Blog Reviews

**Spacyjane** · 06-26-2007, 11:25 PM

hi,
I don't seem to be getting much traffic here and would like some input into color scheme, content or anything you can think of. thanks
http://modernabode.com/blog.html

**Vasity** · 06-26-2007, 11:38 PM

For one thing SpaceyJane you will want to use anchor text whenever you put up your website, this is because its not only a bank link but it pushes you up on certain search phrases. Which also increases your traffic. This will be a good help for you as I notice in your signature you don't even have anchor text at all. If you need a little more help on how to make anchor text either look it up on the big G or let me know via msn and I will give you the code thing to do it.

About the content, you might want to add to it. I generally keep the rule 15 pages per site. As this is a good amount and also helps increase your traffic from search engines.

(I have seen the template a lot I am not frankly a fan, but no one ever is lol.)

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**gsmile** · 06-27-2007, 01:54 AM

You do not appear to know much about promoting your site and doing all of that. I suggest you read some of the blogging tips blogs: http://www.neonscent.com is one, http://www.johntp.com is another one.
And one thing you are missing- a good layout/template.

**icyblue** · 06-27-2007, 08:24 AM

I think the most important thing about blog promotion is quality fresh content, you can ask your friends to write for your blog until it gets visited.

**totowapl** · 06-27-2007, 12:06 PM

i like it!

**FalconWebs** · 06-27-2007, 12:36 PM

It looks great, but I don't think that design or content is the problem. I tried it 3 different times on 3 different computers, and every time it loaded only half way. I had to reload it again to view the full blog. I tried it again this morning, and I couldn't even get it to load completely.

I'm not sure what the cause could be. Try checking your code, and adding:

Code:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

Hope it helps

**ADAM Web Design** · 06-27-2007, 12:42 PM

I noticed the same thing FalconWebs did. It looks like there's a counter interfering with things:

Code:

<!-- text below generated by server. PLEASE REMOVE --><!-- Counter/Statistics data collection code --><script language="JavaScript" src="<A href="http://hostingprod.com/js_source/geov2.js"></script><script">http://hostingprod.com/js_source/geov2.js"></script><script language="javascript">geovisit();</script><noscript><img src="http://visit.webhosting.yahoo.com/vi...f?us1182958805" alt="setstats" border="0" width="1" height="1"></noscript>

You should be able to use whatever site stats your host comes with and not need to do something like this.

**user160** · 06-27-2007, 02:36 PM

Keep adding to your content. Maybe try linking posts to other posts to get visitors to read more than one post.

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**VV Associates** · 06-27-2007, 02:45 PM

I like its color but having some space problem?

**Spacyjane** · 06-27-2007, 06:25 PM

OOPS!
I gave you the wrong blog address it should be:

http://www.modernabode.com/blog1.html

**ADAM Web Design** · 06-27-2007, 07:39 PM

Quote:

www.modernabode.com

We couldn't find that page!

The file you are looking for, /blog1.html, cannot be found on this server. Please try a search below, or start from our home page.

That's not it, either.

**kingjacob** · 06-27-2007, 09:25 PM

It looks nice though you probally should link directly to your blog http://modernabode.com/blog1/

Also you need way more related content than you have now, also Id add a related pic in your posts if its possible to draw the readers attention to your text.

**tenub** · 06-28-2007, 02:38 AM

You aren't getting traffic because it's a blog. There's thousands, if not, millions of people now following the "blog tred" and it's actually getting on my nerves.

Design-wise, I do like the header and I feel you've done a good job straying away from the "Wordpress look".

You just need to finish the design, it's actually really incomplete. Like I said, I'm glad you aren't using any premade software, and if you are, it doesn't show. Good job.

**Spacyjane** · 06-28-2007, 10:42 AM

thanks so much for your comments. Now I'm adding my website for review so please advise on it as well.
thanks
spacyjane