Would you critique my blog please?

When I first went to your site the first thing that I noiticed was the titel of a post telling me that a certain individual is "bad for me". Personally I do not like negative messages and it sort of turns me off. At the top right it says I should enter my email address but gives no information as to why I should do that. Some type of good value incentive is needed.
I do like the pictures that accompany each post - nice job on selecting those.

Those are my initial impressions.

I have done some work myself in this niche (2 sites and a kindle book) and it is very competitive and you do need to target a sub-niche. ie - the bobybuilding audience may not overlap with the weight loss audience in a lot of cases.

• Remove the billboard from the header.
• Add a call-to-action above the fold.

At first, I would not use Adsense... until the blog is very established. It can be a bit of a turnoff to new readers. Concentrate on building up your email list. As far as your bait piece, I would have a better headline, something that draws you in to actually putting in your email. Maybe, "Free Guide Show You How To Lose 23 Pounds In One Month" etc.

Honest, objective critique:

1. The banner is awkward. The woman's arm is going across the guy's chest in a very strange way. It doesn't help that the image is cut at that point. The text looks faded, and the black around the letters looks raster instead of vector—as if the image has been resized a lot. I would get another image and then have someone do the lettering in Illustrator. Output -> "Save for Web."

2. Your keyword density in the Mike Chang article is too high. Write for human readers. No one wants to read "Mike Chang" over and over. Keyword stuffing really hurts the odds that a human reader will share your work, and it won't do too much for your rank these days, either.

See the above. This is a sticky sentence. It's hard for human readers to digest. Just use "people" and you can eliminate 6 words. People have the attention span of a gnat online, so keep em' moving.

3. Run-on sentence. You have two ideas here, so just go ahead and break it down into two sentences. When you put two disparate ideas into one sentence you really break the reader's flow. They have to pause and re-read.

Also, you have redundancies that are blowing your word count up. You can just say "buy" instead of "make a purchase." So on the one hand, you're using your keyword an awful lot, and on the other, you are diluting your keyword by using unnecessary words.

Same thing. Just say, "The notion of an...."



The rest of the homepage looks good, and I like the amount of content you have on display.

well the mike chang thing made me laugh

I think the blog roll is too large and spread out, I'd consider doing smaller thumbnails for sure

The top banner is too big. When I enter blogs like this, I don't know what to do so I generally just click off.