Giving feedback on a website

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Giving feedback on a website

Lately with the lack of comments to be given, many jump into feedback and review of sites in the same way.

It often lacks quality. And resumes to a few lines, without real content. Furthermore, it often repeats on several sites and starts to look as spam.
Hey guys, this is NOT how it works.

The last months the quality of feedback is so poor and bad that I have decided to flag those as spam from now on. Because it looks like running after easy and quick credits.

To make this clear some examples of good and bad ones.

Bad example , and lately most of them are like this :

'Great website, love all the info you cover, great photos and very fun to look through and interesting topics to read about, the layout is also so easy to use and i really like that factor, it is not to simple but not to confusing to navigate through. I love it.'

----> cheap statements without content

Medium ones , those give some specific hints, without details. There is some effort. They look like this

'Good Site! The outlook of the site could use a little work including the Menu, which looks quite crowded. May I suggest sub heading to minimize crowded Menu. The themes under each heading came out quite large. Took up the entire screen. Changing that would go a long way, as well.

Please, check on grammar and Capitalization on certain words within the content.

Thanks for the opportunity to provide feedback!'

----> There is an effort here, but rather plic ploc

Better one , you can start working on this

'Hi there and this is my feedback of your website and what I think about it. my positives and negatives and if any improvements can be made. First of all I want to talk about what I think the positives are. I like the fact that there are lots of content for sure, lots of information all in the right areas and always easy to access information whichever page you are on. Also, made me want to see more than the theme and niche is good and lots to choose from, the colors also work very well and apps and links to other websites that can be used at any point and are handy and very accessible. I Like the Images as they go very well with the theme and brings it all together to make it a nice website. But obviously there is always room for improvement so I’d like to go on to a slight negative which I think is probably my only grumble to be honest, the apps and links to other websites on the left-hand side of the page are slightly in the way of reading the content when you access most pages which was sadly annoying as I wanted to read more but other than that I think your website has very good potential and if this minor problem was sorted I’d definitely view it again thanks for letting me give feedback was nice to see your website.'

-----> There is a big effort here. Just all on a heap

Excellent one (try to be like that)

' I'll try to give you some constructive criticism, everything I write is in order to improve the efficiency of your website NOT to offend you.

So let's get started! :)

Things I don't like:

1. Navigation Menu -> Too much text in your buttons. I would make a page like "Categories" and put "buttons #1, #2, #3, #4 and #5 there. + Then you can try adding a "Home" "Contact" and "About us" buttons. + Avoid drop-down menus... with time as you add more and more posts it's going to look overwhelming and difficult to navigate from a user perspective.

2. "About us" -> It should be a Page, not a Post.

Things I like:

1. The site loads quickly.

Best wishes '

-------> easy to read, great points and well-structured

What is my point?

With giving those examples, I wanted to show what good and bad feedback looks like.

  • Do you recognize yourself as a bad one? Refrain from posting nonsense. And try to give a concrete, well-structured and detailed view.
  • Are you a medium one? Try to improve with more structure.
  • Are you good or excellent? Thank you. Your feedback is worth ten times its price.

Perhaps we need a valuation tool on feedback to improve quality.

Thank you for liking, shares and comments

What is your experience with feedback received?

PS

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I was honestly thinking about this yesterday. I asked for feedback on one of my blogs, correct me if I’m wrong, but if I post a certain link directing to a specific post and ask for feedback on my content regarding that post, am I supposed to get feedback on my whole website EXCEPT on the post I asked to get feedback on? That is happening way too often. I’m usually more of a comment giving person so I haventbreally used the feedback platform that much, but still it’s disappointing to see these types of feedback.

Some people do not read what you ask.
Running after easy credits
And their comments repeat over and over again

Better report as spam

I need to work on that. I feel so guilty of I report it as spam, or in the comments if I disapproved it for the same reasons I also feel guilty. I really need to work on that.

Do not feel guilty
You are not the problem
And some abuse the system

Thank you for reminding me this!

Just report them to site suport

Spot on Fleeky. I have found this too. Your share has been most helpful to me and I'm sure to others.
Ken

Welcome Ken...

Yes it is important to read what the owner of a website asks.
And to do some homework indeed. Not some random, cheap talk

I like this: Avoid drop-down menus. I once asked last year if there's a way a post can be arranged so I don't have to scroll up and down especially if there are hundreds of posts and I did not hear an exact answer or any instruction.

I dislike them as Well.
Solved wIth navigation widgets...

😎

I haven't tried to work with it yet.

Easy

Make a menu around one topic
Add all related posts
And use it in navigation widget

Let's say, I have one page which is "hymns" and are in English, Tagalog, and Ilocano. They are separate in submenus. How is it to arrange them systematically in widgets for visitors?

Can you pm me the link, so i give it a closer look?

I don't see problems with any of those reviews and would not considee them to spam unless you have dozens of the same type of comment...akismet would have picked them up if spam related.
Re which type of reviewer, I'm more inclined to provide the last example.

In this same situation, my concern would be the number of the generic responses, not their quality. If you're looking for specific feedback, check your statement about the feedback request, are you being clear?

Rudy

Oh well... we all need to grow in these

I agree with you Fleeky. This is most probably the one feature I need most, but get the least value from. I am a bit frustrated with this.

You get the option in feedback to load specific urls (pages or posts) for feedback and tell people what kind of feedback you would like. I mostly choose feedback on my content, but what I get is general feedback on my website.

It is okay if someone gives feedback on navigation and layout, but at least give some feedback about the specific page or post you land on as well and always check what kind of feedback someone wants.

My little rant.

Thanks for a great post.

Yes, when you get replies that are more general, even when you're being more specific about the feedback, that is annoying. Not everyone is comfortable telling someine what's wrong ir needs to be improved. Especially if they don't see it themselves.

I enjoy providing feedback that helps smooth the read, whether it be esthetic or grammar related. Even editing in a few cases when the phrasing might not have translated well.

Yes... it is important to look at what is asked for.
Many resume to general statements with no real efforts

Yes

Thanks for this info. Some comments for sure plainly indicate that the person didn't take time to scan through for constructive comments. It reminds me that it is the comments that actually enable our websites to be improved so that our visitors are not turned off. Nice Job Fleeky!

Thank you.

There is also a difference between feedback, which is not published and comments

Sure, maybe this can be your next blog topic? I am eager to learn more. Super!

Well... ok...

Done... look here

I was actually typing my wow! You are a genius boy. This is excellent work. A pat on the back for you.
cheers!
Jacqueline

Uh uh

Thank you

Patty back
Keep going

Very useful advices, I will use them. Thank you.
Every beginner like me can use advices like this.

Welcome and good luck!
We all have to learn this
😝

Thank you for this. I'm probably guilty. Haven't been sure what to say, write. I don't feel particularly qualified some times. This is a fantastic guide. Most helpful!!! I want to make my feedback of value. Now, I can. Thanks, Fleeky!!!!

Christine

Thats a good point, CMKetay, and stated much better than I this morning...many people don't know what to write in a feedback comment, because they don't feel qualified, etc. Or they don't want to offend.

I think providing any type of positive review or feedback is a good thing.

Rudy

Yes... just follow some structure

Great Post with good examples of how to do it the right way

Thank you Dave!

I have been very fortunate when receiving feedback. This was becasue more than one of those I had, shared similar views. With that I was able to deduce that it wasn't just an isolated opinion but more a general consensus that showed me something that I needed to address.

Yes... spammers show off very quickly indeed. Blabla without ground. Thank you for adding. Not all bad...
;-)

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