Aug 21, 2017 / Community Pool

Community Pool

Where bloggers come together to give each other 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).

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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.

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.
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  3. Hello Community!!
    I’ve been away in Colombia for the past few days and I’ve been blogging all about my trip! The sights, the attractions, the food, the people! It’s my intro into a section of my blog for traveling!
    You can check out all the posts at https://bearybestblog.com/tag/colombia/
    I hope you enjoy reading about it as much as I enjoyed writing about it!
    Cheers!

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      1. Thank you. I’m glad you liked it 🙂

        And your blog is fascinating. The photos are amazing. It’s like I was standing there myself. Like I was in that place and was looking at the beauty of the moment. I traveled from my bedroom to the sea that I haven’t visited for a long time. So this was a nice experience for me 🙂 Great job! Keep it up 😉

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  5. Hi guys! I have been writing a 3 part series titled “Varun” on an experience that changed my perception about the LGBT in India. Coming from a country where LGBT is a big taboo, my experience with an 8-year-old boy toppled my understanding of the Indian society, LGBT community in India( who are shunned, and discriminated), and the future we leave to the next generation. Do check them out!

    Link to part-1: https://scribblingovercoffee.wordpress.com/2017/07/23/varun-part-1/
    Link to part-2: https://scribblingovercoffee.wordpress.com/2017/08/01/varun-part-2/
    Link to part-3: https://scribblingovercoffee.wordpress.com/2017/08/22/175/

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  6. Hello everyone! I am new here and impatient to get feedbacks for my first blog. I want to communicate with people and want to know how can I make it better. Please do check my first blog and leave comments down!
    Khanrukhsar.wordpress.com

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    1. Your site so far has a clean and easy to navigate layout. Thought I’d recommend adding a header image or a logo to give your blog more visual appeal.
      Also, fill in the About Page with a bit about yourself and your blog and perhaps where you’d like to go with it, this will help readers find out what type of blogger you are.
      As for the widgets, you can either remove or edit the text widget on your site, I’d suggest adding a follow button and when you write more posts, a latest/most popular blog posts widget. This can all be done in the customiser.
      I hope this was useful!!
      Check out my blog https://whenlifeawakens.wordpress.com/

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  12. Hello everyone,

    Here’s my first attempt in writing fiction which is way out of my league but I loved the challenge.

    Survival

    Do read if Interested and nope not gonna ask you to follow me 🙂

    PS – I would love if anyone could recommend me blogs on history and financial investment.

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  14. This is my first time coming to the community pool and to be honest, I’m not sure what I’m doing with blogging. Not in design, or optimizing it to get visitors and feedback, how to get links to share, how to make posts on separate pages, or even what questions to ask. I don’t know what I don’t know. This seemed to be a good place to try and clear up some of the fog. with that in mind, should you have any suggestions, I’m all ears. But in any case, here’s my blog:

    http://www.winkblinknodblog.com

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    1. Your blog has a nice layout, it’s easy to navigate and has a clean look. Thought your About Page is a little unconventional in that it’s longer than most, it’s still really captivating and interesting, if you add more visual appeal, I’d suggest adding an image to it.

      In terms of your posts, you have a good writing style and I like that you accompany the text with lots of images, it brings the posts alive.

      Since you have quite a few posts you can split them into categories and have these linked in the Menu at the top. I’d also suggest adding categories to your posts and adding tags as well, this will help your posts be found in the WordPress Reader.

      In terms of widgets at the bottom of the page, I’d suggest adding in a follow button and perhaps some social media links.

      If you want to increase blog traffic and earn more visitors I have a blog post with tips & tricks on how to achieve this https://whenlifeawakens.wordpress.com/2017/08/19/100-followers-blogging-tips-tricks-beaboss-series/

      I hope this was useful!!
      Check out my blog https://whenlifeawakens.wordpress.com/

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  16. Hi everyone! I’m Nicole, a blogger from the Philippines!
    I’ve been a bit busy with real life stuff so haven’t been posting that much these days. Anyway, for this week, I’ve posted about my visit to Hokkaido, particularly to the really beautiful flower gardens of Shikisai-no-Oka! Last week, I was able to post several foodie reviews of some of the restaurants that I was able to try during my family’s trip to the UK as well.
    Feel free to check my blog out and I hope you all have a good day! 😀
    https://gonicolec.wordpress.com

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  19. Hello Blogging addicts,

    Checkout my latest post on “Islamic methodologies made easy.”
    In it I’ve responded to one of the most frequently repeated verses by Islam haters.
    I hope you find it enlightening and worthy.

    Verse 5:51 Unfurled

    Your feedback is always beneficent and appreciated,
    Thanks.

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      1. Thanks. Your feedback really encouraged me a lot. It seems to me that most writing inspiration comes in the most depressing time.
        I’m going through a great loss in life, it hurts. But I’ll continue to write, for sure. Thanks again. Have a nice day friend ❤

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  24. I am a lifestyle blogger and i chose this niche because I did not want to be limited in what I can write about. However, now i am afraid I am going to broad and it makes my blog seem like it does not have a purpose. My theme is daily tips for those living on a budget but still want to be healthy. Does my blog convey this or is it too random? adkinsdomain.com

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    1. I feel like the posts you’ve written about aren’t too broad at all, as you’ve already mentioned being a lifestyle blogger means you’re not limited so there’s a huge variety of topics you can write about. If you want to be a little more organised you could categorise the posts and use a widget or a menu to display these categories.
      As long as you’re writing with a passion and that’s visible in your writing style, don’t worry too much about breaking out of your niche. As long as you’re not writing a bunch of lifestyle posts that don’t mean much to you.
      I hope this was useful!!

      Check out my blog https://whenlifeawakens.wordpress.com/

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    4. Wonderful poems and powerful write-ups. Really love your recent write-ups, they are really insightful and original. Your poems are really beautiful too. Hope to see more from you. Have hope, write on!

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    3. Wonderful blog! Loving the style of your writing, it is very insightful. Really love the way that you incorporate various elements into your writings. Hope to see more from you. Have hope, write on!

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  28. Hi guys! I did a collab with my favorite nail spa in the city I live it. They are really amazing and starting to franchise out! This is one of my first “reviews”/posts about a local company (besides the post right before this one on House as Field…feel free to check that one out too!). Would love to get everyone’s thoughts on how I went about it. Was there something I left out that you would have liked to read about? Something you liked particularly about this post? Thanks all!!

    http://sandystilettos.com/paintbase-raleigh-nail-salon/

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    1. Wow… Breath taking blog! Really love the crisp and white, minimalistic style of your blog, although your font is quite small but it compliments the style of your blog. Hope to see more from you. Have hope, write on!

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    2. Wonderful… I am utterly speechless by your post, it is simply magnificent. After reading through that long piece of writing, I really love the expressive way of your writing. Hope to see more from you. Have hope, write on!

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    3. Welcome to the blogging community! Congratulation on picking up the courage to blog. Try to be expressive about yourself on your blog, and please do write something on your blog, it is empty, haha. Hope to see more from you. Have hope, write on!

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