Personal opinions:
– Lists are more usable than randomly floating words in a jumbled cloud.
– Your recent posts list is useless on the front page. That’s what your front page is for – to show recent posts.
– Advertisements… I’ve gotten into these kinds of debates with other webmasters who (in no uncertain terms) told me to go F myself and it’s none of my business. Which is true. How you “monetize” your site is your business (or problem, however you want to look at it.) but… (1) Monetizing works when you have valuable content to monetize. (2) Placing ads on a page in hopes of getting money from said page with no actual strategy just makes your site look like spam. and (3) – don’t you have to be 18 to join Adsense? (As stated by their Terms and Conditions – “By enrolling in the Program, You represent that You are at least 18 years of age…”) Bottom line – non-content targeted advertising (oh hey, I’m on a post about Facebook but it wants me to buy laundry detergent!) and advertisements that appear to just be thrown on a page to try to make money make the site look cheap, half-assed and spammy.
– Visitors online plugin – look for something that doesn’t force you to advertise for them to use their service. Plenty of plugins and code out there that will tell you how many people are online at the moment. (Visitors online really kind of falls under the useless information category, anyway. Just because 9 other people are on a site doesn’t mean my own personal viewing experience is going to be better or worse because of that. Why do I need to know there are 9 other people online?)
Coding problems:
– Single post views = sidebar dropped below content.
– Page compression, caching, minified js and css (to name a few things). Google these.
Complaints:
– Don’t publish rumors, discredit them, and then re-credit them by saying “well x amount of people posted it, so there MUST be some sort of credibility to it!” Check your sources, make a commitment to an answer (yes, no, is a rumor, isn’t a rumor, etc.) and stick to it. You lose your own credibility when in one paragraph, you point out that it’s false, and then in another, point out that it needs to be expanded upon simply because x amount of people are saying it’s true.
– Don’t misspell words for traffic ranking. (Or is that how you type to begin with? Come and cum, my and ma, facebook and Facebook (proper noun, but you just somehow decide when it’s proper and when it’s not? Pick one and stick with it.)
– “Yeah u r ryt.. but this news was published by a very popular international news source and over 200 million times it was shared by fb users on their walls. so in this kind of situation, nothing remains untouched.. We need to analyse it and post it over here.. BTW thanx for this comment.. hope to c u soon…”
Yes, an “international news source” is surely one that publishes stories like these? If you’re getting your actual news from agencies such as these,… I’m just going to end my thought right there. Also – where are you getting your facts on the 200 million?
That should give you a good place to start.
