WAT'S ON THE WEB? (please review)

wazzupweb's picture

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Hi guys, please review my blog. http://wazzup-web.blogspot.com
please be honest. please be true. Thank you so much!! I just want to improve my blog and please help me achieve it. God bless everyone!! Smiling

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Joined: Mar 2009

Took a look. For the most part it has nice content. I would make one suggestion though. The template needs work. I find that when you have so much content of ads it is best to go with three columns. Make the middle column the main body and bring it closer to the top by placing the ads on the left and right of it. You will find that type of template in lots of places... it is found all over because it works.

greg's picture

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The fact your main site navigation (Home etc) is textual makes the Snap ads confusing, as the top of your site has loads of text links.

Personally, I think you have far too many articles on the homepage. In fact it seems like ALL your articles are on the homepage.
In blogs, the homepage should be your most recent ones, most read by visitors, most interesting etc etc.

I hate long scrolling blogs as more often than not they eat my CPU and Bandwidth...in fact it's been loading for over a minute now and still it's doing "something".

Articles with many images or lots of text, like the pavement artist, might be suited to the "MORE" tag (if using wordpress), or alternative that shows a small "snippet" of the full article with a link to read the rest of it. Which also allows you to have a few more articles on the homepage.

Because you don't have many articles in each topic, they seem a bit random topic wise. You have an article "How To Hide Folder Without Using Any Software", and another few regarding IT/Computing, but everything else is a different topic and again with only a few articles - computer games, Twitter, pavement art/graffiti, boxing etc.

There is not one topic with enough content to keep people interested.
I find your site for Boxing or even Pacquiao, or Hatton or even Pacquiao vs Hatton specifically, I have no other Sport or Boxing categories to keep me interested.
You really are limiting your potential audience a great deal by only writing a few articles here and there about various topics.

Another example is someone finds your site from Google search or linked from another website leading to the "hidden folder" article, none of the other articles are related.
I would likely stay and read articles about other Windows related things, "password protected folders" would likely be an article that relates to someone viewing an article about hiding folders.

Sticking to one category or range of category types is often better, and easier.
For example just MS Windows articles - "how to make folders hidden" "what are system folders" "how to clean Windows and make it run faster" etc.

Or, you can mix it up, but you have to have plenty of articles in each category to cater for everyone.
Someone interested in Sport will only stay on your site long enough to read the "pacquiao vs hatton" article.

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Good logical navigation and categories are paramount to letting visitors find their way around. For websites, blogs, forums, office filing etc etc.

Under your "Labels" you have a category for "pacquiao vs hatton", surely that's "Sport" or "Boxing", depending on how many articles you will write for Sport in general or Boxing etc.

So you can have various topics, but navigation and plenty of articles in each is required.
At the moment, navigating around your blog is just random, random articles not in any structured way. Which some people like, but most people prefer to be able to control where they go and what they read, rather than the blogger shoving things in front of for them to read.

The "Labels" seem to be titled almost the same as the article that is in them.
I saw your Label "Highly Recommended" and even though I hate people telling me what's important or is a "must read" as it's down to opinion, I clicked it anyway.
I was confronted with "I Can’t Send Files In Yahoo Messenger (YM)".
Why is that highly recommended? I never had an issue with that, nor do I use it very often, like once a year. So to me that is not even slightly useful or interesting.

Also in this Label is "Visual Task Tips" ... For Windows! I use Linux, so another that is not useful to me.

In fact, 90% of your "Highly Recommended" articles are of no interest or use to me, and also are about anti-viruses, web browser stuff, MS Windows styling.
Surely this should be under "IT, Technology or Computing".

NOTHING should be labelled "Fantastic read" "highly recommended" or "must see" as it's all depending on people's preference and opinion.
Although things like "Most viewed articles" "Highest rated from user votes" etc are acceptable.

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Main reasons people wont find your blog:
There isn't much content for search engines to find you from people typing in searches. When you have hundreds of articles, each with a few hundred words, that's TENS of thousands of keywords and phrases and hundreds of article titles for people to find your site from.

Not much content also means other sites don't have much to link to on your site. A blog with hundreds of articles stands more chance that someone somewhere will want to link to one, not specifically because you have many articles, but because there's more chance you have one they want to link to or is relevant to their website/forum post/blog etc.

Main reasons people wont stay on your blog:
The repetitive music - urgh.
No decent logical navigation that clearly categorises your articles allowing me to find stuff that interests me.
All pages take too long to load.
No where near enough articles to keep people interested and allow them to find something else that interests them specifically.
To many things related to "Twitter" - is this a Twitter site or your personal blog?
Full page ads that take me away from your articles listings (I suspect this is blogspot.com's ads)

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Some articles for you to read: (they're not definitive guides, just some good advice relevant to you)
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/notablog/story/good_blog/

http://www.dailyblogtips.com/one-blog-and-many-topics-or-many-blogs-with...

http://www.dailyblogtips.com/25-lessons-learned-from-failure/

You'd do well to get away from the pre-build services of blogspot.com and get your own domain name and hosting, which can both be found quite cheap these days. About $10 for a domain name and around $5-$6 a month for the hosting.
If you do this it will allow you to learn how to install wordpress and use it and choose your own style and theme, even installing a pre-built one.
After that you can learn and read a few articles on CSS and HTML and even make your own style for your blog.

It might sound daunting, and is a learning curve, but it gives you more control over your blog, content, articles and style.
If you're serious about blogging, it's the way to go.

If you are not serious about it and it's just a place for you to write a few articles a week about a few things that interest you, then it wont get very popular I'm afraid.
Making and maintaining a popular blog, website or forum takes time and effort. With a blog, the main priority is writing as many decent articles you can every day.

wazzupweb's picture

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thanks greg!! I've read all the articles!! and they are all so nice!! thank u!!

wazzupweb's picture

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Greg, can you make a review again of my blog if you have time? Please.... thank you Greg.

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Went to the site, and well before i could read anything some add with a survey or something came up.

I haven't even gotten to look to see if your site is worth putting up with finding where to "click to skip ad", so my instinct is close the browser tab.

I'd really reconsider the ad till your popularity /reputation is way high that people will not mind the ad.

-Greg

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thank you Greg K Smiling

wazzupweb's picture

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THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR REPLIES GUYS!!!! haven't read it all because i'm a bit busy with my projects in school.. i'll try to read all your comments on weekends! Smiling btw, im sorry for the ads in my blog, i'll try to reduce it ok? btw, i really appreciate it!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!! Smiling

kalvisnky's picture

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This definitely needs more work.
work on your template, make it look clean.
everything is just all over the place.
and Change your Banner/header... You can do better than that.

They have: 12 posts

Joined: Mar 2009

Nice Blog. Good place to add the advertisements will get good CTR.I think if you show categories of your posts in right side, That will increase the navigation and will give whole idea about the blog. Rather then that you used all good features like community,Bookmarking buttons etc. good site.

wazzupweb's picture

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Thank you for reviewing my blog! Smiling I'm smiling while I was reading your comment. Because you're the first person here to say that I have a good blog. thanks!!! Smiling My categories are in the sidebar. Didn't you notice? maybe I should change the place. Anyway, thanks for reviewing my blog. Smiling

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