Mar 12, 2018 / Community Pool

Community Pool

Where WordPress bloggers support each other with feedback and advice.

Note: Starting this week, each Community Pool post will be open for two days. Comments will then be closed until we publish the next Community Pool. Enjoy the swim!

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.
  • No running on the deck.

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    1. Hi, I am pretty much going to say the same thing as I said to potpourri of life… Use tagging… things like postaday and postaweek will pop you in to those popular feeds which people scan through and read things that catch their eye. Also if you want to draw in outside readers you need to use logical tagging which you would search for in google in you were looking for a post like yours (hope that made sense). For example… I write about art, so in the tags I use the artists name, title of the picture, type of art movement etc. This then throws my article up in searches performed by search engines. I notice that you have been using really common words such as agony, which in all honesty will return thousands of results. Try and fine tune your tagging. I can’t say it often enough, there is no secret recipe for growth, just keep writing, keep tagging, interact with the community and you will slowly but surely see some growth. Good luck.

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      1. Woooow! This will really help a lot! Thank you for these suggestions! I will apply them for my next write ups. Thank you! 😆

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    1. Hey! This is the age old quandary for the blogger. Tagging really helps. Use tags like postaday or postaweek and you will see your post in those popular feeds. Also tagging helps search engines find your posts, so use some intelligent keywords to bring outside readers to your blog. There is no secret recipe for getting an increased following except to keep writing and eventually they will come. I am about 8 months in and still working at it, but it’s slowly but surely growing now. It also really depends on if you just want readers, or if you want followers. Just keep at it and you will find people will eventually start to tune in. Also visit other people’s blogs. We as a race are incredibly nosy, therefore if you go and interact with someone’s blog, they will most likely come and visit yours. Finally, interacting with the blogging community will really help, as people will be intrigued to see what you are doing. Comment on others comments, interact with them about their blog.

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    2. I would say the main thing is not to worry about it. Write what you care about and readers will come. Yes, the main way of building a larger readership is to engage with as many bloggers as possible within the community but it’s also important to blog for the right reasons. That was a realisation that I had the other day. You should write posts for yourself and not for your readers!

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  14. Hi 👋

    I’m a personal finance blogger (for almost a year now) and I’m really keen to hear if this post is relevant to you and if you feel the downloadable tool is useful and makes you think about your current financial situation. Does it motivate you to relook at your finances.

    Calculate your Financial Health

    Thanks!

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  17. Greetings my fellow bloggers!

    Do you have an Instagram dedicated to your blog? I just created an account and I am looking forward to diversifying my interactions with other writers. I would love to follow you! Please visit the link below to connect to my Instagram. Follow, leave a comment and I will happily follow you back! Thanks everybody!

    Cheers to Community – TheWrongsIMustWrite

    Cheers to Community

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  20. This past week I chose to write about unity and community. There is a big disconnect in American culture on this topic. We still fight racial prejudice, we struggle to accept others that are different from us, and we look down on those less fortunate than us. I think we need to step up and learn the power of community and unity.

    Better Together

    Thanks for reading and let me know what you think!
    -Joshua Thomas

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    1. hi your blog was refreshing to read, i did follow you to keep connected to your amazing blogs, however, i didn’t see a comment box or i would have commented directly on you page. please do stop by and leave a comment and follow i’m guaranteed you’ll enjoy what you read.

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  24. My name is Cindy. I have terminal cancer. I am 46 and I am dying and I am not quite happy about it. And I’m tired of reading blogs that are all “Oh-blah-blah-blah-everything-is-unicorns-and-rainbows-and-I-have-accepted…” If you are offended easily, don’t read it; it is likely that I sound like an inglorious selfish bastard. But if you want to know what it’s really like to go through this crap, read on…http://theworldofcin.com/2018/03/14/rainbows-and-unicorn-poop

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    2. I read your latest post, and left a comment there, you do not come across as an inglorious selfish b@$tard, you come across as honest.

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  28. No, thank you, Freud, I do not have daddy issues. Much to the contrary, it is my “daddy” who has issues. There are most likely cadres of women brainwashed into believing that the absent father figure has trampled their minds. Issues with their fathers have dictated a cycle of insecurity which is manifesting in their… And so on. While I’m not underestimating the trauma that can occur from abuse or abandonment of a parent, I am calling attention to the notion that such circumstances create a pathology within the child. Many times, I think the internalization of a parent’s mistake is preyed upon by our society.

    Instead, I offer a remedy of self acceptance and compassion. It is not a diagnosis of daddy issues quite necessarily, I have come to find. I am comforted by the indifference I feel toward the stranger who helped bring me into this world. I take refuge in my knowledge that indeed, the apple did fall far from the tree.

    Daddy Issues: A Myth 

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