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1) GET MORE VISITORS. You really need to get WAY more visitors to see some money from adsense. How to get visitors? I would find a suitable sub-reddit and ask t

1) GET MORE VISITORS. You really need to get WAY more visitors to see some money from adsense. How to get visitors? I would find a suitable sub-reddit and ask the people there to link to you, share you on facebook etc. Write articles and submit them to ezinearticles.com 2) ADD A "DONATE" BUTTON. Easily implemented, you will explicitally ask people for a trivial amount (2$? 5$?) to help you keep the website alive. Say people that your blog helps people but you can't just keep paying for it.

Mz 14y ago
I actually have a donate button but people cannot seem to find it. Any suggestions on how to improve that? I mean, obviously I need to add it to the index page, something I intended to do at one time. Any other suggestions beyond that? Thanks.
- trienthusiast 14y ago
  1) change theme, immediately. If i can be unpolite, this must be one of the worst colour combination I have seen in a website. 2) the homepage is kind of useless. You have some text and there seeems not to be anything else around it. The real content is the blog and the link to the yahoo group. You don't need that. Make a homepage that has a) your text on the top b) the blog underneath it. 3) put some "about me" that is a quick (300-500) characters with your picture, maybe your kids and explain your story and what you do. I have been on the website a while and still i have no idea what is the issue at hand. 4) the 3) will actually link to the "donate" button. Explain that your experience and the community can help other people. your donate button is orange over brown (!!) and the text black over brown. It seems you are trying to hide it on purpose. hint: go white background and never go back. 5) your adsense banners... with those numbers you'll never see money. use that space to make a compelling story for people to donate. tell them how much. 2$ 5$ 10$
  - Mz 14y ago
    Answering a direct question is not unpolite in my book. I am not crazy about the colors of the wordpress theme. I chose it in part to try to coordinate with the existing site and in part because other design elements are nice. I will look around but if I had more of the right skills I would probably first try to tweak the existing theme instead. I don't understand your last sentence in point 2. Do you mean leave the archive as the main body of the site? I don't want to remove the older part of the site because it has detailed instructions on treatments which I once used but a lot of the info there is out of date. I would like to preserve it but move the emphasis to the blog and try to find a means to more effectively convey my current thinking and mental models. My preference is to emphasize rubrics which can lead to multiple possible effective solutions. I think a top down, one size fits all solution helps create problems.

Mz 14y ago

I actually have a donate button but people cannot seem to find it. Any suggestions on how to improve that? I mean, obviously I need to add it to the index page, something I intended to do at one time. Any other suggestions beyond that? Thanks.

trienthusiast 14y ago
1) change theme, immediately. If i can be unpolite, this must be one of the worst colour combination I have seen in a website. 2) the homepage is kind of useless. You have some text and there seeems not to be anything else around it. The real content is the blog and the link to the yahoo group. You don't need that. Make a homepage that has a) your text on the top b) the blog underneath it. 3) put some "about me" that is a quick (300-500) characters with your picture, maybe your kids and explain your story and what you do. I have been on the website a while and still i have no idea what is the issue at hand. 4) the 3) will actually link to the "donate" button. Explain that your experience and the community can help other people. your donate button is orange over brown (!!) and the text black over brown. It seems you are trying to hide it on purpose. hint: go white background and never go back. 5) your adsense banners... with those numbers you'll never see money. use that space to make a compelling story for people to donate. tell them how much. 2$ 5$ 10$
- Mz 14y ago
  Answering a direct question is not unpolite in my book. I am not crazy about the colors of the wordpress theme. I chose it in part to try to coordinate with the existing site and in part because other design elements are nice. I will look around but if I had more of the right skills I would probably first try to tweak the existing theme instead. I don't understand your last sentence in point 2. Do you mean leave the archive as the main body of the site? I don't want to remove the older part of the site because it has detailed instructions on treatments which I once used but a lot of the info there is out of date. I would like to preserve it but move the emphasis to the blog and try to find a means to more effectively convey my current thinking and mental models. My preference is to emphasize rubrics which can lead to multiple possible effective solutions. I think a top down, one size fits all solution helps create problems.