Linda

Liceum is what I used for LJFWolffe.com, with a re-done header.jpg. - LJF Wolffe

Hit the enter key too soon, sorry! How about making the title Digital Scrapbook Software - A Blog for the Creative or something that starts with your keywords rather than "the". Check the capitalisation in your categories as well. - Kim Baillie

Yes and I love it for your page (that's what made me think of it for Groobers) - my comments are about the digital scrapbooking page which I went to from the link in your post :-) - Kim Baillie

Oh, yeah -- just offering it as an example, since I know she's seen it. 8-} - LJF Wolffe

I know I'm always repeating the same thing, but with Adsense, the first glimpse that you get at the site is: The title (which could be improved as previously stated), the GoogleAds and the Sales offer. Practically no content that draws the viewer in. - Jorge Blanco

On the plus side, I love the big pictures and the short sentences, makes it stand out, easy to read and is not overwhelming at all. You might want to rewrite the sales offer copy to make it even punchier. You might want to experiment with "Read more" links in your main page, instead of having the full articles displayed. - Jorge Blanco

Put alt tags for your pics! You might be missing on google image searches! - Jorge Blanco

LJF- I should really have taken this site down as I have been thinking about starting again from scratch (comfort zone and all that) but now with all these helpful comments, do you think I should try them first before starting again? I am not sure what to do now, I would feel a bit mean if you had all gone to all this trouble and I just started a fresh blog...What to do, what to do? - Groobers

Don't worry, starting over takes courage. It doesn't mean that all the work in that page has to go to waste though. You can still get something out of it. Ed and Gurubob talk about that in the last days of the challenge. My only advice would be to prioritize. For me, starting my second blog takes priority. - Jorge Blanco

Groobers I think you are getting excellent feedback and I do believe that there really is a market for this out there. I was just speaking with my film developer and he was saying how there are so many people who are going back to film because they just aren't getting their pictures out of their cameras. This tells me that they really don't know what they can do with them. and don't know what to do with them besides just printing them out. If there was a process to make that easier and people saw how digital scrapbooking can work than maybe you have really found a powerful niche market? Just my couple of pennies worth today. - Elizabeth

Hi Groobers. If there is a market for the things you have to offer, and if you like the niche, why don't you try it? Well, finally it is your decision, and it might be that you won't have a success with this one. But I remember in one of the videos about niche marketing, Ed Dale said that he needed far more than one try to make a real success (was is about a dozen or more?) What I wanna say is: keep going and trying. The time you spent in this niche is well spent, since all the techniques you learnt and applied are valuable for other niches. Keep going! Persistance is everything, as they say! - Bjoern Krause

Paraphrasing Ed Dale: Most of the people that succeeded on the 30dc actually started all over again from scratch in the middle of the challenge. Reference: The first day when you evaluate your blog's success. (Sorry, forgot which day exactly) - Jorge Blanco

I've started all over again twice and starting to see it work, finally - keep the faith! - shawnsmith

Ha-ha - true, one of those restarters was me! - s thomas

Thanks to everyone for the fantastic help, comments and advise I will be working hard to take action on during the following days,months,years(I have promised myself to slow down). I have a question for everyone do people still want to continue with the "Ask Not What Your Room Can Do For You..." thing, if so is it up to me to choose again? - Groobers

You can choose, or someone can nominate their blog or a friend's (hint, hint) . . . - LJF Wolffe

Good someone else can choose, I hate choosing, way too difficult now that this room is becoming such a source of great information, provided by so many individuals (2001 room members and counting) Wow. - Groobers

I think that Groobers should be the next blog critiqued - Mark South

Groobers' blog is the one linked to at the beginning of this thread . . . Groobers, do you have another? One you'd like people to look at? - LJF Wolffe

My bad I thought it was your LJF... In that Case I change my vote to LJF - Mark South

But we did mine first . . . How 'bout yours? 8-) - LJF Wolffe

This is all getting very confusing (my fault, should have done a new post) LJF Wolffe you asked if I had another one for people to look at, if no one minds me suggesting again, how about Elizabeth (she is always willing to help people out, while working really hard at the same time to grasp all of this information,and more importantly act on it) Elizabeth has my vote. - Groobers

Cool! I think that's a great idea. According to her FF home page, her blog is http://scentsiblewellness.blog.... Elizabeth, should we look at this site for you, or is there another? Let us know! - LJF Wolffe

WOW - I am humbled and flattered all at the same time.:-) I am also feeling a little bared. Sure I would love for you guys to give me feed back on my http://www.ScentsibleWellness..... Here is some back ground: this was my first attempt at a site for my home based business and my first attempt at blogging. I put this together prior to the 30DC and didn't follow any rules other than what I was able to ascertain from all my various reading. - Elizabeth

Sorry to keeo going but I wanted to be sure to point out that I get a good amount of good organic google traffic but I have had extremely poor conversion and have not been able to build a list. That all said I would love some constructive criticism and helpful feedback. Thanks everyone - really I feel so blessed to have found all of you and am very grateful for all the help you all give on a daily basis! - Elizabeth

Ok, In general I like this blog. Here's my 2cents: You might want to consider writing something more attractive than "click on the kit for more information". If this is your main offer you should at least give a teaser line or something to engage the visitor. - Jorge Blanco

Also you may want to consider changing the theme of the blog. Not that there is anything wrong with this one, but you have a lot of products in your sidebar and they run all the way down where nobody sees them. If you switch to a 3 column theme you might be able to fit the blog navigation on the left of the posts and the products on the right. - Jorge Blanco

Hello Paul the answer to your question can be located at http://www.thirtydaychallenge.... - Mark South

Mark, I couldn't seem to find the answer at day 4 of the training. Could you explain further? - Paul Kendrick Sarcia

Kath - very awesome, tinypic! Thanks! - Paul Kendrick Sarcia

The only thing I saw there related to your question was the Piknik service video, but I doubt that is what you were asking. I like http://www.sxc.hu/ for finding good quality pictures (specially for compositions and graphic design). Just contact the authors for permission. - Jorge Blanco

The lesson explains how to pick a product and then how to get the picture, you will want the Picture to "be worth a 1000 words" From there you can use generic pictures as Jorge stated make sure they are not copywrited - Mark South

@Mark generic pictures? you mean like google image search pics? and oh by the way, thanks for helping.. - Paul Kendrick Sarcia

@Jorge thanks, nice one... - Paul Kendrick Sarcia

You have to check copyright and give credit where credit is due. Not everything that comes up in google search is free to just use whatever way you want, but there are lots out there that are. Just check on it first. - marilyn robertson

yes I use google images (not sure if it is the right thing to do) you can see examples at http://www.squidoo.com/recessi... and http://www.squidoo.com/Fundrai... - Mark South

@Mark i see...thanks for the help. - Paul Kendrick Sarcia

That is wonderful.. now you just build from there! Congrats to see another successful 30DC member - James Delong

Congratulations! Good job! - Jorge Blanco

yea for you. Nice first dollar :-) - Elizabeth

Brilliant! Congratulations Catherine! - Marysia

Great news, congratulations! Gives me hope too :-) - Jenny

well done catherine, 10 days is amazing!! maybe I'll get a sale...one day! - san jeewoonarain

It's my first day at the 30DC today so that's good news to hear - congrats! - Clare Swindlehurst

Great Job Catherine!!! - Mark South

Awesome! Just getting thru preseason myself. - Mark Bogue

congradulations - Warner Carter

YEAH You go girl. Well done. - Kath

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3 - system resources meter system that is easy to set up and looks good - Steven Hodson

more to come as I think of them :) LOL - Steven Hodson

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