Help with my very first blog

laurencewins

9 years ago

I commend you for your tribute to Philip Hughes. RIP.

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Jack107 9 years ago

Originally Posted by laurencewins

I commend you for your tribute to Philip Hughes. RIP.

Thought it was the only way to finish off my first blog post. RIP
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O0o0O

9 years ago

Looks like a great article, and I really liked the sponsored ads at the bottom. Perhaps you can try linking some of your words in the articles to Amazon products.

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Jack107 9 years ago

Originally Posted by O0o0O

Looks like a great article, and I really liked the sponsored ads at the bottom. Perhaps you can try linking some of your words in the articles to Amazon products.

Thanks for the quick reply. Well it's funny cause I can't see the sponsored adds on my site, for me it looks like they aren't working. Also how do you link words?
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mikeac

9 years ago

Good for you for taking that first step and getting your blog launched! Most people don't even do that!

I would add give your subscribers some sort of "freebie" for opting into your list. Like an Ebook on "How to become a better Cricket Player" or something of that sorts

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Jack107

9 years ago

Originally Posted by coolmike

Good for you for taking that first step and getting your blog launched! Most people don't even do that!

I would add give your subscribers some sort of "freebie" for opting into your list. Like an Ebook on "How to become a better Cricket Player" or something of that sorts

That is a fantastic idea. How the hell would i do that haha. I'm sure ebooks are not hard to make but how would they get it?

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news2cash

9 years ago

Originally Posted by coolmike

Good for you for taking that first step and getting your blog launched! Most people don't even do that!

I would add give your subscribers some sort of "freebie" for opting into your list. Like an Ebook on "How to become a better Cricket Player" or something of that sorts

Fully Agree!

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Jack107 9 years ago

Originally Posted by news2cash

Fully Agree!

Just added that in today! Wrote an ebook on how to become a better cricketer and it is sent to people when they subscribe!
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BrianJM85

9 years ago

In regards to the design, it would be nice if the background remained fixed.

http://css-tricks.com/perfect-full-p...kground-image/

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Jack107 9 years ago

Originally Posted by BrianJM85

In regards to the design, it would be nice if the background remained fixed.

http://css-tricks.com/perfect-full-p...kground-image/

Thanks, I will try and implement that into the site, I just put my second article up! Hope it is okay!
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khansaccounts

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Jack107

Hi and firstly hello to everyone on the forum.

This is my first post. Quick background information, I have wanted to start a blog for ages but never did until yesterday I said stuff it i'm gonna pay the money and do it.

This is the very first time I have done ANYTHING like this so I'm looking for some advice about where to go from here and also what improvements you would recommend with the blog.

It's a cricket niche because I love cricket and writing about it! So if it isn't successful at least I had fun doing the writing.

The site is Cricket Chump | For all you chumps who love your cricket!

Don't hold back, it's my first time and i really don't know what the hell i'm doing so all feedback is good.

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i visited your site and have some suggestions to make it better

site theme is not according to your niche
change font for your content and headings

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gladiatort

9 years ago

Hi, these are my few points after quick look at your website.

Remove the picture as the background, or, at least, cut out the middle part of this image where our main body content is, because you actually don't see the picture there, but browser still loads that part of image and it takes time.

Change font color to black, now its hard to read the text.

If you remove background image, you can use free space in header to implement that same image.

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Joe Ray

9 years ago

I think your blog looks very good for a fist website. It's responsive which is great!

One suggestion: place copyright info on the bottom of the pages

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Jack107

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Joe Ray

I think your blog looks very good for a fist website. It's responsive which is great!

One suggestion: place copyright info on the bottom of the pages

Thanks joe, is there any specific way or do i ad to each post at the bottom all content is owned by blah blah?

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Jack107 9 years ago

Does anyone want to be my trial and subscribe to my site and let me know how the overall experience is and how i could make it better!
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Joe Ray

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Jack107

Thanks joe, is there any specific way or do i ad to each post at the bottom all content is owned by blah blah?

This is what I usually place in the footer on my sites which is displayed on all pages:

Copyright © 2014My Company Name Ltd.
or
Copyright © 2014 www.mysite.com

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Joe Ray

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Joe Ray

This is what I usually place in the footer on my sites which is displayed on all pages:

Copyright © 2014My Company Name Ltd.
or
Copyright © 2014 www.mysite.com

Wow, I just noticed that actually there is a site on the example URL I put in my last reply.

Of course, I have nothing to do with that site, I just meant say that you should place your company or domain name in the copyright notice in the footer.

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Jack107

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Joe Ray

Wow, I just noticed that actually there is a site on the example URL I put in my last reply.

Of course, I have nothing to do with that site, I just meant say that you should place your company or domain name in the copyright notice in the footer.

Haha all good! I understood what you meant

thanks for the help!

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besters

9 years ago

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Jack107

9 years ago

Originally Posted by besters

Hi,

First impressions were good, very good. You have Facebook and Twitter social media icons plus you have an optin to build a list of raving fans, aka subscribers!

Personally, I wasn't annoyed by the header graphic, like the other guy was complaining about - unless it's already gone of course as I don't know what he's talking about.

Is this a WordPress site?

When writing your articles, are you using a keyword research tool so as to get ranked higher in the search engines and hence build a bigger list in less time?

I use a tool called Jaaxy as it is so simple to use - you can read an article about over on my Keyword Research page on my scamboxer.com site.

Hope this helps and all the best!

Yes is word press!

I literally just changed the page then. I'm happy with how the design looks now so I'm gonna leave it at that for now

I just started using key word and trying to learn about seo, etc. my next article I will really try and utilise it. It still confuses me a little bit haha. I will read your article, I'm sure it will help me! Thanks for the feedback, im glad people like my site!

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Spring Pham

9 years ago

Cool site, are you using SumoApp for the popup subscribe box?

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Jack107

9 years ago

Nah got some plugin called aweber. It's pretty handy to use! If I can use it anyone can haha!

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balloondrop

9 years ago

I would recommend you start ranking first before implementing ads and all.

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Jack107 9 years ago

Originally Posted by balloondrop

I would recommend you start ranking first before implementing ads and all.

Do you mean ranking in search engines or.....? Sorry what is ranking?
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Jack107

9 years ago

Does anyone have any tips on how to market and get traffic to my site. I feel like I'm flogging social media to death. There must be more options

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Hemanthmalli

Banned 9 years ago

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herbie9

9 years ago

You should try another theme. WordPress is the CMS of beautiful themes.

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Jack107

9 years ago

Any you can suggest for a sport theme page! I'm pretty happy with it now but if there are cleaner and better themes out there is love to know. Only looking at free ones at this stage.

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