Once again like the last review this is not a paid review but I am hoping that out of the quality these reviews your seeing some of you may purchase one from me to see what I have to say about your site!

You can buy one on the advertise page but enough of that, lets get right into the review!

NSpeaks.com is a great looking blog but after looking deeper into the site I have found a few things that should be sorted IMO. I am by no means telling them they have to change these but I had to make a review out of something so this is it!

Design Wrong

The design is a generic WP Magazine Style Template that I am sure I have seen on other blogs before. There is nothing wrong with a premium theme as long as you code it up a little bit and make it different then everyone else out there.

With that said the first thing I noticed on the site was the fact that the “Yahoo” and “Flickr” images right below his subscribe section are missing. I am not sure how he could have missed this but he did and it makes the whole site look bad. Granted people are going to have missing images on there websites and blogs but the front page is one place things should be right!

The second thing I noticed is that NSpeaks doesn’t list any of his full posts on the front page either. While many opt not to do this “Why?” you should at least have your latest full length post on the homepage. I went the old-school method and list my last 5 but its really a matter of preference!

Thirdly I really dislike the color blue he picked for the site, its like he tried to match the hideous blue feedburner chicklet or something? Come on dude use a nice light color if your going to use blue…

Design Right

While there are obviously some things I would do differently on the site there are a few things they are doing right and after tearing the blog apart above I thought it was only fair to give it some praise as well!

The first thing I am glad he did was put the Top Commenters widget on the blog. People fail to realize just how many people get a kick at being #1 on that list, its exactly why I put it on my blog and ever since I did I have averaged around 10-15 comments per post where I was not getting any before.

Another thing NSpeaks.com got right is the fact that they put there sponsors at a very prominent spot on the right side. This makes advertisers feel more comfortable when going to a site for advertising.

Lastly I like how he has a featured post / product section on the site. It lets his readers know that hey this is what you should be looking at right now! It encourages clicks which gives more page views and in my book its a winner! GREAT JOB

Subscription Section

I don’t think I have ever covered this in a review before? However this is the perfect opportunity!

Over the last few weeks I have come to realize just how vital a good subscription section can be. As you can see my subscription section is quite different from the norm, I actually got my idea from SuzanneFranco.com but I took it a step further by including a product for subscribers.

This is my point exactly, if you want people to subscribe you have to give them something they want, if its not something they want your wasting time. The best way I have found to ask people what they want is in forums like Bzimage and DP.

Summing it Up!

Well last but not least I wanted to thank you all for reading this review, be sure and comment below to let me know what you think. Remember the above is just my opinion but I believe if you do what I suggest your blog will flourish to new levels.

God Bless and have a great day guys!

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