Advice from a pro
I don’t think of myself as a professional blogger, nor do I expect to make any money with this. Nonetheless a well-thought out set of clues on blog-improvement does bear further investigation.
Let’s see, what kinds of additional pages does the artice suggest:
1. About page - to be repaired ASAP. This is in pretty terrible shape all right.
2. Contact page - to be added. Conspicuously missing.
3. Press page - will remain absent. This blog has been quoted ONCE in the press.
4. Disclaimer page - TBC. I added a CC-license to the sidebar last week, and I don’t think that I’ve got much to disclaim anyhow.
5. FAQ page - present, but seriously outdated.
6. Subscribe page - not needed, I think. The links are present in the sidebar (and any modern web browser knows how to interact with feeds).
7. Advertise with us-page - not needed, this is an ad-free zone.
8. Series page: compliation - I don’t really do series. The venerable “reading Sandman” got sidetracked by the arrival of the Absolute edition.
9. Series page: central - see above.
10. Affiliate pre-sell page - see #7, above.
11. Services page - this website doesn’t really offer any services worth mentioning.
12. Key information page - that’d be the FAQ page, m’m, just take a left at #5, please.
13. Landing page - again, no ads, no need to provide a landing strip.
14. Sneeze page - that’d be the “best of”-sidebar widget. Might consider expanding this to a page of its own. And definitely have to pull in the choicest cuts from the first three years anyway.
15. Testimonial page - nope, this blog isn’t a sales-channel, so there won’t be any testimonials around.
16. Event-specific page - nope, no events worth mentioning lately.
17. 404 page - missing in action, and will be provided, as the theme-specific one is kind of lame.
18. Special projects - nothing to feature, at least yet. If any of the ongoing therapy projects results in anything delivery-worthy, they will obviously get pages of their own.
19. Guest blogger-page - no guest bloggers (or even candidates for such).
20. Archives-page - present.
#. Privacy-page - probably worthwhile, but hasn’t been an issue.
#. Comments-policy - probably worthwhile, but hasn’t been an issue. Spam is mercilessly deleted (thanks to Akismet’s vigilance), everything else is published.
#. Links-page - yeah yeah, my blogroll is on the feeble side. I don’t feel comfortable exposing my entire collection of feeds, so this will remain a collection of friends blogs. But collections of good links might be publishable as individual pages in the future.
So, out of 23 suggestions, there’s a nice bit of housekeeping work to be done in the future: two new pages, and three to be updated.
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