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   Amandah Blackwell
   Moderator

   Website: Travels and Escapes
   Link: http://www.travelsandescapes.blogspot.com

   What Works:

   1. Clean website -- nice n' bright.
   2. Website is up-to-date.
   3. Nice pictures that make you want to pack a bag and travel.

   What Could Be Better:

   1. I wasn't sure what the focus of the website is. What's the "message" to the readers? Is the website a blog? Is it a picblog? A combination of the two? I wanted to know more.
   2. I wanted to read more content with the pictures; I wanted to know about the places. Did you visit all of these places? If you did, I'd like to know about your experiences.
   3. I wanted to know more about you. I scrolled down and found the About Me which told me a little about you but I was interested in knowing more.
   4. Add more pages at the top such as About Me, Our Mission, Contact, etc...

   Suggestions:

   1. Consider moving the affiliate ad to the bottom on the right hand side or choose a smaller design.
   2. Move the About Me that's on the right hand side of the website to the top (right hand side).
   3. Create an About Me page and other pages.
   4. Move the Blog Archive (right hand side). Perhaps it could go below the About Me or Followers.
   5. Move the Followers that's on the right hand side to the top; perhaps below the About Me if you move About Me.
   6. Consider writing more content with the pictures.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   TravGirl
   Member

   What Works:

   * Very nice theme - professional looking and clean layout
   * Lovely photos and good use of them

   What Could Be Better:

   * The sidebar seems to have some layout issues, it just looks like a few things are out of place
   * It looks like an entire post - photos and all - are on the homepage, which means lots of scrolling
   * The large sidebar ad confused me - not sure what PopTarts has to do with travel, plus it's very distracting because the colors and style of it seem at odds with the rest of your site design.
   * I agree with Rebecca - it would be nice to know more about you beyond just the skimpy Blogger profile
   * I was also left wondering if you'd been to the places that were shown in the photos, and what your experience of those places was.

   Suggestions:

   * Consider a different ad for your sidebar, or several smaller ones
   * Create an About page and have the link below your sidebar profile go to that page instead of the Blogger profile page
   * Consider just having an excerpt of a post, with one photo, on your homepage and let people go to that post to read and see more.
   * YES more content to accompany photos would be great, and would keep people coming back for more.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   Maria Staal
   Member

   What works:
   * Nice clean theme
   * It's clearly a long running blog, with lots of content
   * Great pictures

   What could be better:
   * I know your blog is a blogspot.com blog, so it has less options than a wordpress.org blog. However, your blog still seems a bit empty as many of the normal blog features are missing. For example, a proper about page, contact page, categories, social media icons, re-tweet button etc.
   * Like Rebecca said, it is not clear if you have a photo blog or text blog. What is your niche?
   * The ads in the side bar are a bit confusing.

   Suggestions:
   * Put the blog archive and about me text at the top of your side bar.
   * Add categories and display them in a box in the side bar along with a recent posts box.
   * Add more social media icons.
   * On your blogger profile I clicked on your 'my webpage link' and was redirected to your website. In my eyes your blog and your website could be merged to create one comprehensive and very informative site. Seperatly they both seem to be lacking something.

   Good luck:)

   Posted 1 year ago #

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