Since day 1 i started Findmyblogway, the support and feedback that i received is simply awesome. The blogging community who accompany me are nice friends who provide me the source of inspiration and motivation which allows me to keep working on this blog. Sometimes i felt i am being pampered. To prevent me from taking things for granted, i need some critic to tell me what improvements should i make for this blog.
Why do i decide to invite a critic? I read a post from Blog Tyrant recently. The title is How to Stop Your Blog Bleeds. Give it a read if you haven’t. I left a comment behind and a gentleman left a reply direct to my comment. Here is it.
I am actually grateful to Chris for taking an effort to let me know what people expected to see in an opt-in form. To give constructive criticism to another blogger is not a common trend we normally see. You will not purposely criticize another blogger’s blog as you won’t know how the other party will take it. If you are a friend, you will feel restrained as you wouldn’t want to upset him/her and damage the relationship. If you don’t know the blogger, you will be worrying how other readers or the blogger will see you as most likely he/she is being protected by his/her readers.
Why we need critic
No blogs are perfect. We can never shout out loud we have the best blog or content in the blogosphere. Sometimes you just won’t know what is going wrong with your blog.
- Why aren’t you attracting readers?
- Why nobody likes to pass comments in your blog?
- Why do you have low traffic?
- Why is your subscribers count low?
There maybe plenty of reasons that you encounter the above scenarios. You wouldn’t have know if you don’t ask.
Most successful bloggers receive criticism is because people are jealous. The best way to bring them down is to criticize them. We do not welcome this type of critics. What we need is constructive criticism which help us to identify our mistakes or problems and to keep us on our toes. Your intention meant to be good and we should benefit from your criticism.
Why people don’t like to be a critic
We are putting ourselves in a nasty position as others will visualize us as a ranting blogger. Who wants to risk being unpopular in the blogosphere? I don’t think anybody will welcome it. Why aren’t people giving kind suggestion?
- People may take it personally
- You wouldn’t want to hurt someone
- People may find it offensive
- You are not comfortable in giving criticism
- Simply, people never ask for it
What do i need from you?
This is what i need to ask from you. I need constructive criticism and suggestion from you. Time to time, if you are unhappy about anything you see in this blog, do not hesitate to tell me about it. If you are uncomfortable on leaving it in the comments box, feel free to make use of the contact page. If you feel:
- My content sucks
- My design sucks
- My blog sucks
Let me know which area sucks and why it sucks. The more specific you give will help me to identify which area i need to do better or make improvements.
STOP BEING SO NICE – WE NEED CRITIC HERE
When is the last time you help to give positive and kind criticism in order to help others improve? Please leave a comment behind to share with us. I will be waiting for you to give me suggestions and mistakes i have made. Thanks.
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Fantastic to see you brave enough to do this. I can’t wait to see the response.
Tyrant
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This is very important in order to succes as we born not perfect.
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Hi Tyrant,
It’s a good way to seek for improvements. Sometimes we just have to ask for it. Hopefully there will be some response.
Hi Lye
I agree with you. Although we like encouragement and our friends to write affirming comments on our blog; how we improve our blogging will come from constructive criticism and helpful advice.
I liked how the blogger who commented about improvments to your opt-in gave suggestions. That’s why I said constructive criticism. Need to be told how we can improve a certain aspect of our blog; not just what’s wrong with it.
Patricia Perth Australia
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Hi Pat,
Definitely, constructive and helpful criticism will help us to find out what we are lacking.
I agree. Though he is not in the blogging niche but he definitely helps me in seeing my mistakes.
Thanks for the comments.
Lye
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Yes Lye,
people like to be nice because it is much easier to be nice than to make some criticism. And also by being nice you can create some important relationships that will help you in the future.
Is it right to behave like this? Most likely nope, but it is just natural for human.
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Hi Adam,
Good point. You have pointed out why there are so few critic willing to give positive and healthy suggestion.
Hope to have more as we need somebody to point out our mistakes at times.
Thanks for the comments.
Lye
Great post Lye!
Something different, you are looking for critics I like that
but sorry to say people are just scared to be portrait as bad guy when critics others openly. Not all can take the criticism in positive manner, its could backfire our effort to build good relationship with others.Thank you
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Hi Rammesh,
Thanks for the comments. Probably the reason why people seldom criticize is because nobody like to take it. But we can use another angle, we welcome constructive suggestion.
Awesome post Lye! We need constructive critics from bloggers who are willing to help. Most bloggers are fond of saying great blog, great design blah blah in order to make the blog owner feels good. Which is very bad. Most of the time, if a blogger should tell me that I have great content and all that, I don’t accept that notion. I’m always glad to see people who are ready to help you out by telling you the fact. I really appreciate this kind of people. But the problem is that, these people are rare. I mean before you can get them, it will take you a long way. Thanks for sharing. Have fun.
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Hi Samuel,
You are right brother. As long the criticism is base on actions and not personally, we should be graciously enough to take it and make improvements.
Thanks for the comments.
Lye
I love the feeling when a new blogger comes up to you and asks for help – that doesn’t always work with being a critic though. 8|
The biggest problem with criticism and doing it to people around the same level as you is that they will retaliate and possibly make a fool of you. I think this as all part of the risk though
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Hi Peter,
I understand your concerns but so far the people i met are nice, in fact too nice
Thanks for dropping by.
Lye
Hi Lye,
That was actually a very good suggestion from Chris. I think many of us read through blogs such as yours and find good information, but don’t actively seek out the problems with the blog to criticize.
Also, I bet that the people that had criticism left without ever leaving a comment at all. I think we all have to keep a keen eye on constant improvement and innovation on our blogs and use our traffic as a gauge on whether we’re doing things right.
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Hi Richard,
Indeed, that’s a very good suggestion by Chris.
I think you are right. People will only criticize in their heart and seldom we will see any efforts to actually telling the blogger what is wrong.
Traffic is indeed a good way to judge but it doesn’t specific which area. Is it the content, design or others? Guess we need to figure out ourselves.
Thanks for the comments.
Lye
it is a good blog but change the design
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Hi Praveen,
Thanks for the suggestion. I know the design is not unique. Until i seek for a designer’s help, i have to stick with it now.