Free Blog Consulting – One Time Deal
Dec. 21, 2009
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In trying to improve my blogs community I’ve run exciting contests, offered free links, and now I’m providing you with free blog help.
What I’m offering:
- Free Blog Consulting
- Leave a comment below, with your questions, feedback request or anything.
- I’ll reply to your comment, with as much information and advice I could provide.
- For more info on my service see Blog Building.
Thanks for being a part of my community!
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Do you have any references for making an easy transition from wordpress.com to wordpress.org? (including how to begin make sufficient ad money to pay for hosting)…
Jawaad Ahmad Khan´s last blog post: Suspended YouTube Account?
I would like to know that too! =D
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Well one of the 1st steps to really making your blog known, becoming a serious blogger, and eventually making money blogging is buying a domain name and hosting. I use Godaddy, which costs $10 a year for the domain name (www.ben-lang.com) and $80 a year for hosting, there are other services out there that may be cheaper, such as Hostgator, Hostmonster etc. Consider it an investment, you pay that amount of money to take the next step in blogging and eventually it will pay off. It’s one great investment
I would love to know if you’ve had any experience with a full blog redesign. I’m planning a redesign in the next few months but I’m scared of losing post data or things playing up.
For example when I made the move to my current design from standard wordpress template my RSS feeds reset and showed all my posts again all at once in everyones RSS that was subscribed. Also some of my images in posts failed to show up.
I’d like to avoid these issues in future updates.
It would also be great to work on a redesign while my current site is still online then just ‘click a button’ when I’m ready to make the change over.
Would love to know your experiences/advice!
Cheers,
Sarge | BeginnerBlogger.com
Hi Sarge
I only just completely redesigned my blog about a month ago.
Actually I have a lot of advice with full blog redesign
First of all don’t be scared of losing data, you should backup your blog with ‘WP-DB-Backup’ just in case, but usually posts, plugins, comments etc. will all be transferred to the new blog.
It’s not as easy as a ‘click of a button’ and requires a lot of work. Issues will come up of course, but they can all be fixed. While you are working on it you could use the plugin ‘Maintenance Mode’ so that visitors know that you are working on your blog. If you want to keep up your current design while editing my advice is to work on it live but switch it back after until its done.
I know its difficult redesigning a blog, and many problems are encountered but ultimately it will pay off.
If you need any more help please let me know. Cheers
Hey Ben, can you post an article where you could elaborate on the steps to take when you do a blog redesign?
The more I learn about on-page SEO, the more I realize that my blog has a lot to be improved on. I’m considering redesign, theme change, etc. A post from you who, as you say, had just done a redesign earlier, would be great and would be most appreciated.
James Moralde´s last blog post: Bugs Bunny Poster
Hey,
Thanks for the idea I’ll definitely consider it. If I do, I’ll let you know. Regards
It can be helpful to setup a local server on your computer, and copy over the files and database from your live site, and work on the theme locally with a copy of your site, to test everything that you are using.
That’s what I always do for my projects, including the redesign for my blog (just today, actually
)
Eric B.´s last blog post: Free WordPress Theme: SnapBlog
Well I don’t think I have anything, if there is going to be anything I will contact you definitely!
Awesome idea Benjamin!
Mikkel “DaneBlogger” Juhl´s last blog post: Why You Comment On Other Blogs
Hey, must mean that your blogging is going very well! Let me know if I could help you anytime. Thanks Mikkel!
Well how do your get traffic.
Ed´s last blog post: How To Get Free Prizes
Hi, that’s quite a broad and difficult question to answer. The most help I could offer you is read my post on how to improve your traffic: http://ben-lang.com/how-to-improve-your-blogs-traffic/ or check out other resources that could help you: http://copy-blogger.com/101-links-that-will-help-you-to-drive-more-traffic-to-your-blog
If there’s anything more I could do for you just let me know.
Hi Ben,
I would like some advice in have more interaction, more comments and more targeted traffic to my blog posts.
Thanks in advance:)
Clinton Skakun
Clinton Skakun´s last blog post: Finding Your Blog Niche, Advice from an non-Expert
Hi Clinton,
Community is something I’ve been focusing on for a while now which is why my posts have many comments and are interactive. Some ways that I do that are: offering freebies, contests, CommentLuv, top commentator widget and networking with other bloggers. The more of those you do/have the more active of a community you will have.
Regarding targeted traffic, there’s: Adwords, any type of targeted ad, Twitter could help, forums, blogging networks…
Nice to hear from you Clinton
I don’t have any question, Ben.
All I have to say is that good luck with it
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Shirley´s last blog post: 57 Great And Helpful Posts To Keep Your Mind Afresh And Engaged As A Blogger
Ok thanks for letting me know, I appreciate it! Regards
How do you get mor epeople to comment on a blog and how to get backlinks
Ed´s last blog post: How To Get Free Prizes
Hey thanks for asking another question. Well @ClintonSkakun already asked about comments and interaction above, you should read that if you are interested. Backlinks is still something I’m working on, it comes from: commenting, blogs finding you and adding trackbacks, search engines. Cheers
I want to ask Ben, that what are your link building strategy? I am working hard for building backlink for my blog, so I want to know your strategy.
chandan´s last blog post: Work at home | Freelancing PDF converting job
Thanks for asking. What I focus on is: submitting posts to social networks, commenting on other blogs, trading links with other blogs, participating on forums, and writing search engine friendly posts that way many people could find them when writing articles and link back to me.
Happy Holidays!
No questions for now. But it feels good to see people helping Bloggers in their problems. Keep up the good work!
Tech-Freak Stuff´s last blog post: How can I be so so lucky?
Great, that’s what I’m all about
Happy Holidays!
Meh!meh! (Me! Me!)
Please let me know how I can improve my blog. btw… it’s going to get a huge redesign that’s why post frequency is a bit low.
King Sidharth´s last blog post: Chanting for Beginners
Hey, sure!
1. I love your header,the design is very cool.
2. Your footer has a huge space underneath it with nothing in it… I would recommending adding widgets there if you can or removing the space.
3. The cpmforest ad at the bottom right is a bit too big for the space allotted.
4. Personally, I think you should change the site’s font to something else.
5. If your contemplating a theme redesign, definitely check out WooThemes (they’re the best.)
6. A top commentators widget would be beneficial for you and commentators.
Good luck, please let me know if you need any more help!
Hey Ben – to piggy back off of Sidharth’s comment. I would be interested in hearing your thoughts on my blog: http://www.corylevy.com.
Thanks.
Sure, I’d be happy to. First of all I like your simple design, maybe you should some more color here and there if you can though.
Here are some more things:
plus awesome resume!
1. Your title should probably have more than your name for SEO purposes.
2. Your archives on the sidebar if you can try to move the number up next to the year, it would save space and look nicer.
3. This is your choice, but I’d advice you to remove the meta from the sidebar…
4. Instead you should add a feedburner subscription service to the side, and an rss button.
5. If you are interested I think most blogs use little social media icons, retweet and facebook share buttons instead of the “Share This” button.
6. Nice to see that use Disqus, great commenting service.
7. Your projects page is so impressive! I’d love to hear more about your entrepreneurship career
Nice to meet you Cory, I’d love to chat sometime. If I can help you in any other way let me know. Best regards.
Thanks for your feedback, Ben! I made most of those changes. However, I can’t figure out how to get the social media icons on my (wordpress) blog.
Also, do you have any title suggestions?
Lastly, would love to chat sometime soon. Shoot me an email: cory AT corylevy DOT com.
No problem, to get those social media icons you can use the plugin “sociable” or many others that exist.
For your title I would use “Cory Levy 18 Year Old Entrepreneur” or use something that people would search for on Google and you would want them to find you.
I’ll definitely send you an email. Cheers
how do i make connections with other bloggers like Darren Rowse and Copyblogger.
Plus how do i get more followers on twitter
Ed´s last blog post: Write For Us
Hi Ed,
Great questions, the way I connect with huge bloggers such as Darren Rowse and Copyblogger is by including them in posts such as “Top 10…” and sending them the link. They’ll always appreciate that, and it will give you a chance to connect with them.
Getting more followers on Twitter is definitely not an easy question to answer. They’re are great posts out there that provide superb information such as: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/25/kevin-rose-10-ways-to-increase-your-twitter-followers/ or http://www.doshdosh.com/how-to-get-more-twitter-followers/
Thanks for asking!
Hi ben,
looking foreword to hear your feedback and suggestions on my blog
Uttoran Sen´s last blog post: 2010 Plans – Big Dreams
Hi Uttoran,
I’d be happy to share my feedback and suggestions.
1. I like the simplicity but I think that the church design (crosses) don’t really fit with your blog (technology.) So maybe you should look into a new theme if that interests you.
2. Your title: Cradle of Evolving… You should probably change it to something more search engine friendly like: tech news, technology magazine etc.
3. In your header “Enter 468×60 Banner Code Here” appears instead of an advertisement, no big deal.
4. In your subscribe box personally I don’t think you should have all of the buttons for each service: Google, Yahoo, Netvibes etc. just use one button for all of them.
5. The friends box, maybe you should fill it up a bit more, maybe even add me
6. I’m not a fan of having a meta box on the sidebar, I would say remove it.
7. Nice to see you have a very active community which is always great.
8. On each post I see a “starton” button at the bottom thats not so well placed. I’ve never heard of that service so I would say take it off or place it in a better area.
Looking good! Let me know if I could help you in any more ways.
hi ben, that’s a great review,
i can’t change the theme, i love it
but i did a few changes to it. the magazine type display looked good, atleast to me 
but it had some problems. The categories and posts at the top of the page, no matter how old got comments always, while new posts at the bottom of the category did not received enough comments, so i made this change finally. Now its no longer a category display and is a simple new-posts-at-the-top display, just like any other blog. I took this idea from hellboundbloggers 
The title, is surely not a seo title, though a homepage title would not matter much, i want the search engine visitors reach the inner articles so i use good titles for individual articles, so i would not worry about the homepage title. I like that slogan, the domain means the same too
the header is now fixed, i had removed that in the past but looks like a theme bug that empty header ads box brings back that line… now its removed with the title lol, hehe
removed a few subscription services, rightly pointed out, thanks,
i don’t have a friend box yet, but have the top commentators list and hope to see you there
removed the meta, lol was too lazy to type in the wp-admin so kept it for a one click entry to the admin panel… silly me
thanks, i love my community, and always keep working on it, its what keeps me blogging,
you haven’t heard of starton
hope to see you there 
and will fix the button,
its mine
Uttoran Sen´s last blog post: 2010 Plans – Big Dreams
Hi
Wow I see a lot of smilies
If you like the theme keep it, always the bloggers choice. Yeah there are always certain problems with themes. Glad you fixed most of the things I suggested. I never have heard of starton, very cool that it’s your, I’ll definitely check it out!
Hey Ben excellent website ,n case you do have a chance to help a fellow blogger , i wanted to know what the plugin for retweet button on top of the post is, also if you know any good plugins for “Digg Me”.
I can’t find one that looks nice with a retweet button. =/
Hey
Well I have the perfect plugin for you: Digg Digg. It has different options for retweet, digg, facebook and more buttons. It’s an amazing plugin so check it out.
5 star rated , thanks alot , working on it now.
Your welcome, enjoy! Please feel free to ask more questions
Hey Ben,
Great on this blog. You really care and thats the key to winning in business.
I have just recently started my own blog and i am not technical at all so could you critically analyse my blog please.
Aaron Darko´s last blog post: Why The Rich Get Richer and The Poor Get Poorer
Hi Aaron,
Sure I’d be happy to.
Firstly I really like your theme, looks great, and your logo is nice.
Here are some suggestions though:
1. Your home page should probably be posts not an about page.
2. For right now the Y.E.S ad that you have takes up a lot of unnecessary space since there is nothing to the left of it…
3. Add some more widgets to your footer.
4. Fix your feedburner widget, its a bit messy. Plus you have two email subscribe things, try to combine it into one.
5. Disable Disqus on pages.
6. Add a contact form instead of your email address on your contact page, there are many plugins for that.
Good luck!
Hey Ben,
Thanks for the pointers. Ive done all you said apart from combining the feedburner subscription box with my getresponse subscription box, i dont know how to do that?
Also under ‘Featured Posts’ i cant seem to get little photos to appear next to the summary of the post, any ideas?
Aaron Darko´s last blog post: Why The Rich Get Richer and The Poor Get Poorer
Hey
No problem, I dont think you could combine them but maybe you should just use one of them. I’m not sure it depends on your theme try googling it or post it in the WooThemes forum.
Ben,
What is the best way to get more twitter followers from your blog? What would be the best way to set your blog up for that?
Thanks,
Hi,
I wish it was that simple, thats just such a hard question to answer. The best advice I could give you would be to read this article:
http://www.doshdosh.com/how-to-get-more-twitter-followers/
From there you’ll learn a lot!