Damien
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Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: My new WordPress siteThanks you for the feedback manhthangbds, I do try to post new content regularly; at least on an every other day basis. Unfortunately it doesn’t always go that way, especially if there is something about the article I don’t like. There are featured images where I have about 10 different revisions and or versions simply because I don’t like it enough.
As much as I want to output a high quantity of articles in the fastest manner possible, I value high quality articles over sheer quantity and speed of output.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: My new WordPress site@gravitysailor, thanks for the feedback. I’m glad you like it. After reading your comment, I realized I was grinning from ear to ear somewhat like the cheshire cat.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: My new WordPress siteThanks for the feedback canalnova and blograzzi.
@canalnova, I know the featured image is large than the average, however I like, and it’s half the fun of making the article, so I’m sorry to say it’s not something I’ll be changing.
@blograzzi, when and if I ever get an android I’ll be sure to make some Android related posts.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: My new WordPress siteThanks for the tips blogdips. I’m also checking out some of your articles for more info on sep.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Review my blog!I’d say to many tags, replaces the meta widget with something else. Other than that it looks great and a good source of SEO knowledge. Now I know where to go to learn about SEO.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: My new WordPress siteThank you for the kind words @blogdips. I try very hard to maintain quality, for instance, I’ve already spent over an hour creating my new featured images for a new post I’ll probably put out tomorrow.
As for popularity, my site has been up for just over a month and people have already started to link to it, from forums to putting links to it directly in their blog posts.
I’m new to SEO, however I think it’s doing ok in that department for only being just over a month old.
Backlinking is great, however currently I’m just trying to amass a large amount of posts, possibly 100 (currently 34). People are already making backlinks for me. I’m not sure how to gauge the quality of the back links. If you have more info you’d like to share on the topic of backlinks to help me I’d be very interesting in hearing more.
Thanks again
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: My new WordPress siteThanks for the feedback, I agree that it was to much. I’ve completely re-done the image, defiantly tones things down.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: My new WordPress siteThank you very much for the comments, I value your feedback very highly. It seems you all agree that the featured image is the large. I used to think that, however allow me to explain my thought process on it.
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“I would say is that, the ‘feature image’ of the posts is very large and to me feels a little overwhelming and distracting from the content you are presenting.”
I want the featured image to interest or catch the attention of my viewer. Say you’re browsing around online trying to find a solution to fixing an issue with your iPhone syncing with iTunes. You open 2 links from google, 2 different websites.
The first website is like any other, some low resolution picture copied from google images and some text. Then they land on mine: http://appducate.com/2012/12/troubleshoot-an-ios-device-that-wont-sync-in-itunes/, first thing they see is a unique image I’ve made myself. It catches the eye and makes the user continue on my page while closing out the other articles site.
- “first image gives me sensory overload”
When you first came to my site and saw the images, did you instantly click out of the image or did the image interest you enough that you actually read the title and gave a quick look around?
- “Using a black font is also easier on the eye.”
Hmm… that might be a good idea. Any other feedback on the colour of the text?
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—I removed the excerpt scroller from the top as I just realized its useless and just wastes space.