Review- Cristianr.com
ADVERTISEMENTSCristianR.com is a blog started by Cristian Raiber in March 2007. His blog is all about technology news, blogging tips and lots of guides on blogging, adsense etc. Cristian has ordered a review of his blog.
About the Author:
Cristian Raiber is a college student at one of the colleges in Romania. According to his about me page;
I’ve started blogging out of passion and because i was just feeling the need of sharing my online experience with the people who are worth it. I’m trying to cover every aspects that might interest you and me as well. The college i am currently studying at is called : Politechnic University of Bucharest. It’s a college with a tech profile, where i study advanced mathematics, physics, principles of mechanics, robotics and some other tech geeky stuff like that . Besides the above mentioned, in my free time, i also read about internet marketing and SEO which actually have become more like hobbies lately.
I was disappointed with the fact that Cristian has not provided his photo in the about page.
CristianR.com- the blog:
His blog mainly focuses on technology news, blogging tips, internet marketing and also guides on blogging. Few posts which caught my attention were;
- 5 Ways to get to the top of the Popular Page on del.icio.us
- Improve your Adsense earnings with section targeting
- Seven easy steps to speed up your site
- Four essential tips on building niche specific content
- 10 Tactics you should approach to increase your blog traffic
There are many other guides for increasing traffic and becoming a successful blogger.
Qtip K2 theme for Wordpress:
Cristian is also planning to release a wordpress theme based on K2 theme, he has named it as Qtip K2. The theme looks similar to the theme of his blog, but with a different color. He has provided with a screen shot of the theme. The theme should be available shortly for download.
My suggestions:
- It would be nice if Cristian could make his subscribe button a bit more bigger. Its not clearly visible to the readers. Further, Email subscriptions are not available, I strongly recommend Cristian to implement it. Creating a subscription page also is a good idea.
- I would like to see an archives page in the top navigational links and remove archives from sidebar.
- The search box can be moved to the top of the sidebar.
- Cristian has not used more tag in all the posts, I can see it only in few posts. I suggest him to use it in all the posts.
- Cristian can install Top Commentator plugin and increase the comments and participation on his blog.
Cristianr is a blog updated regularly with lots of quality content. I really enjoyed reading his posts on how to increase blog traffic and his blogging tips are really good. I recommend you to subscribe to his full feeds. I wish Cristian good luck with his blog.
Contact me if you would like to get your site reviewed by this blog.
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Jul 21st, 2007 at 6:53 pm
Are you sure you like that Flash drive? Ok You can have it one, but with your own money ok
Jul 21st, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Thanks for the review Nirmal .
Some things I would like to point out from the review
1) I have removed my photo from the about page because it was an old irrelevant photo .
2)I had an archives link in the top navigation header but I thought that no one was using it ; thanks for the advice and I will add it right away
3)I will certainly take into consideration moving the search box at the top of the sidebar.
4)The reason why I haven’t installed Top Commentators plugin (it’s actually installed but it’s not activated ) is because I think that this certain plugin doesn’t improve the quality of comments , just their quantity .
And I don’t want to end with comments such as :
“Wow , such a great post” , “I found this very useful” just so people can get a backlink for free.
I have also been enjoying reading your blog lately Nirmal , thanks for the kind review again .
P.S : Qtip K2 is going to be released soon enough -:)
Jul 21st, 2007 at 7:53 pm
Is that a review via ReviewBack?
Jul 21st, 2007 at 8:34 pm
Nope , it’s just a direct review
Jul 22nd, 2007 at 1:24 am
Great! you’ve given such a wonderful review. It seems that Cristian has got some valid points but then again, it is important to have comments no matter that they are coming in the way you want or not.
I think it depends on the blogger that how he drives the conversation, now in this case you can notice that my comment was not that 1 liner and it came up because there was a conversation involved.
Jul 22nd, 2007 at 1:46 am
You are correct ReviewSaurus
That is why I decided to give the Top Commentators plugin a go . You can now see it in action on my blog .
Regards .
Jul 22nd, 2007 at 11:07 pm
@Cristian,
As I was away I could not check your comments.
1. I feel that photo is a must for every blogger to have an identity. I’ll soon write a post on it.
2. Regarding the archives, why I suggested is because when your blog grows old, these archives will occupy lot of space in the sidebar. So its always better to move it to a page, with more detailed archives.
Regarding the top commentators, its true that initially you will get comments like that, but still they are also important and as ReviewSaurus has said, it depends on the blogger how he can attract comments. Good that you have installed it.
I waiting for your WP theme, looks good.
Glad that you like my blog.
Jul 23rd, 2007 at 3:42 am
I have updated my about page with a photo and soon enough plan on starting a gallery on my blog with loads of photos for people to enjoy them .
Yes , I will have to work a little bit on my WP theme ( it’s actually a K2 theme ) , because what makes it unique it’s that it comes plugin ready , adsense ready , and optimized for a blazing fast loading .
I don’t have anything to comment about the archives thing because you are correct .
Cheers and all the best ,
you’ve got yourself a new reader Nirmal
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