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Friday, June 10, 2016

How To Render Your Popular Home Improvement Blog Work | 1

How To Render Your Popular Home Improvement Blog Work


By Adam Stossel


Maybe youve already set up your home improvement products review website, but you dont know where to go with it now. Or maybe you just need some advice and a few ideas for different ideas you can use in design. Either way, the following tutorial was written with you in mind. Well help you establish a solid foundation of success that you can build from.

You want to inform your visitors about latest events in the easiest possible way for them, and an effective way to achieve this is to use images. Of course, make sure you write something relevant about the event along with the pictures. Apart from entertaining your visitors, this would also get picked up easily by search engine crawlers, helping increase the search engine rankings of your page.

Content, content, content. Keep your visitors informed about your latest events with regular posts. Put up compelling images and write interesting copy to go along with them. The more content youve got up, the more easily search engine crawlers can find you, and the more often people will want to come back to see whats new.

Ensure that you have profiles on social media pages so as to grow your home improvement products review websites reputation. Some of the sites that you can set up your profiles in include; Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter and MySpace. With these, you will more often get to interact with your fans and check both positive and negative comments.

Dont forget to put your contact details on every page of your home improvement products review website. If a visitor finds a product interesting, he should be able to see your contact details immediately without having to hunt for them. Some people might lose interest and go away from your site.

It is important to gain attention for your business. The Internet can be highly competitive place but dont be afraid to go out grab visitors. In order to accomplish this you need an edge. But strategies for this are having a provocative headline or making a grandiose guarantees. Remember the more attention you grab the more customers you grab.

Time management is key when writing your articles. The best ones are usually between 400 and 1500 words because theyre short enough that you can churn them out quickly but long enough to be useful to your readers, attract links from other blogs and get search hits.

Complete page ads - or splash pages - are out of style and annoying to visitors. Anything you would have put on a splash page can be put on your home page instead. This way, the user gets to select whether or not to view the material as opposed to being hit over the head with it.




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Saturday, June 4, 2016

Happy 4th Birthday to the Shedwars Blog | Shed design software free download

Happy 4th Birthday to the Shedwars Blog



Happy 4th Birthday to the Shedwars Blog !
Believe it or not this blog has now been running for four years – hasn’t the time has flown by.

In my last birthday post  I set myself the 400 goal – that was to achieve 400 posts, attracting 400 followers and gaining 400,000 hits.



Last years post http://shedwars.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/shed-wars-happy-third-birthday.html

Well how have I fared. The blog post count is in my control and over the last 12 months I have been steadily adding to the tally and I can safely say that post #400 was past last month. So I can tick one of the goals.

The other two are to be frank outside my control. I can only hope that the content is sufficiently appealing and resonates with the audience to achieve the stated goals. As you can see from the table below I have built on both the number of followers and hits to the site.



Based on current run rates I’ll top the 400k hits in January but the number of followers has dried up in the last few months staying static around the 370 mark for the past three months. I shouldn’t complain too much as there has been growth during the year.

I continue to add between 6-8 posts per month and the hit rate now runs around the 12-13k /per month. I appreciate that the stats aren’t perfect but by my reckoning each new post gets about 600 fresh hits and the rest goes towards the historical posts in the blog. This means I am probably getting a large number of new visitors each month but they don’t want to follow.



 


 

Number of followers

Number of page views

Dec 2012

80

25000

Dec 2013

180

95000

Dec 2014

285

230000

Dec 2015

373

383000


The objective for next year will be to hit the half million mark for hits and 500 posts – This should be achievable barring any disasters.


So onto the highlights of this year and the chance for me to indulge a bit…


Perhaps the biggest highlight in 2015 has been to play so many wonderful games and share this great hobby with so many people.


A couple of years back the Shed only really had a couple of regular visitors but thanks to this blog and some fortuitous meetings I can now boast a regular weekly gaming group of 6+. It is with sincerest thanks to all those who have frequented the Shed in 2015 and for giving me the opportunity to play with all my toys.


We have played a vast array of games from the deserts of Egypt to the Frosty City of Felstad, from the steamy jungles of Central America to the Docks of Liverpool. So many genres, so many rules and so much fun.

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The Big Pirate Game - First Game of 2015


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Our first game of Lion Rampant played in January 2015 - Robin Hood

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Muskets in Tomahawks in March
First game of Pulp Alley in April

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Celebrating waterloo in June

Kicking off my Pulp Campaign in July
Pulp Campaign - Germany 1938


Massive Lion Rampant Crusader game
 
The painting front saw me complete my Armies of the Third Crusade and although they have only been out a couple of times I can now proudly boast two big 28mm armies. Add to this the additional units for my VBCW campaign – Postie Unit and the Naval Units. Plus Daleks, Sikhs and more Arabs
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Arabs in the 1930s

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The painted Saracen Army
Sikh Forces for my Pulp games

 
A Dalek Army

 

Over 100 Pulp figures painted for my scales of Anubis campaign including the rifle armed Arabs, and more recently I have started painting some fantasy stuff for Frostgrave. Best guess around 800 figures painted this year.
 
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Some pulp minis painted in 2015
 
I finished all 200+ Crusaders !
 
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The terrain building keeps going. The year started with my tramp steamer, and onto the docks of Liverpool. Most recently I have been building the boards for my Frostgrave campaign. I am fairly sure I can now feature most standard terrain types in the shed.

Remember the Volcano for the LAF Build something contest? I came fourth !
One of my most popular posts - building a static grass applicator
Started the modular tomb
The 1930s Docks finished
Tramp Steamer finally finished
Latest project - Frostgrave tables

 

The Shed Wars message continues to be broadcast to the bigger world – a couple of mentions in the printed press and two published articles in Wargamers Blogger Quarterly.

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Front cover of Wargames Bloggers Quarterly - my Egyptian Terrain

 

BLAM, the annual meet of the LAF went without a hitch (phew), and I was fortunate to travel to Tactica early in the year to meet some wonderful people. Add to this trips to Salute, Colours and Warfare my show needs were sated.

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BLAM in my local Pub


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Visit to Tactica in February

 

 


2015 has been a great year for the hobby – I hope 2016 is as good

Even the Shed got a lick of paint !

 
Thank you for following everybody....

Eric the Shed

 




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Friday, June 3, 2016

New Shed Blog | Shed plans diy free

New Shed Blog


Hi.
A brief introduction to my blog.........
Ive made many projects over the years in my small (8x12) shed. I hope to show you some of these on these pages and maybe inspire you to get out in to your shed and create a few yourself.
Ive a few videos of the stuff Ive made and Ill also post links to these on YouTube.
Most of the projects are woodwork and carpentry but as a mechanical engineer there are going to be a few welding and steel construction jobs aswell.
You really dont need a fully equiped workshop to produce some good results, like I say, my shed is only 8x12 and at times it can be tight but with planning and clever use of space it can be very productive.
The shed itself was one of my first woodwork projects and Ill cover that in a later post but inside Ive made collapsable jigs and fixtures that help to make maximum use of the limited space available.
So, if you have a shed and are keen to get a few projects built, follow my blog.
Thanks for looking in. Graeme


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