About Kirsty77
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Hi, my name is Kirsty. I'm originally from Sussex in England and spent 22 years there before travelling around Australia where I met my husband

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Hi guys,

I could really do with some feedback. I feel I've hit a bit of a brick wall. I'm at the stage with my training where I'm going through the 'Adding Affiliate links

Well done for getting your site off the ground and adding so much content. It's looking good and you write well.

Just a few things:

1. The recipes menu - I found it off-putting to have the 'cleaning' mixed up with breakfast lunch and dinner.
2. The home page - you have that really large picture - which in my view is a distraction and isn't adding anything. A lot of people won't bother to scroll down and you have to on your home page to see anything. You already have the header - so if you want an image I would make it smaller and have the text running round it.

3. Homepage - I would use some bullet points or headers. You want to make it as easy as possible for people to skim read.

4. Have you as a user - you don't want posts with admin - it doesn't look great.

As Nenita says - your homepage is really nice.

Beverley

Great thanks so much Beverley, great feedback, I'll get onto those things now. :-)

Done, easy. Thanks Nenita

I understand where you are. Amazon's affiliate program has many organic products that play into you niche really well. I would look for organic affiliate programs, or programs you know have natural products without the added colors and flavorings. You are right about the natural products, there is a lot of marketing hype from manufacturer's concerning the 'Natural' label. There are also some affiliate opportunities in linkshare that offer natural home furnishing products that you could check out also.

For some more website content, teaching on what really is natural, such as ingredients and foods to avoid that are full of toxins, is an idea. Also post on what to look for in labels that help in determining how natural a product really is. How to maintain the lawn or garden using natural means, how to get rid of bugs with natural products, or recipes that can be made at home instead of purchasing products that are not natural is some other ideas to continue working on.

Some good product reviews for your site would be some natural or organic products. Amazon has lots of them. Hope this helps. You have a really nice website started. Good luck.

Fantastic advice, thanks so much, I'll look into Amazon and Linkshare. I've already added pages for Chemicals to avoid in food and products but I want to write a blog next about reading labels. I also have my own homemade cleaning products recipes but perhaps I should include recipes for other things like bug sprays like you suggested. Thanks again

Hello Kristy,

I will concentrate on getting more traffics and visitors on your site before adding Affiliate links. I have noticed all your images are clickable and open another tab, which serve no purpose. You want your readers to stay at your site not chase them away.

I like the About me page, looking at your family portrait make someone feel comfortable trusting you. Great job...Nenita

Great, thanks for advice. How do I make the images not clickable??

go to your post or your page where you have your image, then click the image http://d.pr/i/RQEg then remove the Link URL leave it blank.

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Hi guys,

I could really do with some feedback. I feel I've hit a bit of a brick wall. I'm at the stage with my training where I'm going through the 'Adding Affiliate links

Well done for getting your site off the ground and adding so much content. It's looking good and you write well.

Just a few things:

1. The recipes menu - I found it off-putting to have the 'cleaning' mixed up with breakfast lunch and dinner.
2. The home page - you have that really large picture - which in my view is a distraction and isn't adding anything. A lot of people won't bother to scroll down and you have to on your home page to see anything. You already have the header - so if you want an image I would make it smaller and have the text running round it.

3. Homepage - I would use some bullet points or headers. You want to make it as easy as possible for people to skim read.

4. Have you as a user - you don't want posts with admin - it doesn't look great.

As Nenita says - your homepage is really nice.

Beverley

Great thanks so much Beverley, great feedback, I'll get onto those things now. :-)

Done, easy. Thanks Nenita

I understand where you are. Amazon's affiliate program has many organic products that play into you niche really well. I would look for organic affiliate programs, or programs you know have natural products without the added colors and flavorings. You are right about the natural products, there is a lot of marketing hype from manufacturer's concerning the 'Natural' label. There are also some affiliate opportunities in linkshare that offer natural home furnishing products that you could check out also.

For some more website content, teaching on what really is natural, such as ingredients and foods to avoid that are full of toxins, is an idea. Also post on what to look for in labels that help in determining how natural a product really is. How to maintain the lawn or garden using natural means, how to get rid of bugs with natural products, or recipes that can be made at home instead of purchasing products that are not natural is some other ideas to continue working on.

Some good product reviews for your site would be some natural or organic products. Amazon has lots of them. Hope this helps. You have a really nice website started. Good luck.

Fantastic advice, thanks so much, I'll look into Amazon and Linkshare. I've already added pages for Chemicals to avoid in food and products but I want to write a blog next about reading labels. I also have my own homemade cleaning products recipes but perhaps I should include recipes for other things like bug sprays like you suggested. Thanks again

Hello Kristy,

I will concentrate on getting more traffics and visitors on your site before adding Affiliate links. I have noticed all your images are clickable and open another tab, which serve no purpose. You want your readers to stay at your site not chase them away.

I like the About me page, looking at your family portrait make someone feel comfortable trusting you. Great job...Nenita

Great, thanks for advice. How do I make the images not clickable??

go to your post or your page where you have your image, then click the image http://d.pr/i/RQEg then remove the Link URL leave it blank.

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Hi,

I need some help with my pages in my menu bar. As you can see from my screenshot, I added 'Recipes' to my menu bar with sub-categories because I think it's important f

Hi Kirsty

Just thought I would let you know that there is a plugin called Recipe Cards which I am using and its very good, easy to use and your viewers can print off the recipe as well.

Great thanks Simon, I'll check it out. :-)

Hey while I'm on the subject of page advice, do you know how to set up downloadable printables for my viewers/guests?

That one I do not know

You can also do it like you followed in my training, like you put the lunches under the recipes, you can then put a page under lunches just the same way.

Thanks Mikey, that's awesome, appreciate the advice :-)

I hope that helped...there is a training module coming soon from DomW I think on TinyMCE, so keep an eye out

go to plug-ins and click add, search for Ultimate TinyMCE. install it and the go to settings and download the buttons you want. make sure you get the "---" horizontal rule button. This will place a nice line under each recipe. When you have it, set width to 100 % not px

Thanks MikeyB but what about adding multiple recipes to each category with multiple pics, do I just enter spaces and then add the next recipe underneath the last one? Will the pic of the next recipe go in the right place? I guess I just want to make sure each recipe is separated out nicely on each page. What does TinyMCE do?

yes just add your recipe with pics then in your text tab, not visual, type


after the last word of the recipe or last word of pic, to get a nice line under each recipe...hmmm that doesnt make sense does it. TinyMCE is a plug in that allows you to be alot more creative with youfr fonts and such. Let me see if I can find some help on that horizontal rule.

If I understand you correct, your menu is set up how you want it. So now you want to add recipes to the drop downs. It doesnt need to be posts now as this can all be static.
In the dashboard just click on the page you want to edit, so, breakfast and add the recipe to that page and add a pic via the add media button. You may want to add the TinyMCE plug-in to your site to give yourself a lot more options when creating your pages.

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Help with setting up recipe pages

Help with setting up recipe pages

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Hi,

I need some help with my pages in my menu bar. As you can see from my screenshot, I added 'Recipes' to my menu bar with sub-categories because I think it's important f

Hi Kirsty

Just thought I would let you know that there is a plugin called Recipe Cards which I am using and its very good, easy to use and your viewers can print off the recipe as well.

Great thanks Simon, I'll check it out. :-)

Hey while I'm on the subject of page advice, do you know how to set up downloadable printables for my viewers/guests?

That one I do not know

You can also do it like you followed in my training, like you put the lunches under the recipes, you can then put a page under lunches just the same way.

Thanks Mikey, that's awesome, appreciate the advice :-)

I hope that helped...there is a training module coming soon from DomW I think on TinyMCE, so keep an eye out

go to plug-ins and click add, search for Ultimate TinyMCE. install it and the go to settings and download the buttons you want. make sure you get the "---" horizontal rule button. This will place a nice line under each recipe. When you have it, set width to 100 % not px

Thanks MikeyB but what about adding multiple recipes to each category with multiple pics, do I just enter spaces and then add the next recipe underneath the last one? Will the pic of the next recipe go in the right place? I guess I just want to make sure each recipe is separated out nicely on each page. What does TinyMCE do?

yes just add your recipe with pics then in your text tab, not visual, type


after the last word of the recipe or last word of pic, to get a nice line under each recipe...hmmm that doesnt make sense does it. TinyMCE is a plug in that allows you to be alot more creative with youfr fonts and such. Let me see if I can find some help on that horizontal rule.

If I understand you correct, your menu is set up how you want it. So now you want to add recipes to the drop downs. It doesnt need to be posts now as this can all be static.
In the dashboard just click on the page you want to edit, so, breakfast and add the recipe to that page and add a pic via the add media button. You may want to add the TinyMCE plug-in to your site to give yourself a lot more options when creating your pages.

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Hi, I'm trying to add a new page on my website called Recipes, I want it as a page (not categories) because I want it to show up in my menu bar next to my Blog page. First quest

I can try to point you in the right direction, This is how I get my pages to show in the top navigation menu.

go to your wordpress dashboard and find the section that's says “appearance”. Under the appearance look for “menus” and click it.

You will need to create a new menu, after you press “save menu” you will see menus settings, you will need to check the box that says “Primary Website Navigation” .

Every page that you put into that menu with the primary website navigation checked, it will show up on the top menu.

Thanks for the advice, slowly getting there :-)

Here also is another training on creating custom menus that will help you. https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/how-to-organize-your-menu-navigation

You need to create Custom Menus to address all these issues. You'll find it much easier and user friendly for your visitors to use posts rather than pages for each recipe, as you can add a category or categories and sort them into separate blogrolls. I'd start with this training https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/creating-custom-menus-in-wordpress You might also want to consider a "tag cloud" adding main ingredients as tags to each post, and then adding a tag cloud widget to the sidebar or footer. There are also specific recipe themes that add additional "taxonomies" ie. a custom built recipe post template that simplify the creating of each recipe and keeps the overall look of a site consistent. Rich.

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Hi, I'm trying to add a new page on my website called Recipes, I want it as a page (not categories) because I want it to show up in my menu bar next to my Blog page. First quest

I can try to point you in the right direction, This is how I get my pages to show in the top navigation menu.

go to your wordpress dashboard and find the section that's says “appearance”. Under the appearance look for “menus” and click it.

You will need to create a new menu, after you press “save menu” you will see menus settings, you will need to check the box that says “Primary Website Navigation” .

Every page that you put into that menu with the primary website navigation checked, it will show up on the top menu.

Thanks for the advice, slowly getting there :-)

Here also is another training on creating custom menus that will help you. https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/how-to-organize-your-menu-navigation

You need to create Custom Menus to address all these issues. You'll find it much easier and user friendly for your visitors to use posts rather than pages for each recipe, as you can add a category or categories and sort them into separate blogrolls. I'd start with this training https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/creating-custom-menus-in-wordpress You might also want to consider a "tag cloud" adding main ingredients as tags to each post, and then adding a tag cloud widget to the sidebar or footer. There are also specific recipe themes that add additional "taxonomies" ie. a custom built recipe post template that simplify the creating of each recipe and keeps the overall look of a site consistent. Rich.

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Hi, can someone help? I've set up my website and FB page and followed the training that said to tick the box in the 'Tweet Like Share & Google +1 option page' for "Display F

Ok. So then how do you connect your FB page so that it reflects your FB network on your website? I've seen many blogs that have a FB section that shows them how many people are following them on FB.

That is usually accomplished within the theme or a plug-in.

Thanks I downloaded that plugin and it's on my page. But how do I then link it to my FB page so that each new 'like' I get on my FB page shows up on my website?

Kirsty77 those who visit your website need to be logged into Facebook. They click the Facebook like icon on blog page or post. These likes are not connected to your Facebook page.

Kirsty try adding a social share Wordpress plugin in. This is one of my favorites http://wordpress.org/plugins/twitter-facebook-google-plusone-share/ You can download it to your desk top and install it using the plugins feature on your Wordpress site.

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Hi, can someone help? I've set up my website and FB page and followed the training that said to tick the box in the 'Tweet Like Share & Google +1 option page' for "Display F

Ok. So then how do you connect your FB page so that it reflects your FB network on your website? I've seen many blogs that have a FB section that shows them how many people are following them on FB.

That is usually accomplished within the theme or a plug-in.

Thanks I downloaded that plugin and it's on my page. But how do I then link it to my FB page so that each new 'like' I get on my FB page shows up on my website?

Kirsty77 those who visit your website need to be logged into Facebook. They click the Facebook like icon on blog page or post. These likes are not connected to your Facebook page.

Kirsty try adding a social share Wordpress plugin in. This is one of my favorites http://wordpress.org/plugins/twitter-facebook-google-plusone-share/ You can download it to your desk top and install it using the plugins feature on your Wordpress site.

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