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Posted by Bloggeries in Blogging
Bloggeries is looking at another money making blog, and this one comes with a few twists that lend it a very personal feel as well. The blog is called Blogging with Cents and the more I read the more it made sense. The blog is about mindless chatter with tips, reviews, and earning money online and is owned and written by a wife and mother of 3. This blogger makes no bones about her feistyness, as she can change her own tires, cook from scratch, and voice opinions or kick hineys if she is inappropriately ticked off. She blogs about life, people, news, reviews, money, tips, and freebies and runs her blog very professionally. Get a feel for this blogger and her Internet experiences by checking out any of her most recent bloggeries: Xfep’s Amazing Woman Blogging List, Increasing RSS Feed Subscribers, Prevention and Being Thankful, Blogging Away Debt and Living Longer, How Blogging is Like Losing Weight.
Navigation on this blog is very easy as this blog carries an extremely professional appeal with a clean well-organized template. Bloggeries are left marginalized in black text on beige background and black bordering. There are three navigation bars, a top navigation bar and two right-sided navigation bar. In the top navigation bar you will find all of the administration of the blog: Home link, About link, Advertise, Contact information, Disclosure Policy, Freebies, and Get Paid. The left sided navigation bar offers subscription options, Recent Entries menu, Most Popular Posts menu, advertising, and an extensive Categories Menu. The Categories Menu is rather comprehensive and offers a wide range of topics to read from: Affiliates, Blogging Tips, Contests, Featured, Gift Ideas, Health, Hope Tips, and so many more topics that can help you achieve your work from home goals. In the right navigation bar you will find advertising, Top Commentators Menu, Archive Menu, Blogroll, and Recent Viewers and Recent Readers widgets from My Blog Log.
I will go with a 4/5 for this blog. The blog is well written with a strong personal voice so the content scores are very good. This blogger appeals to her audience by offering advice and articles with a personal voice that makes her reviews and tips extremely user friendly and credible. This alone should provide her with a solid readership and steady growth. She also offers an appealing design that is both professional and attractive as well as easy to navigate. The blog scores some unique points as well given that it offers a wide range of topic, and the title of the blog is catchy and appealing. I think activity could use some work if the blogger wants to see even more growth. Activity is doing very well coming in every few days, but a daily bloggery may serve this blogger well with more consistent readership. Overall however, the blog would definitely prove useful to anyone looking for success through working online, and it should see continued success.
-Chrissie
Posted by Bloggeries in Entrepreneurship
If you are interested in any kind of Internet Marketing, take a minute to introduce yourself to Erik Karey: Internet Entrepreneur. Erik Karey is a 21 year old Internet entrepreneur who has created a blog on his journey to wealth. Erik has recently discovered the joys of Internet marketing, and is interested in being able to make a living from running, marketing, and administering websites. His blog serves as a discussion for those who share the same goals and who would be interested in the knowledge he has to share on the topic. He hopes you find his information both interesting, and useful. See for yourself if Erik’s information is just that by checking out his latest Bloggeries: My First Plung Into PPC Marketing, January in Review and February Goals, SEO is Important, Damn it Feels Good to be an eBay Affilliate, Introducing PHP Bay Ads, and Tis the Season for Affilliate Marketing.
Erik’s blog offers a clean template that is well organized and thus easy to navigate. Bloggeries are left marginalized and there are two right sided navigation bars as well as both a top and bottom navigation system. In the top navigation bar you will find links to Home, About, Projects, Advertise and Contact. In the left sided navigation bar you will see popular posts, Categories Menu, Top Commenters, and a MyBlogLog widget. Scrolling down to the footer you will see Recent Posts Menu, Recent Comments Menu, and a blogroll. Bloggeries are in black text on white background and each has a relevant picture associated with the posts.
This blog will get a 3.8/5 from me as it scores well on all major blog criteria. The blog offers a clean appearance and a well organized template. The blog also contains all of the major blog meat that readers enjoy which is incorporated into its several navigation systems. As such this makes navigation very easy. The content is well done in a user friendly voice which makes the information and advice it provides very credible to the reader. I would suggest that activity can use some work as bloggeries are spaced well over a week apart in some cases. This blog has a lot to offer its readers and if it were to provide a little more activity, it may even see some subscription growth. Overall however the blog is doing well with an active readership of over 100 subscribers, and if the blogger can maintain his personal voice it should do well in time.
-Chrissie
Posted by Bloggeries in Personal Blogs
Bloggeries is going to look at another personal blog pertaining to health, wealth, and happiness. The blog is called Katalina Mau. The blogger blogs about a little bit of everything, including a love for real food, real adventure, and real live. The blogger believes we are all entitled to create our own health, wealth, and happiness and blogs about ways that we can achieve this. Get a feel for this blogger’s philosophies by checking out any of their most recent bloggeries: Inspiration; You Can Quit Smoking, without pills, potions, or patches!; Which Wolf are You Feeding?; Changing Again; The One Heck of a Giveaway Contest, Blog Review – NorthxEast.com A Blog About Blogging; Need to Lose Fat? Cut Out Artificial and Processed Sugar; and 23 Ways to stay Healthy Year Round.
Bloggeries are in black text on a white background and there is a black bordering around the blog. Bloggeries are centralized and there is both a left and right navigation bar, as well as a navigation system in the footer. In the left navigation bar you will find featured sites and advertising, Recent Posts Menu, Categories Menu, Archives Menu, and more advertising. In the right navigation bar you will find Subscription information, ads, Link List, News from the Blogosphere, and AdSense. The Footer contains a Recent Comments Menu, Archives Menu, and an About Us page. The categories for this blog include Everything else, Happiness, Quotes, Health, Wealth, Business, and Websites and Blogs. Most bloggeries are accompanied by a relevant picture as well which adds some meaning to the blog.
I will go with a 3.3 for this blog for now. Right now I think the blog’s overall appearance is affecting the blog score the most. I would suggest changing the colors and formatting of the borders containing the navigation systems. With the black borders, the ads stand out far too much, they literally jump off the page and this is can be distracting from the blog content. I also think there is too much space in the navigation bars. Perhaps moving the navigation bar content into one comprehensive bar would fill up some of this empty space more. Another suggestion for this is to move the content from the footer into the left or right navigation bar. I think the material in the footer is good blog material, and it may go unnoticed by being left in the footer. The blog scores well for content. This is clearly more of a personal blog than anything, and I think the voice of the blogger is credible and has the potential to connect with its readership. Another idea is to have a search for the content inside the blog; at the moment the search is a google search and searches the web instead of the blog. I would increase activity a bit, or at least give it some consistency. Right now the blog is being updated anywhere from a day to a week in between bloggeries and it would probably get more traffic by regular updating. Overall, this is a great concept for the blog, and it is written well. With a few changes, the blog’s readership will be able to gain more from this content without focusing too much on the appearance issues.
-Chrissie
Posted by Bloggeries in Fashion
Fashion bloggers across the globe are doing everything they can during Fashion Week to make sure every last nitty gritty fabric details is noted, which celebs were spotted where, and of course, who they were wearing when they were spotted. Style It is not exception. Style It is where the fashion nerd meets the pop culture obsessed. Style It defines fashion nerd as the girl who knows who designed what and when it was worn. Style It also offers a wide range of celebrity coverage, and this is the pop culture component of the blog. The blogger of Style It is a 20 something girl with Southern Roots that is taking a break from higher education to pursue her dreams. She is obsessed with fashion and the people that make it tick. You can see for yourself exactly what Style It wants you to know about the collision of pop culture and fashion in her latest bloggeries: Fashion Week: Day Four from the Tents, Fashion Week: Day Two Live from the Tents, Fashion Week: Day One Live from the Tents, New York Fashion Week: Monopoly on Mania, Publicist Interview: Dina of Michael Rogers PR, Ask Style IT: Mexican Must Have, Obsessed: Conair Facial Sauna System, Define your Line with Borghese, and Hayden Panettiere in Lucky Magazine.
The blog is neatly laid out in a clean template which makes it very easy to navigate. Bloggeries are left marginalized and are in black text on a white background and links are in black. In the right navigation bar you will find advertising; subscription information; Links to add Style It to your facebook, Twitter, or MySpace; What’s Hot menu; and an extensive Categories Menu. The Categories Menu is divided into several main categories – fashion, beauty, celebrities, and entertainment, and these categories are further subdivided into more distinct categories. I did like this feature on the blog and found it very useful from a navigational standpoint. Each bloggery is accompanied by relevant pictures, which, for a fashion blog, truly adds meaning to the posts.
This blog gets a 4/5 from me. This is an excellent blog for fashion, beauty, or anything celebrity and it covers all niches very well. The blog scores well from a navigational standpoint as well as for appearance with its clean design and well-organized template. The blog is unique enough in that it offers its readers what they want in a very readable way. I enjoyed the style of the content as well as it wasn’t too technical, which some fashion blogs can be, and it read in a very personal almost tongue in cheek voice which gave the blog some flavor. The only thing the blog is really lacking is consistency in activity. Posts are coming in every other day to a week and some in between which may disappoint its readers. Overall however, this blog delivers to either the fashionista or the fashion nerd in every other way that it needs to.
-Chrissie
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