Hi I have the blog http://www.ollysguitar.com I post about one time per week but try to make the post helpful and informative. No one really comments on the blog. I am hoping for some advice on how to improve it. I would love to lose the whitespace at the side and almost have a contents menu but have not found a plugin to do this. Some people have commented before that the ads make it a bit cluttered so maybe I should try and change these? Input would be gratefully received.
You have a great niche that you're developing, but when you said your site was about guitars, it wasn't immediately obvious from the design. Perhaps you can make it a guitar-based theme, something that cries out that its about guitars? You want to look at a more visually appealing theme too. Something that has a header graphic might work for you, then you could change the graphic that was more musically related. Here are some lovely themes that can be customised: http://wordpressgallery.com/ I use images near the top of my posts in my Spy blog to make them more interesting. Perhaps change the size of images you include to make them larger and move to the top. Your adverts within posts do clutter the post. Since most westerners read from left to right and down, perhaps have your adverts nearer the bottom of the post when they've finished (or nearly finished) reading the post. Hopefully that's a start to helping you. Dan
Thanks for taking the time to do such a super response. I will look at changing and altering my theme. Love your blog by the way. I'm just delving deeper into it now! really good stuff!
The amount of ads you have is fine. You just need to dress the site up and make it more engaging. Try posting more than once a week too.
Ok thanks a lot for the feedback. I will try posting more than once a week but it takes a good few hours to work a quality post - wish I had more time! I'm sure most of us are the same! Thanks again