Website Review – My Day Off

This week’s site review is the was the website of the week last week at Blog Whammy ….

website : My Day Off
url : http://www.mydayoff.com.au/

This site is written by Anne Maybus, the owner of Beauty Banquet. My Day Off is a resource blog that provides you with tips about kicking back and relaxing as well as stories that are designed to tickle the funny bone.

suggestions for change :

• The About link is currently giving an error as there is no page there. Fixing this would be the number #1 suggestion. People want to know more than just the information you provide, they want to know who you are. Remember people do business with people they like.
• My #2 suggestion is to change the permalink name from the generic (http://mydayoff.com.au/?p=247) to a link that has the post name (also know as the post slug) as part of url. This can be done in Wordpress (the platform that My Day Off uses) via the Options Menu. Having keywords in your url can improve the search engine optimisation of the site.
• The About page error is going to a generic “404 Error” page. Consider adding your own customised 404 page.
• Remove the “by admin” author information under the Post Heading or change your username to something more meaningful.
• I would suggest that you move away from the username of admin (to generic and to easy to hack into).
• Fix the problems that are stopping the site from validating (why validate?)
• Add contact information and/or link to contact page above the fold. How would someone contact you if they particularly liked what you had to say (or wanted to send you a sample to review on the blog).
• The RSS Feed link is not labelled well and will not be obvious to people who don’t know what the orange box means. You should have a more user friendly description like “Subscribe to RSS Updates” and the option to “Subscribe to Email Updates” should also be provided. Feedburner can help you with this and with managing all aspects of the feeds and subscriptions to your blog.
• Change the name of the “Uncategorized” category to somehing more meaningful.

Keep up the great work Anne and keep providing us with some tidbits that help make the world of the WAHM and small business woman a little lighter.

If you have any feedback on the site or questions about what I’ve had to say then just join the conversation in the comments.