Can you recommend improvements to my blog?
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Hello,
I have just revamped my blog. I am not expert blogger. Do you have any recommendations to improve it? What can I add? What would people use? What SEO improvements should I make?
http://www.ditalia.com.au/blog
Thanks.
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Do you mean the "Most Popular Blogs"?
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Wow. I haven't heard of that before! Looks good so far.
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my 2.00
but http://www.ditalia.com.au/blogs/article/tea-length-retro-cocktail-dress
get rid of the 3ed side bar
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I would add some more floating share buttons rather it's a bar down the left side or buttons below the actual post.
I would switch from YouTube and Vimeo
to Wistia it is by far the better way to get links. You can allow people to share the video which will point back to you in addition it will rank in Google because of its site map and schema.
You can also send it to ask for an e-mail at the beginning in the middle or the after somebody has watched a video. This is very helpful as you can get quite a large e-mail list from it.
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