Please Review: Blogflare.com

Discussion in 'Websites' started by scottmweaver, Feb 19, 2009.

  1. #1
    http://www.blogflare.com

    This is Blogflare 2.0.

    I wish I could show you Blogflare 1.0, but it was glorious (mostly). The way in which it sucked was that it updated once per hour and did so tremendously slowly. It was so slow that the host shut it down for putting the server load to 20 (whatever that means. ;)), so it died for about six months while I did some other things for a while.

    Blogflare 2.0 comes with an update every five (5) minutes and so, can handle a ton more blogs now. This may seem counter-intuitive but it works. I decided to rebuild it about four days ago, so here's what I have so far.

    This is also a new design, still in the process of being updated. I plan on putting either advertising on the blank space on the top green bar or perhaps a login box, I haven't decided which.

    The Blogflare 1.0 site was a PR5 and the technology section was a PR6, so when it got shut down, I was pretty sure the blogs linking back to it would stop doing so. Well, they didn't and so the site has over 80 blogs with PR1 - PR6 pointing back at it. What I didn't realize was that upon pointing the old links to the new, functioning ones was that Google would see it as an immediate spike in backlinks, thus sandboxing me immediately. I'm sure this is only temporary but my hundreds of backlinks are currently missing from Google.

    Anyway, I just wanted to get the opinions of the fine people of Digital Point on this site.

    Let me know!

    Scott
     
    scottmweaver, Feb 19, 2009 IP
  2. capsis

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    #2
    need to spice up the design. IMO
     
    capsis, Feb 19, 2009 IP
  3. scottmweaver

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    #3
    How? Chilli peppers?

    Got any ideas?
     
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    Someone said it could use something on the main home page, so thanks for that. Anyone else?
     
    scottmweaver, Feb 20, 2009 IP
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    #5
    It's far too boring.

    Content wise looks alright but you've got no images or anything.

    Spice it up like the other guy said.
     
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    Hmm, I think that might be a problem because I think I'm attracted to "boring" websites.

    So what would spice this bad boy up? One example, please. :]
     
    scottmweaver, Feb 20, 2009 IP