http://www.smoothentrepreneur.com Recently re-design, and I have just automated the articles through the end of August. Site is pretty much on autopilot right now, so I can spend 100% of my time improving the actual site and marketing. Any tips for marketing? Tweaking the design? SEO? Feedback appreciated!
For website speed, if you are on a webhost that can enable compression do it. It will help with your pagespeed score. use the %category%/%postname% pretty links, it will help with your seo. If you want people to write for you and comment for you, install the popular authors/commenters plugin, it will help with their SERPs, so it will help with yours. In your page titles, in all in one seo, add the words advice or articles or something like that. No one searches for just "marketing" but they might for "marketing articles". I know it goes against what most people say for SEO, but I would enable dofollow for your comments. It encourages people to engage with your website. You will have to moderate comments more closely, but I think it is better overall for your community.
design looks good, and same thing that createdevelop mentions: change the permalinks structure. (dashboard > settings > permalinks or something like that I believe) the "become author" page could perhaps give bit more information about the site & the opportunity. I was thinking that you could perhaps add bit more ads without losing any traffic/readers. Not sure if some sort of in-text-link ads could work for your site. Also perhaps some extra banner somewhere (footer?) could do. site looks good, but bit "too clean" to me. perhaps if I'd see author faces instead of dreamstime pics, I'd perhaps be more interested.