Hey I've had my blog running since May and made it to PR2 at the end of July. I just want to have any opinons...things that are good...things that are bad....is there anything I should change or add? Thanks guys!
Doh! http://www.ozfreestuff.com It's a "freebies" blog, not like a normal blog...but I'd love to know what people think and what could be improved.
Pretty good one and the result already showed if you keep working the better it will grow.Just curious,what traffic stats it has?
Thanks guys, How can I improve my SEO? I have the SEO All-In-One plugin for Wordpress which I use on every post. SEO is one thing I've never been able to fully grasp on how to best implement it. Searching for the main keywords in Google, i'm a long way in...not very good. But on Yahoo I'm 3rd on page 1 for my main keywords. Traffic isn't too bad, but that's where I really need to improve. You can see a rise of traffic on the 25th. this is when I created a MySpace page for the blog (http://www.myspace.com/ozfreestuff). I haven't promoted that anywhere on MySpace as yet, but I plan to get active with that account and see what that does. It's difficult because at the moment it's really aimed at Australian users only...something I think I may need to address, maybe add a US or international freebies section?
Let's see, the first thing, that stroke me was the color scheme. While this is of course something of personal taste, I did not find it appealing at all, for me, there simply is too much contrast in it and you use too many different contrast combinations (white on black, black on white blue on black). Thats not really easy to the eye. The next point would be, that you use to many different elements on the page. There is a rule of thumb of humans being able to handle around seven different objects at a time. Things like that "Links" section for example are expendable. Speaking of which: You got an animated banner in it: Not good. Movement draws attention. In this case you are distracting from your content, which the reader finds annoying when reading articles. There are a couple of other issues, but being the sneaky bastard, I am, I want something in return to tell you (don't worry, won't hurt - much *G*). I am currently working on a project for website reviews and need content. So here's the deal: Go to http://review.onyxbits.de and put your blog up for a review. As a positive side effect, you also get some more opinions and a backlink to address your SEO troubles .
Thanks for that, I appreciate the feedback. I've signed up on your website, just waiting for the confirmation email. I see what you mean about the colours...I was quite new to WP, so I found a half decent theme that I liked and used it....maybe a somewhat cleaner theme is what I need, but I'll wait and see the results after I put it up on your website. Thanks!