Regarding your various suggestions…

I disagree about the template; a dark background, I think, makes the pictures jump off the page which doesn’t happen with a light background.

As for length of the commentary that goes with the pictures, you clearly don’t understand how difficult it is to get people to do the minimum of what you ask let alone go the extra mile.

Given the subject of your blog, you know as well as I do that you can’t control what people post in their site. If someone isn’t posting a link why would they post a button? It’s easy to say to do something, but this makes no sense.

I completely disagree with your suggestion number five for more reasons than I have time to enumerate.

You missed the fact that I already have buttons for people to subscribe to the site through an RSS feed.

Adding graphic ads is something I will be doing, which I don’t think negates the productivity of text ads.

Finally, yes, I will be converting from a blogspot site to my own domain. There are some variables in play which have to be worked out in order for that to happen.

So, are you going to send in your view?