Critique My Blog Please
 

http://ashlynnbrookepics.com/

Super simple, been up for a few months, does 1:600. What do you think I can do to improve it?

great looking blog, very clean design. she's hot and the pics are quality. maybe throw in a few sample vids, flv. otherwise, a great blog :thumbsup

I love her ta-ta's... I would change the theme just a little bit.

uh that's the default wordpress skin

where is the design there that you speak of?

:helpme

Lots of content but no design.

bump . . .

bump....

I would always link the picture(s) in the post to either the gallery or the sponsor, you'll end up referring far more traffic that way. Also, you have way too many tags. Most of those tag pages have the same content and might therefore trigger a duplicate content penalty or filter with Google, our lord and traffic giver most high. Finally, you're over-optimizing the term "Ashlynn Brooke", it appears far too often in the anchor text of the internal links and in the body of the posts. Otherwise, the girl is very hot and, in fact, I believe I will now release some seed. Good luck :thumbsup

Tht's the kind of advice I was looking for. Thank you.

morning bump in hopes of more good advice...

get professional wordpress theme is only $40

exactly...

It's looking nice so far! :)

is it even worth it? what do you do if you got a hundred of these?

that'd be costly =/

If you can't make at least the domain name cost of a blog something is wrong. :winkwink: If you want a shit load of blogs add them a little at a time. If you get a nice payout on some sales take that and grab another 10 domains and put up 10 new blogs. Expand and grow. Reinvest, expand and grow. :2 cents:

I dont think theres anything wrong with the default WP skin...

Behaps put a couple of pics of her up on the blue header?

how can I estimate how much traffic my main keywords would get if they are on top of the serps?

also I'm about to start buying hardlinks but I'm confused as to how to assess whether what someone is offering is worth it or not . . .

There are some great free themes that you can simply create header.jpg images for an replace. Search Cutline, I love that one.

If she has content packs, I would suggest using the innate gallery maker for pictures.

Also, I would alway put in fake comments for each post.

should i post anything specific in the comments?

On the subject of buying links, you need to be extremely careful here. Many people selling links will place your link on sites that are essentially abandoned and will be sinking into the PR toilet at anytime. For example, they might be offering a link on a PR 3 site that they know will end up at PR 1 or 0 in several months because they've already lost most of the linkage to that site, or they have no plans to keep it going.

Also, Our Lord Google absolutely hates link buying and it has worked very hard to develop methods of detecting such activity. Nobody knows for sure how far Google has gotten in this respect, but most agree that you definitely don't want a ton of links to your site appearing overnight.

If you own multiple blogs, one of the best things you can do to build relevant inbound links is to trade with other webmasters through systems like http://thunder-ball.net/Tradegate/. You can do A-B-C trades and get one-way inbound links, which will help you far more than two-way reciprocal links. You need to remember that if you have a blog with plenty of original content on it, you have a valuable asset that you can leverage for links, even if that blog doesn't yet show any PR on the toolbar. You will find plenty of webmasters who can see beyond toolbar PR to the real value of your site and they will be happy to trade with you because they know your sites' PR will eventually rise. By this method, your entire blog network should gradually rise in PR and rankings. Be careful, though, not to produce blogs that are over-optimized (excessive and repetitive use of the same targeted term) because this will turn off a lot of webmasters from trading with you due to concerns of being associated with a spammy site.

Finally, on the issue of themes, I wouldn't worry too much about that right now. Yes, a good theme and design can impress a surfer and make him more likely to bookmark and return, but it's really not worth the trouble and expense unless we're talking about a serious main blog that you plan on updating every single day with high-quality posts for the long term. If you're building a network of many blogs, I would just stay with the default template (which is much more likely to be compatible with future versions of Wordpress than third party themes). If you mess around with the theme files in the default template, you should be able to figure out how to replace the header image with a long picture suited to the particular blog. That's really more than enough, in my view.

Can't thank you enough. You pretty much verified what my intuition was telling me regarding the themes, keyword density, and growing my links organically. I'm deciding between using Linkex and Links Organizer right now for that and I've signed up to Thunderball a few days ago.

Also I'm uncertain of whether submitting and linking to directories is working to my benefit or detriment. I've submitted this and other fairly new blogs to about 50 directories. I've gotten some traffic from it but when I start exchanging links with other webmasters will the fact that I have 50 outbound links to directories hurt my standings?

I personally don't see the utility of blog directories, to be honest. The traffic is minimal and declines steadily, plus your link is usually buried in a sea of links, or worse it falls off to some subpage that has no PR or link pop whatsoever. It's better than nothing, but there are better options. And, yes, the number of outbound links can indeed hurt you when trying to setup a trade. If a webmaster sees that your blog is already linking to a gazillion sites, he knows that his link will get that much less juice from the page. Better to save your link space for high value relevant trades, not the low value reciprocal trades that directories offer. Also, having too many outbound links will hurt your rankings, as search engines will smell a link farm and promptly cut your balls off. Keep total outbound links to between 75 and 100, would be my advice.

Be careful about letting just anybody put their link up on your sites automatically through a script. You're going to get a lot of really crappy and spammy sites that way, which may actually hurt your rankings as well, since Google is known to penalize you if you link to "bad neighborhoods." If you can find a script that allows you to screen the link first, that would be ideal. Generally, try your best to link only to sites that don't have any obvious red flags (like hundreds and hundreds of links and little else, hidden text, redirects or any similarly sneaky shit).

ThunderBall is probably the best place right now to arrange quality relevant trades, though many new people to it complain that their trade requests never get accepted. You should be patient and diligently continue to request reasonable trades, even if you're ignored at the beginning. Sooner or later, you will identify those webmasters who are usually willing to trade with you and, before you know it, you will have a list of quality people you can trade regularly with. Many of these folks have huge site portfolios, so this is quite a resource that is well worth the effort.

ViewFinder giving the fucken house away free!

Can we delete this thread now?

Wow, Viewfinder, props to you man. I don't think I've seen anyone help or dish out that much info in a "biz" thread in quite some time. :) Good to see that.

It's true, I've said too much. Must be the booze. Good luck, Burridge, my man. :thumbsup

lol that's the default wordpress design. but why change it if it converts? (although changing a wp theme back is fucking quick and easy)

What do you guys think converts better when linking from the picutes, linking to the gallery, the tour, or straight to the join page?

looks good.. just change the theme :thumbsup