
08-26-2008, 07:13 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
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Re: What is wrong with my blog?
There's a few things I noticed, although I have to ask, what is "good traffic" to you? What are you getting now, and what would you like?
- You're on blogspot. I never go back to any blog on free hosting. If they don't care enough to buy a domain, I don't care enough to read it
- You've got too many widgets. It looks to me like you've got 5 different ads on your website, all of which have to load from different servers, and just make it take longer for visitors. That MPire thing, in particular, is terrible, it took forever to load, and locked me from moving around on the page while it did. It needs to go, as should the "recent locations" widget. They're not necessary, and slow down load times too much.
- Your archive is set up poorly. In order to read articles, I more or less have to click once for each post. I'm lazy, and if I can't read at least 5 articles within 2 clicks, I'm not going to read them, and I'm not going care enough to come back.
- It seems your blog is all over the place. Looking at your categories list, I can't find any single niche you would really fall into well, it seems equal parts technology and personal blog. That's generally not a good idea for a beginning blogger/writer. You need to be a very good writer for anyone to want to come back if they can't predict what you're going post.
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