Blog Reviews by Bloggeries

Bloggeries is stepping a little outside the box with this review, with a look at a cutting edge website known as BloggersBase. If you have been looking for a one stop shop for heaps of quality content from the blogosphere, then BloggersBase is where you need to be.  BloggersBase is an online magazine created by and for bloggers, providing a community and online publishing forum where all bloggers can contribute and influence the readership and on site content.  In a few words, BloggersBase is a website where you can add and read content on just about anything, and quality content is what you will find.  The authors of BloggersBase are bloggers just like you, with each one having something different to say and an edgy twist by which they say it.  True quality content that sets the bar for excellent reading is the type of material that you will find here.  By joining the site you can both contribute and influence the content you come across.  Posts are submitted by bloggers who join the community, and you can use your own blog posts, or create something different.  And, if someone likes you post, they can rate it and influence the readership at BloggersBase.  The more you rate, and the more professional your ratings are, the greater your influence.  BloggersBase assures you that you will get the highest quality content in the topic of your choice, and you can see this for yourself through some of the most recently published bloggeries:  Educational Value of Youtube, Best Places to Buy an LCD TV, Dealing with Teenagers, You do not need anyone’s permission to be your true self, and 25 Top Blogging Mistakes to Avoid.

BloggersBase is not a blog, but a community of authors, and so it will take you some time to get used to the navigation.  While at first glance it looks a little confusing and complicated, once you understand the concept of the website, you will breeze through the many navigation systems.  There is a top menu you will want to check out first, where you can find links to the Home Page, a What’s Bloggers Base page that explains the site, Blog, Readers, and Bloggers.  You can join as a reader or a blogger and influence the posts online accordingly.  Navigate through the left navigation bar and you will get a better idea of what to expect here.  Here you will find the categories you can read or publish on, such as Entertainment, Lifestyle, Technology, World Affairs, Special Events, Partnerships, and Suggestions. You can read the Most Recent Posts, check out who is faring the best at BloggersBase through the Statistics Zone, or subscribe to the feeds.

This blog gets a 4.8/5 for  being  near perfect for the requirements of our reviews.  The website is definitely cutting edge when it comes to the world of blogging, and provides a fresh spin on blogging.  The content is top notch and the site design is laid out in an easy to navigate and well organized appearance.  Overall, for the avid bloggers that are looking for a new means to market their blogs or exceptional posts, this is a concept that will definitely work well in the blogosphere.  And judging by the amount of content and the statistics zone, this web site is not taking long to catch on with the reading public.  If you have a blog or something really neat to say, you will want to check out BloggersBase and get in on the action sooner than later.

-Chrissie

Bloggeries is looking at yes, another blog on how to make money blogging. The blog is called ‘Dat’ Money.com. The blogger wants you to help him help you earn money with blogging tips through his own personal experiences. The point of the blog is to reach out to beginning bloggers to help them get on their way in terms of blog monetization. The blogger does this by discussing his own blogging experiences and showing what he has learned, and what he knows of the pros and cons of blog monetization. Dat Money blogger has been blogging for some time now and has numerous other websites including OurBS.com, Datcurious.com, and DatPPP.blogspot.com. To see exactly how the Dat Money blogger can help you, check out his recent bloggeries: NEW Weekly Cash and EC Giveaway at DatMoney.com, How to Find and How to Get Advertisers to Buy Direct Ad Space, Does Technology and Blogging Belong to the Young?,  13 Blogging Forums You Should Join or At Least Check Out!, Dedication for my Fellow Bloggers – Are you?,  What to Post? When to Post it? and March Madness of Blog Contests.

The blog is well organized with a clean template which makes it very easy to navigate. Bloggeries are left marginalized and there are two right navigation bars as well as a top navigation system. In the top navigation system you will find links to Home, Blogging Tips, Make Money, Contact me, About, RSS Feed, Special Thanks, Advertise, and Banner Designs. In the first right navigation bar you will find a lot of advertising, Blogroll, and blog directory widgets. Moving to the far right navigation bar you will find Popular Posts Menu, Recent Posts Menu, Recent Comments Menu, Categories Menu, Archives Menu, and a My Blog Log Readers Widget. Categories essentially contain everything you want to know about blogging including Blogging – Design, Blogging – MISC, Blogging for Money, Blogging for Traffic, Blogging Tips, Blogging Tools, Contests, and so much more.

I am going to go with a 4.2/5 for this blog, as it looks like it is doing well on all Bloggeries criteria. This was one of those blogs that I started reading for the review purposes and found myself wandering here there and everywhere forgetting that I was in the middle of a review. That being said, the blog scores very well for content purposes and definitely kept me interested in terms of the quality of the content. I did notice a few typos here and there, so the blogger may want to keep an eye on that, for example ‘conceded’ should be ‘conceited’ on the about page. The activity is coming in every other day it seems at this point so the activity score is hurt just a little there as I only give perfect scores there for daily activity. Navigation scores are good here also as the blog is clean and organized. The same goes for appearance as well, though I do suggest the blogger limit his use of hashmarks to cross out content. A little here and there adds some humor to the blog but they appear more than a little bit and it is a little distracting for the reader. Overall however, the blog is a good blog in terms of what it offers in content and appearance, and thus it serves its readership well. If you are looking for a blog about blogging, Dat Money is worth checking out.

-Chrissie

If you are looking for another blog that will offer you some tips and tricks on how to improve your Internet marketing, then check out My Trade Domain, a blog offering website hosting and optimization tips, offers, and tutorials.  The blog is written and owned by blogger Dinesh. Dinesh wishes to use the blog as a venue for sharing his experiences in hosting, optimizing, and managing various domains.  Dinesh has been involved with the hosting industry in one form or the other for almost ten years now, and currently manages a fair amount of websites on top of this blog.  Having much experience in buying and selling domain names as well as hosting and related products, Dinesh feels he has a lot to offer his readers based on his experience and knowledge that he has gathered from reading books and online.  To get to know Dinesh better, as well as see a sampling of what he has to offer, check out some of his latest bloggeries:  SEO 101 – What Every Webmaster Should Know and Follow (a Two Part Post), Do You Time Your Blog Comment Responses?, Hide that Affilliate ID in your Link, Research the Blog Before You Advertise On it, Another One of those AdSense Optimization Tips, Ready to Advertise your Website – Wait Do this First, 4 Quick Checks to Qualify a Website for Sale, and Picking a Niche – Single Most Important Factor to Keep in Mind.

The site is fairly new making it extremely easy to navigate.  Bloggeries are left marginalized and there are both a top and right navigation system.  Bloggeries are in black text on white background and the blog is bordered in black but contains forest green accents with links and headlines in forest green.  In the top navigation system there are links to Home, About, Archives, Sitemap, and Contact page.  In the right navigation bar there is a subscribe button and the Categories Menu.  This Categories Menu is fairly comprehensive, and also accessible through the footer of the blog.  In the Categories Menu you will find categories such as Anatomy of a Blog, Domain Names, General, Getting Your Feet Wet, Hosting, How To, News, SEO, Starting Out, and much more.  At present, there are no pictures on the main page of the blog, but most of the bloggeries contain a ‘continue reading’ link and this will lead you to posts with tutorials and such that contain relevant pictures for the bloggeries.

I will go with a 2.4/5 for this blog for now, though it does seem to have some promise.  Activity is very good for a new blog with new bloggeries coming in about every other day.  The content is user friendly for the most part, however readers coming to this blog will get more out of it if they are somewhat experienced in SEO techniques.  By that, readers should have at least a little bit of knowledge to understand some basic terminology such as SERP’s and so on. If the blogger is trying to reach brand new bloggers and marketers, he may want to make his content a little more user friendly for the novice blogger.  I also think the blog looks a little sparse, which I attribute to it being such a new blog.  The blogger may want to see that pictures with bloggeries are featured on the main page of the blog to give it a little more spice, and should consider adding some blog meat to the side bar.  Possible suggestions for this would be a Recent Posts Menu, or Recent Comments Menu, or even both. This will not only contribute to the overall appearance of the blog, but to the navigation as well.  Overall however, this is a good blog with some great tips, and will definitely have something to offer those looking for SEO and optimization advice.  I would also like to see the author fill the sidebar; there is simply too much empty space which makes the blog look bare when in fact it doe have good content. I like the blog and enjoyed reading it; unforunately the template and lack of graphics gave a less then stellar first impression. With these elements fixed it would score much better.

-Chrissie