would be to separate your paragraphs a bit more. Welcome to WP!

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    1. I enjoyed reading about your travels.

      I didn’t see a “like” button in your post. You might want to make sure that shows. Also, the first paragraph could have been divided into a few. It’s hard reading one loooooooooooooooong paragraph. That can intimidate people.

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