Help me improve my blogsite

[xersmith]

Hi guys,

I've created a blogsite Cool Gadgets and Technology and I'm just hoping that this will make some traffic...

If you have any suggestions or constructive criticisms on my blog site, please feel free to reply on this thread.

Thanks.

[rjleaman]

You've picked a really competitive niche, but there's always room for more gadgets... I think it would be good to introduce just a bit of another colour to your blog design, but nothing too bright - that green is fairly aggressive on the eyes. In fact, you might want to look around for a more sophisticated theme - that one is pretty old, and used to be everywhere. It would help a lot to get a more modern look....

Too bad you've started this on Blogspot - it would be much better for a tech-related niche if you were self-hosting your site, preferably on WordPress where you could use a cool magazine style theme... But if you're sticking with Blogger, you really should get yourself a slicker theme. It's a matter of the audience that you're going after. Think about who buys gadgets most - and the kind of look and style that would appeal most to that audience.

It's hard to say much about the content with only three posts up, but I do think you need to have lots of photos of the goods - at least one per post- because right now, the only photos are down below the fold.

Good luck with this!

[xersmith]

Thanks rjleaman, i'll be spending time on the design when I get free...

Any suggestions guys? Waiting for your comments ... Thanks.

[Educator]

Hi Xersmith,

I like the shade of green used in your blog's theme; cool-ly refreshing in the summer.

You might want to have much more content of some type in the right column. It's pretty short right now.

Yes, continue using pictures. I receive about 25% of our site's visitors because they use Google Image search. Remember to give the file name for your pictures something that will be searchable (I didn't initially as I didn't appreciate this could drive traffic to our site).

As well, articles take some time to write, I realize that, but you might want to have at least 4 to 5 paragraphs in every post to give the reader some 'meat on the bone'.

Good luck and I hope this helps,
Dan

[ozanonay]

If you're going to do a product-centric blog, you need to write content that people will want to read. Why would I go back to your blog or subscribe to your feed when there are 1000 blogs who are doing the same thing as you, only better? Find a unique approach or niche, or make it a personal blog, otherwise you'll get buried.

That's the bigger picture. As for low-hanging fruit, you need to change the background color (which is currently a considerable deterrent), get rid of all the ads (which will be worthless for a long time yet) and replace archives (useless) with categories (useful).

Good luck, and happy blogging.