Mar 27, 2017 / Community Pool

Community Pool

Where bloggers come for friendly feedback and advice.

Have you just published a new post and are dying for some feedback? Are you redesigning your blog and could use some layout or design advice from your more seasoned peers?

The Community Pool is for peer feedback and advice. Looking for more specific information? Check out some of these resources:

Tap into the wisdom of The Daily Post blogging community and leave your question here in the comments. Others can then click through and offer input either on your site, or in the comments here (feel free to indicate which you’d prefer).

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  • While you’re not required to, we encourage everyone who requests feedback to also reply to at least one or two other bloggers who need some help. Spread the love!
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  • If you haven’t looked at our Commenting Guidelines in a while, now might be a good time.
  • No running on the deck.

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  3. I’d like to invite everyone to stop by and check out my poem of the week, “Jasmine Perfume.” The poem is inspired by the waiting for the true spring, and the One Thousand and One Nights/Arabian Nights. I’m quite pleased with it, and hope you enjoy just as much. Comments and feedback are always welcome, and please leave them in the comments section of the post page as well, and click the like button on the post page. If you like what you see, feel free to browse around, and follow along so you don’t miss anything as I post several times a week. Thanks in advance.
    Drew

    Jasmine Perfume

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    1. I liked your poem but I thought the title could’ve been something else. The present one is good as well. Keep up the good work 😊

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    1. It depends on the crime. If I think it’s a true crime – some truly shitty thing they did – then are they really your friend? Do you want to be friends with someone who does shitty things that are bad enough to go to prison for? And if they let you go down for it are they really your friend?

      Naaaah.

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    2. I’ve always hated the word snitch. It just sounds gross when you say it. My answer to your question though, now, is no. I will not go to jail for a crime I did not commit. If that means “snitching” on the person who truly did the crime, then yeup, it is what it is. They shouldn’t have done it in the first place. Oddly enough, when I was 18, I DID go to jail for the crime someone else committed and I refused to “snitch” on them. That’s a choice that haunts me to this day. But when you are young, you do stupid things! Learned my lesson.

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  6. Hello everyone! So I am co-running a project with Matt @ The Album (another Pool frequenter) called the Online Movie Swap, and it’s a free, easy, and fun little idea that is great for bloggers, so if you like watching movies, check out my post with details and please join in! 🙂

    Join The Online Movie Swap

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    2. I just checked out your blog. I’m a newbie blogger as well but I saw that many portions of your blog’s layout are just empty. If people find your content interesting but your blog display discouraging they will be forced to dislike your blog.

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      4. Update your about page because viewers mostly go there and it’s practically empty. Also add some widgets to your side bar. Maybe a link to your previous posts, a small introduction of yourself, a quote you preach etc., {why am I being so bossy I just started a couple of days ago 😋}

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  10. Hello community poolers!!

    I have a rather difficult relationship with my mother, but it was Mother’s Day yesterday so I bit back on certain things that I might have said and wrote this instead:

    https://t.co/bu42Crj4nP

    Happy belated Mother’s Day to all of you who are mothers! I hope you had a lovely Sunday full of relaxation and your favourite things.

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  12. Hi everyone, dying for some feedback. please read. Do I think of this alone ? My bible laughed; while the toilet talked —https://livingghosts.wordpress.com/2017/03/26/my-bible-laughed-while-the-toilet-talked/

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  15. I seem to be struggling to devote time to my music related posts. For those new to my blog, I pair one of my own photos with a song I feel matches the mood, season, or atmosphere of the photo. On Mondays I also do Monochrome Mondays, highlighting one monochrome photo a week. Here is today’s choice-

    Monochrome Mondays

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    2. I love your photographs! And that fact that we share a name is pretty wicked.
      Seriously, though, your photos are beautiful. I agree, your latest photo is tops – it could easily be matted, framed, and displayed anywhere as art.

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      1. Thanks so much! I really appreciate that comment. Though I have a lot of photos at this point, you just know which are the cream of the crop. Off to check your blog out now too.

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    2. I have a somewhat similar story from your Redneck Police story. It can be hard to even associate with people that don’t understand the working class struggle; especially in a university setting. Also, I read through your About page and noticed you have a FitBit Charge 2! I just go one for my birthday yesterday. Any tips/tricks/comments to share??

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      1. Thanks for the comment! Love
        The Fitbit 2! I’m just sorting out the settings. My favorite is setting it to show text messages. Have you used that?

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      2. Not yet. I just set that up myself. I also just figured out that it has a specific setting for treadmill and bking; separate from just running. Pretty cool!

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  27. Hello, everyone!

    I would like to get some feedback on my blog overall, as well as advice on whether I should continue and develop it into a small business in the future! Thank you beforehand! Here’s the link:

    HOME

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  29. Hi Everyone,

    Take a dive into my blog. Share your thoughts if you wish, and follow me if you would like.

    Enjoy the read! 📖

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