Wow!That’s given me a lot to work with …

Comment posted on Blog Audit Friday: Crocodile Dundee in the Making by Jym Tarrant

Wow!

That’s given me a lot to work with Ana and I’d like to say a very big thanks for casting your eye across my blog. This is enormously valuable .

Sometimes putting together a long term project such as a blog or website really needs an outside eye to come in and identify where changes need to be made, it’s easy to get ‘too close’ to your own work to see it for what it is.

Some issues you brought up were ‘on the list’ and are getting sorted (thought I’d dealt with the canonicalization a long time ago!), others are things I hadn’t thought about, or didn’t yet know how to develop and approach.

The niche and keyword advice is very helpful, I think you gave me just the ‘nudge’ I’ve needed for a while… squashed header? yup, fair point… Sub Magnet? technical problems, Anchor text? achhh… I’ve had my head in the sand on that one!

Thanks Ana, and thanks to all the commentators for your wonderful support & suggestions…

Goodonya!

Jym

Jym Tarrant also commented

• Good point… Keeping things more regular may help… It’s not particularly my nature but I’m sure that it would make things a little easier for my readers!

  Thanks for adding that Sheila

• An interesting point…

  You’ve hit the nail on the head Ben, I’m not going for a traditional corporate look… I do agree with Ana that some tweaking to clean things up a bit is in order though.

  In some ways, or should I say for some target markets, a ‘well put together amateur design’ will function better than a professional one. One of my concerns is that the process I have followed is duplicable, and for some, a very slick or corporate looking blog will be a turn off…

  Is it the Red in particular? I like to use colored headings to break up the text, both to make it easier to read and aesthetically appealing. Most of my posts are not actually selling anything!

  Thanks for your feedback,

  Jym

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  Hi Liz, Hi Ana,

  Great to take this matter into such detail. Time invested in really understanding your target market will be rewarded in the long run, I haven’t taken the trouble to go into such depth with my research yet but it’s clearly a job that needs to be done!

  As you pointed out, 10 visitors who are ready to buy are more useful than 100 who just want to have a sniff around.

  I’m a bit suspicious of this Ad Planner tool though. I checked Traffic Generation Cafe again and it told me the visitors were 100% female. I wonder how reliable it really is? Worth looking into further, many of us could really use a tool like this!

  Thanks for this post Liz, and Ana for hosting…

  Jym

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  Ooooo…. Haven’t dipped my toe in that pond yet Ana, but you speak so highly of guest posting as a traffic resource. I’ve certainly enjoyed reading guest posts and met some very good bloggers through their guest posts on yours and other blogs.

  Who knows, one day I may put something forward for your consideration here. If I’m still speaking to you after Friday that is

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  Hi Ana,

  Great to see a round up of to counter some of the sales hype out there.

  I’m particularly interested to see your and Ray’s discussion about MLSP, since I still use it myself. Although I have nothing like the results of the top referrers, I find that it’s definitely worth my while as a system, and I found the training utterly invaluable when first setting myself up online. So I disagree with your verdict on that one…

  Nonetheless I’ve learned to value your opinion so I’ll bear in mind your words on all the above, although I’m a great believer in checking things out for oneself despite the reviews!

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  Very good point! The whole point of blogs to me is the ability to open up discussions, otherwise why not just have a static website?

  As a blogger I tend to reflect the level of participation of commentators - It’s always good to get comments which open up further discussion or questions.

  Engaging and networking is a crucial part of many online businesses, apart form being fun and a good way to meet others with an interest in the same topics, so I’m with you all the way Lisa… ENGAGE!

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  I’ve been thinking about this for a little while already. It almost seems worth having two ‘mirror’ blogs, one for networking - which will have more links spread across low PR sites, and one for SEO which may follow the ‘Nice’ link approach. And then connect the two somehow.

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