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Posted by Bloggeries in Shopping
This blog is for the shopper or the bargain hunter in all of us, and it’s called the Shopping 4 Coupons blog. Shopping 4 Coupons is a blog designed to provide online coupon codes where shoppers can check for deals of the day, special merchant offers, promo codes and free shipping deals from hundreds of online stores. The categories offered for these online coupons is quite extensive, and there is a little something for everyone here. The blogger hopes that you will save money by shopping online through this extensive collection of coupon codes and deals of the day. You can see this for yourself in any of the recent bloggeries: Free Kershaw Knife at OutdoorPros.com, Find a Pet Sitter in Your Neighborhood, Bachelorette Party Gear Save 10% Promo, Tickets Now Tickets Sale Save 20% on FTD Flowers for Mothers Day, and Guitar Hero: Aerosmith Coupon Code.
The blog is organized with a clean template design, and this aids in its ease of navigation. Bloggeries are right marginalized and there is a left navigation system. Bloggeries also are in black text on white boxed backgrounds, and the blog is bordered in a light, lime colored border. In the left navigation bar you will find the Entrecard, Requests Link, Categories Menu, Blogroll, Recent Posts Menu, Pages Menu, Archives Menu, and Recent Comments Menu. The categories listing is very comprehensive thus ensuring that any kind of shopper would reap benefits from this site. The Categories Menu includes categories such as Affilliate Marketing Deals, Amazon.com, Apparel Sale, Blogging, Buy.com, Clothing Sales, Computer Coupon Codes, Deals of the Day and much much more.
I give this blog a 3.0/5 for now and would suggest that most changes occur within the content. Overall from an appearance and navigation standpoint the blog has a lot to offer with its clean and aesthetically appealing design. The blog also contains all of the blog ‘meat’ and this assists with navigation and readability of the blog. From a content perspective however, the more I read I sense that this is more a blog to showcase advertising in bloggeries format. I am seeing very little written content within the bloggeries, and more advertising from the blogger. Judging by the recent comments menu, these are more trackbacks and pings from other business blogs, and are not so much an indication of an involved readership. Should the blogger develop a more personal voice within the bloggeries, that may change. Activity also is hurting with bloggeries coming in every few days to a week or more in between. Given that the blogger indicates regularly that daily deals are available on this blog, that activity rate is going to hurt their credibility. I think with just a few tweaks to the written content, as well as to how frequent the content is added would definitely improve the likelihood of success with this blog.
-Chrissie
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Posted by Bloggeries in Humor
Bloggeries is going to look at a unique blog today, and it is called the Best of Stupid Blog. The Best of Stupid blog is somewhat of a personal blog with a finely targeted niche demographic, those that enjoy stupidity. The Best of Stupid Blog is found written by bloggers that encounter stupidity so much that they decided the best of stupid should be recognized and showcased for its unbelievable lack of intelligence or usefulness. While the bloggers do not seem to have a lack of content or material to showcase stupidity, they will take submissions from their readership should you come across something of stupid significance as well. You can have a look at how the bloggers guage stupidity through any of their recent bloggeries at: Why Decimal Points Matter, This Week on Ebay, Oops…A New Meaning to Chinese Take Out, Crocs are Stupid too, All About the 4th of July – School House Rocks Style, and Is Your iPhone Getting You Down? Try Thumbles!
The blog is organized in a clean template which offers an organized appearance and ease of navigation. Bloggeries are left marginalized and there is a double sided navigation system. Bloggeries are in black text on white background, and the blog also has an aqua color scheme with links in the same color. In the left navigation bar you will find a Recent Posts Menu (titled New Stupid Stuff), an Archives Menu (titled Old Stupid Stuff), Tag Cloud, Recent Comments Menu, and Top Commenters Menu. The right sided bar is left more for advertising and a My Blog Log Widget. Most of the bloggeries contain relevant pictures, most of which the blogger has taken himself, which are cute renditions of the stupidity they run across in their every day life, and add humor and meaning to the bloggeries.
Overall this blog gets a 4.2/5, as it offers quite a bit to its readership. From a content perspective, the content is well written with a strong personal voice that lends humor to the bloggeries for the readership. The content is very entertaining, though is lacking in consistency with activity. Daily activity would give the activity scores a perfect rating, though the blogger is maintaining its readership with bloggeries every few days. The blog is well organized and thus does well for navigation, and this lends well towards its overall appearance as well. There is a presence of advertising, but not too much so, so the blogger is organizing their monetization well also. Overall, this blog is an entertaining blog, and could probably see an even larger readership with daily activity and more consistent traffic.
-Chrissie
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Posted by Bloggeries in Health and Fitness
Most of us have at one time or another attempted to lose some weight, whether we try to lose a lot or a little is all individual. Today’s blog is going to look at just that concept, feeding into a huge demographic of the public that is trying to lose weight. The blog is called the Weight Loss Guide and is found on its own domain at and is a blog geared to provide guides and tips on how to lose weight healthily. This blog provides educational information on different products for losing weight as well as plans and strategies and nutritional facts. The bloggers are dedicated to ensuring you lose weight faster, healthier, and in more reliable and natural ways than you have tried in the past. You can see this for yourself through any of the most recent bloggeries: How to Find the Best Weight Loss Program For You, Get Rid of Cellulite with Cellulite Cream, Choose the Right Vegetarian Food for your Vegetarian Recipes, Easy Weight Loss Tips, Starting Over yet Again: A Guide to Successful Weight Loss. and a List of Fat Burning Foods.
The blog is a very busy site offering many navigation systems that almost make the blog a little too busy. There are a couple of top navigation bars, a navigation system within the header, and a double sided navigation system as well. In the top navigation bar you will find Featured Articles, How to Lose Weight, Weight Loss Diets, Weight Loss Products, Weight Loss Programs, Weight Loss Research, and Weight Loss Tips. Bloggeries are left marginalized in black text on white background, and the blog has very newspaper style theme to it. In the left sided navigation bar you will find the Pages Menu, Categories Menu, and a Recent Posts Menu. In the right sided navigation bar you will find a multi-tabbed menu that includes Popular Posts, Most Comments, Search, and Archives Menu showcasing the two months the blog has been active. In this navigation bar you will also find the Recent Comments Menu.
As it stands right now, there is little I could offer this blog in the way of improvement, and thus provide a score of 5. The blog is very young, and like most new blogs is enthusiastic and has a lot of new material thus maintaining consistent activity. Navigation is very easy on this blog with its many navigation bars, all of which contain a wide range of blog meat thus keeping blog readers moving through the blog at a steady and consistent pace. The appearance of the blog is slightly overwhelming because of this, but overall the organization works well. I do suggest some more pictures on the main page of the blog to avoid the newspaper style look that appears very texty with little relevant pictures. The content of the blog is well researched and well written in a user friendly voice thus adding even more appeal to the blog. Overall, this is a blog with a hot demographic that should do very well over time.
-Chrissie
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Posted by Bloggeries in Personal Blogs
Bloggeries is going to look at another personal blog today, and this blog is known as The RhodesTer Chronicles. The Rhodester Chronicles, as the header tells us, is playfully pondering the universe in a strong personal voice on this personal bog. The Rhodester Chronicles is found on its own domain at and is a blog that literally chronicles all that is good, funny, or interesting in the life of the blogger. The blog is lacking an About page, but you can get to know the blogger better through any of their recent bloggeries: The 4th of Julie, Bad Boys, The Prestigious Palm Springs Savant and Co., RHODES? Where are we going?, A Brush with the Law, VLOG! Yes, VLOG, and WHOA, Like…..
For best navigation the blog is best viewed through Firefox, but overall the clean template of the blog design offers ease of navigation. Bloggeries are left marginalized, and are in black text on white background with links highlighted in blue. In the right navigation bar you will find Subscription Info, Categories Menu, Recent Comments Menu (known as Snarky Remarks), Archive Menu (known as In the Vault), Recent Viewers widget, and some blog directory widgets. Because the blog is a personal blog and is much ado about anything, the Categories Menu contains a little bit of everything relevant to the blogger in categories such as quest Posts, Hall of Fame, Hollywood DAZE, Perilous Pics, Raving Reviews, and so much more. Each bloggery is accompanied by at least one, but generally several, relevant pictures that add meaning and humor to the bloggeries.
Overall this blog gets a 4.65/5 as it is organized well and has a unique flavor to it. From a content perspective, the content is fresh and written well enough to make me laugh out loud, and was an enjoyable read, however a higher score here would happen if the activity was a little more consistent. Currently the blog is being updated every few days, and daily activity would more than likely get this blog close to perfect. The appearance of the blog is well done also, with a clean template and a wide variety of colors and pictures and no advertising to offer distractions. From a navigation standpoint the blog is well organized to ease navigation, however I would suggest the blogger add an About Page, as otherwise it is very difficult to determine the purpose of the blog. This blog is very creative and I appreciated the unique touches in the side bar with its quirky menu titles that offer a humorous tone to the blog, a tone that blends well with the blog content. All in all, the content will push this blog far, as the Rhodester Chronicles was an enjoyable blog to read, and it should do very well.
- Chrissie
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