Hey there I have completed my blog and would like some creative critisism on the idea, design, ad setup, marketing and any other factors. I have only written two posts so far hopefully will do two per week. Im looking to make money from adsense link sales, whoch probably wont be much untill pagerank update, and website reviews/product reviews pertaining to money. I currently have a thread going offering this service here http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=714662 . Any suggesstions would help. I have started submitting every one of my articles to about 20 social bookmarking sites also. Oops forgot url my blog is www.valuableconcepts.com
Well, don't expect to make a lot of money from Adsense right of the bat unless you get tons of visitors. But there are plenty of other ways to make money from blogging besides Adsense. But if I were you, I would probably add a "contact me", "about me", "recent posts", stuff like that so it'll be easy for a visitor to navigate through.
Don't forget the "recent posts", "popular posts" and maybe even "recent comments" because you want people to check out as many pages as they can on EACH visit.
I think the Adsense ads may need some color adjustment. I'm getting a slight eyestrain looking at the very faint green urls of the advertisers. Too jarring. The header needs some sprucing. Otherwise this hardly looks any better than the default Kubrick theme. Try and get a logo up if possible. And one more thing. If you are using the angle of trusted reviewer for the niche of Internet Marketing...you might need to put up your pic. This is a niche that is filled with snake oil men, like you say. A pic helps gain more trust.
Oh, and yes, I agree that you might need a different layout because it does look very plain and in my experience, that tends to turn a lot of people off.
Does anyone know what color the links on the right side of my page are I cant seem to match my adsense with the color. member the site is www.valuableconcepts.com