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7:58 pm
April 23, 2013
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saverocity
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Hi Guys,
I am pretty new to Blogging, I was wondering, if you might have some time if you would be willing to give me some feedback regarding how my blog seems to you (I am very receptive to negative stuff that I can fix)
My thoughts:
1. I have been writing quite lengthy posts, are they too long or confusing?
2. I have two angles to my blog, Finance and Travel (they are interlinked, but one day you might get finance and the next travel related) will that confuse my demographic?
3. Overall look and feel, does it require additional features, are the ads OK or need adjusting, how is the load time?
My blog is http://saverocity.com and there is another blog within it under http://saverocity.com/travel for our trip reports.
If you would like, I would be happy to reciprocate my feedback on your blog and its features.
Thanks,
Matt from Saverocity
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8:30 am
April 24, 2013
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Brick By Brick Investing
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It might be my browser but I do not see any social media links or RSS feed. Additionally I just added a sitemap to my site. This helps with SEO. As far as the content goes, I like it!
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1:22 pm
April 24, 2013
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saverocity
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Thanks very much – your point about the social sharing motivated me to fix that – since I upgraded to Thesis 2 I hadn't put those on the site. Glad you like the content too.
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9:15 pm
April 24, 2013
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UberSteward
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Here's my assessment on your blog.
- I think first thing you need to do is get a list building subscription on the left sidebar and at the end of your post and at the footer. I heard, there is nothing more important than list building. I'm a new to blogging myself, but that's what I've been reading from all the a-list bloggers.
- Also, faceless blog is very impersonal and i think picture of you and your wife would be very helpful in engaging your readers.
- I can't see the social media links.
- There is a big void on top right, I'm not sure if something should load there, but i didn't see anything and that unbalance look on the site can't be good.
- As for the content, it is good, but it's not scannable and it's hard to follow unless I read it from the top. People want to be able to scan the content and know what it would be about before they can commit to reading the whole thing.
That's about it. I hope that helps. Let me know how I can help you with promoting your blog. My blog is called, http://www.ubersteward.com. If you can take a look and give me some feedback as well, I would be very appreciated. Thanks.
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8:20 am
April 25, 2013
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saverocity
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Great Feedback thank you!
I have been struggling with the faceless blog for sometime. As I have a serious full time job I was worried about crossing the streams…i'm still struggling with that decision.
The social media is up on the first page, but not on the post pages, I can fix that today, thanks.
I did have the subscribe list on the front but moved it, now I have a subscribe link in the menu, I too wonder about about using a left side bar for this… more to consider…
The gap- yeah I am not loving the top part of my screen either, I think I want to adjust it for balance and want to go full width header on it. Thanks.
The scannable text? That one I am not sure how to fix, could you explain your thoughts on that?
Will look at yours too and get back to you with my input.
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8:32 am
April 25, 2013
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saverocity
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Ubersteward:
I like the logo heading and colors, feels fresh and draws me in.
Your about page is blank – at least mine has a Piggie!
Your contact page doesn't list an email, it is blank like the about page. Perhaps an email address would be nice for reader interaction.
How are you segregating content? I noticed things being put inside different menu tabs EG Kiyosaki appearing both in Home and in Personal Finance. I was thinking of doing something like this too as I have a ton of different content that dividing up might help. Are you using a MultiUser Blog for this (blogs within Blogs)? I use this for my site so that the /travel section is its own blog and I link between the two. In doing this for content, is there any risk of penalty for duplicated content, or is it just indexing the same content in different folders.
I would recommend getting at least 5-6 posts in each of those tabs, since TM for example, with only 3 entries looks light – even if a reader doesn't check them all having a full page of potential posts makes it look like there is a ton more content going on here, rather than a young site that is still build depth of content.
Oh and I liked you on Facebook!
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8:36 am
April 25, 2013
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saverocity said:
I have been struggling with the faceless blog for sometime. As I have a serious full time job I was worried about crossing the streams…I'm still struggling with that decision.
I reviewed a web marketing book recently that suggested that cartoon avatars work just as well if not better than actual photos. You could try commissioning a caricature that looks enough like you to build trust, but different enough that you wouldn't be immediately recognizable. Think like the cartoon images of Jay Leno where his chin is half the size of his entire head.
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8:48 am
April 25, 2013
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Post edited 8:48 am – April 25, 2013 by PK @ DQYDJ
On the avatar side – do you think avatars are useful? Our site is three writers (edit: Freud alert – this used to say 'readers') and we all use the generic site logo (haha).
How would you guys play it?
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1:12 pm
April 25, 2013
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Wayne
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Matt, your site is loading as 'mobile responsive' for me. The primary sidebar is a the very bottom, below all of the posts. I use a Surface Pro, but it is a widescreen device (1920 x 1080). This happens in IE10 and Firefox. Besides that, I like the clean look.
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1:57 pm
April 25, 2013
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saverocity
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Thanks very much again guys.
One thing – I just changed my header banner to make it fill up the gap that was showing in the top right… does it seem over powering now? I am wondering if it is too much dark on the eye or if it looks OK?
J wayne – not sure if it was just because I was tinkering with it in the last hour, I tried to go to three column and pushed both to the bottom as they couldn't fit in the page container… hope its better now? Thanks for the comment on the Pen and Paper post too!
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