Tim,Good question. But I won’t be skeptical …

Comment posted on Blog Post Promotion: Increase Your Blog Popularity Like the Pros Do by Jane@Blogging Tips

Tim,

Good question. But I won’t be skeptical about this because Ana is endorsing it. Ana normally doesn’t recommend unless it is useful and outstanding.

Jane.

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  I very much agree with your point on not to sell in emails. The emails should provide only value and increase your authority, expertise and accessiblity to people.

  Emails should also be more friendly. Instead of just talking about the subject a couple of sentences on the top with some personal tint works great for me. Such emails convert more clicks and actions.

  Thanks Robert for the great piece.

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  The praises:

  1. The one of your kind you are. Hence is your content. No one can beat you. You don’t offer bullshit. You offer original, useful and applicable content.

  2. When I come to your blog as a stranger for the first time, I know what I can get from it. You clearly spell it out.

  3. Blue and red welcomes me and makes me warm and tells to me that you are warm too. But I know TGC is not for the cool guys (I know I am neither praising nor criticizing you ).

  4. You give a lot of link and keyword luv. I don’t know may be that is why you are still at PR0. But that doesn’t matter. You are being loved by real people; never mind the stats.

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  1. As many have pointed out the social icons could go up. Even though you don’t have much space over the fold, I would suggest the top-right corner (above your big coffee cup) of your header to have those 4 coffee cups in small size (may be 32X32).

  2. The FB like box is now causing a bit of clutter to your sidebar, which used to be cleaner before. Do you really need it?

  3. Please please for God’s sake don’t change your sidebar to the right. I know you won’t.

  4. Your navigation bar is dull and doesn’t grab attention. Might try and different color background and some font change.

  5. You could put your contributor badges at the footer below your “About Ana” stuff. Again this makes little bit cluttering at the sidebar.

  As you see, I mainly comment on the design aspects. The stats, I wouldn’t talk about them. You have great numbers.

  Hope I have helped you a bit, if not to a great extent.

  PS: I was just wondering while using websitegrader.com (thanks to Lisa). I see that both of our blogs rate almost the same in terms of the grade (given that your blog is about 1.5 months elder than mine ). The two big differences are the number of sites linking and the number of pages crawled by Google. But could never figure out what makes these differences!

  Jane.

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