Hi! I will give you a free blog review. I used the template from FP's review section. Note i took out two of the review parts. So this review is upon 60 not 100.
ENJOY! :great:
Appearance and Style - (Out of 20)
When i first visited your blog "Andy's Surviving" i saw a mainly white theme, which had a blue background. The second thing that caught my eyes, was your blog's banner. I think its really nice and colorful. Than i slowly looked at your blog posts and the widgets around the sidebars of your blog. I will talk to you about this later on. But now, i would like to continue with you on the style of your blog. I think you have to get a different blog style because your current style is way too white, which i don't like. Its like 90% white, with 10% blue background. I don't really like it. The overall appearance doesn't seem quite nice or tempting and can drive users off immediately. I suggest you go for colorful bright colors for your blog. That way, it will be a much more happy environment
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(Scored 9/20)
Blog Layout and Categorization - (Out of 20)
And than, i slowly explored your blog...forgetting about your blog's style, i can imagine your blog with a very nice style, together with its current layout. Not bad. I like colorful image at the right of the sidebar, as it brings some colors to your blog, when its so white everywhere :roll: . However, some suggestions. I don't see why 2 sidebars is needed. I rather you just have 1 and ditch the other. It will also be good if you add borders to every widget. I can see only some widgets with a border, like the search bar. Since your current blog style is white, i suggest having the border color set to something dark. Now to talk to you about your blog widgets...i think you have a lot of them and you can ditch some that are pointless. For example, the colorful image, it brings color to your blog, but i don't see the point. Unless its something to do with your blog's banner? But i doubt so. Also, you can save some space by decreasing the size of the feedburner box. Its basic HTML. Maybe you can delete the "Delivered by FeedBurner" part. (if it doesn't break their rules of course). Just think of ways to make more space for the blog
😉. You don't want readers to see your page so long right?
(Scored 11/20)
Commenting Activity and Other Interactions - (Out of 20)
So i continued exploring your blog. But now, on the readers activity on your blog. I can see that your blog has 10 blog posts per page right? I slowly scanned through the first page, and found that the only number i could see was 0. This is very bad. Out of 10 blog posts you have made, none of them received comments. Not even 1. I must say, this will look very, very bad on your blog. The least you could do, is to disable comments on your blog? Its surprising. 0 comments made. I saw some topics on FP buying blog comments. I think you should also make one and buy some blog comments. Your blog's activity seems to be really bad. I also saw that only 5 readers have subscribed to your blog (Feedburner). Which i personally found bad. I was thinking somewhere near 10-20. But that's my opinion anyway.
(Scored 1/20)
Total Score - (21 Out of 60)
Final Remarks:
What was most liked about the blog:
That the banner was really nice and professional.
What was disliked most about the blog:
The blog's style and colors.
How could I get you (The Reviewer) to read my blog?
Improve on the style, get more activity up
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Hope you enjoyed my review
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