I have been blogging since september but have not been promoting my blog all that much. I have recently done it up and have set a few goals for the month of Feb. I would be greatfull if you could visit and tell me what you think of the new design and what you think of my goals. Visit it here Thanks Mike
Looks ok. here are a few basic tips: i. change your permalink structure to custom format and something like: %postname% ii. are you using tags? If not, then you should. iii. there is a lot of bumpf on the right hand sided that appears to delay the loading of pages. Are all these things earning you anything? Or making a solid contribution to inbound traffic? If not, reconsider them. iv. you need to think a little more about the title of your posts in reagard of attracting more SE traffic. Remember the title of the post is often what a searcher sees in SE results, and offers a great way to get some relevant keywords in to an H1 tag etc. For example: "Fab Feb Goals" might seem like a nice alliteration, but it is a wasted opportunity in SEO terms as no one will search on those terms. v. do you have a sitemap? I didn't see a reference in your robots.txt. Hope this helps a little...
Quantify your goals. If your goal is to get more traffic and comments then just one more visitor or comment will reach your goal. Set a specific number for new users and comments. Then at the end of the month you can look back and see whether you reached your goal or not. The design is nice and clean but definitely take ThreeGuineaWatch's advice and change the permalink structure.