Blog Review
First Impressions
The first thing I noticed when visiting your blog is how clean your design is. A design can be a make or break point for a guest, if they don't like the design they may leave the site instantly but no one should be doing that when visiting your blog. I also noticed how everything is split up into different categories on your home page, this makes for easier and quicker browsing and if a guest wants to read articles from a specific category all he/she has to do is scroll down. The only thing when it comes to appearance that I didn't like after a quick sweep of the front page was the subscribe box. You need to add a border to the email address row and the subscribe button would look better on the right hand side of where the email goes, it just looks a bit out of place currently. You have two contact and about links on the front page, you only really need one so maybe change the links on the footer to something else. I also noticed on the side bar one of them says Meta when it's more of a login and rss box? Maybe you could change the title of that. The article 'facebook makes changes to it's messengers' appears four times, twice in the same box, maybe you could try and make it so it doesn't show so many times. It's a bit annoying seeing the same article so many times. I'd like to be able to read parts of as many articles as possible on the front page not the same one multiple times. So overall my first impressions of your blog were mainly positive with some suggestions for minor improvements, you definitely make me want to read on and not close the tab.
(Score: 19/20)
Appearance
Like I said in first impressions the design is very clean, also it's pretty simple and not to complicated which makes it really easy to navigate your blog which I like. The colour scheme is good as well, not to many colours, just a few colours. The design is nice and bright but doesn't hurt my eyes which is good, there is nothing worse than a bright theme that hurts your eyes. At further inspection when hovering over the article titles they change colour which is nice and the social lighten when I hover over them, very nice little touches to the design that make it so good. The navigation buttons have a inner glow when hovered over, lots of glowing things, it could get slightly annoying for some people but personally I like it. The advertisement doesn't stick out to bad and isn't an eyesore, this is important because advertisements that stuck out to much can turn someone away from your blog. Everything seems to glow when I hover over it actually. The navigation bar at the very top looks alright but you don't notice it at first so maybe you could make it stick out more. I do feel the three navigation buttons on the footer feel out of place, I would suggest removing them and putting the link to the sitemap at the top and in it's place move the copyright info there and have it in it's own table. It would also look better if the tables on the front page were in level with each other some of the stick further down than others. This could be done by reducing or increasing the whitespace to make them level out. Finally maybe it would be a good idea adding an icon to the logo as a symbol in which people can recognize your blog. Overall the design is very good with it's simplicity,colour scheme,glowing things and cleanness, you just need to tweak it a bit and it will be perfect.
(Score: 19/20)
Content
On to content well first things first there's a lot of it, you blog like a mad man which has it's pro's and con's. Pros, it means there's always fresh content for guests to read and comment on which means they should keep coming back to see what's new. Cons, it may be a bit overwhelming for returning visitors and they will only be able to comment on some of them. A lot of articles you write are bery short which seems un blog like and fit's a forum more, you really should write more, add your opinion to the articles, give people something to read. Not something just to glance over. You should also try and write some content which isn't just your adaptation of what someone else has wrote. Make totally unique articles, maybe a guide to using a certain phone or a game guide. Something that's 100% unique and yours as people could say, why don't I just visit another blog I'll get the same information. Your blog posts are very informative though and tell me what I want to know in as few words as possible. Also if needs be you provide links to things that are related to the article like for example the checker for the FBI pulling the plug article which is very useful for the reader. Also in some of your articles you link back to the source you got it from which is better than some people who would just say it was there's even when it wasn't. A lot of the titles grab my attention, they make we want to read what's inside the article which is really good as it means people will read the article. I suggest that you blog lest and write more, in other words make less articles but the articles you do write make them longer and include your own opinion to make the article more unique.
(Score: 35/40)
Comments
When it comes to comments it's slightly worrying you have less comments than you have articles, you should at least try and get one comment per article so why not request a blog package and do exchanges here at forum promotion or try other methods to get more comments as they are vital to your blogs success. You could even try posting yourself under different usernames, it would give a boost to the amount of comments there are. The comments that have been made are of a high quality and a re related to the articles and aren't just spam bots. You also seem to have a few returning commentors which is a good sign. I do think you yourself could get involved in commenting by replying to other peoples comments. You need to focus on getting comments to be honest or else your blog won't get to far, like I said before try every method you can find to get comments. If you get a few hundred comments more you should start seeing comments been made without trying to get them. Try and get your comment to article ratio at least 1:1. The commentors appear to have good spelling and grammar which is good so I have no complaints about the comments, just that you need a lot more of them. So overall, you need to work on getting more comments of the same standard your current comments are.
(Score: 12/20)
Total Score
85/100
Final Remarks
If you work on making longer and more unique articles and if you work on getting more comments you have a big chance of seeing your blog with a score in the nineties next time. It's a very good blog with massive potential just needs a few things changing. Best of luck!
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