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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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Bloggeries is going to look at a blog in a unique niche today, and the blog is called the Avelient Bio Pharm Blog. This Bio Pharm Blog is run by Mariano Di Fabio and Scott Alexander, who have a wealth of experience in this industry. Mariano blogs with over 10 years experience as a consulting professional in the Pharmaceutical industry, and he joined with his business partner Scott to create Avelient. Avelient is a a project-oriented, full service IT Solutions Provider, specializing in team-based service delivery for Pharmaceutical companies in New York and New Jersey and the blog is a reflection of their work. The blog is used as a forum for readers to discuss ideas and opinions in the industry. You can see this for yourself through any of their recent bloggeries: $10,000 Health Challenge to Big Pharma, Back to Virtuality, Spurious Motivation, Drinking Other’s Prescriptions, Morphing Blood, and Professional Lab Rats.
The blog offers a clean layout and design which ordinarily would make navigation easy, however there is little blog meat on this blog making navigation cumbersome. Bloggeries are left marginalized in black text on white background with a beige border. In the right navigation system you will find a tag cloud, a Biopharm Books and Products menu, Directory Widgets, AdSense, Blog Calendar, Contributors Menu, and Related Groups Menu. While I see a lot of interesting information related to the niche located on the blog, I do not see many features that the blog could use to connect with its readership. Things of this nature would include Recent Comments Menus, Categories Menu, and general blog meat. Each bloggery is also very textual with little to no pictures associated within the bloggeries, making the blog a little to informational. In order to lessen this effect, some graphics within posts may help.
Overall I give this blog a 2.4/5 as it is a good blog just seriously lacking in several areas. From an appearance perspective, the blog is far too texty, and while it offers a clean layout, some graphics would add to its appearance. A graphic here and there would do wonders to interst the first time reader; I couldn’t even find an image to attach for this blog review… Content wise the blog does great with well written content that the readers can connect to, however, activity is hurting this blog as well. This blog has two bloggeries from June on the main page, but nothing more recent than that since April. This kind of activity is not enough to sustain a readership and the blogger needs to get on the updates. The blog offers a unique enough niche that it can target with more consistent content, and with a few tweaks to the navigation and organization of the blog, it could develop a healthy readership in order to see some growth and success.
-Chrissie
Posted by Bloggeries in Health and Fitness
If you have ever tried to quit smoking, or are in the midst of it now, then you may want to stop in and have a look at the Reformed Smoker blog. The Reformed Smoker is a blog run by a former smoker who has just recently quit his 20 years, 20-a day smoking habit. The blogger is hoping the blog will anchor him in his quest to quit smoking, and will hopefully provide some focus for him as he works on the reformed aspect of the reformed smoker. The blogger has quit smoking using the “Cold Turkey” method, and at the time of review, had been going strong for 63 days. Find out what is going on in the mind of this reformed smoker, as he battles this quit and writes his recent bloggeries: Insane in the Brain, Living Colour, Get Your Skates On, Their Or There, Sixty, Open House, Lock up the Fags, Merry Christmas, Bloody Certifiable, Orange Crush, and Tripple Pizza.
The blog is a personal blog of sorts and is laid out as such, offering a nice clean layout and organization to the blog that makes navigation easy. Bloggeries are written in black text on a beige almost yellow background and links stand out nicely in red. Most bloggeries are associated with relevant pics. Bloggeries are left marginalized, and there is a right-sided navigation bar. In the right-sided navigation bar you will find buttons for contact or subscribing to the feeds, About page for Reformed Smoker, Search bar for Reformed Smoker, Countback Widget (to last cigarette), Widget to create your own quit smoking certificate, Video of the Week, Gym Activity Tracker, and Archive Menu that also lists Recent Posts within the current month’s archives.
This blog gets a 3.5/5 overall at this point, and I think that score is largely due to the fact that the blog is quite young. The blog has a certain essence of sparsity to it, as if there is something missing, but I think as the blog grows this will change. The blog scores well for content and for activity, as the bloggeries are written in a clean personal voice that connects with the readers well. The activity is very consistent as well with bloggeries coming in every day at this point. The navigation scores could be improved, and would be if there was more ‘blog meat’ in the navigation bar. If the blogger added a recent comments menu for example it may encourage more comments from the readers, but also I think a Categories Menu would improve navigation on this blog. The appearance scores are being affected strictly due to the lack of content and blog meat in the blog at this point. Also, the main page of the blog only has one bloggery listed on it, if the blogger added more bloggeries to be shown when the blog loads the blog would look a little more beefed up. Overall however, this is a fun blog to read, and if you are one about to join, or in the trenches, of the battle in quitting smoking, this blog may add some company to your misery.
-Chrissie
Posted by Bloggeries in Health and Fitness
Should you ever have any questions about Social Security Disability in the United States, you may want to check out The Disability Blog. where you will find a blog on disability matters from former claims specialist and blogger Tim Moore. Have a look at any of his recent bloggeries to see if your inquiries can be answered here: Social Security Disability – Kansas City Star article; Social Security Disability Las Vegas – KSL News; Waiting for Social Security Disability; Interesting News from Fed Blog; Disability Statistics from a UPI article; Social Security Disability in Indianapolis; Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid; Disability Increasing Faster Among Women, Bipolar Disability, Can you Receive Social Security Disability and Veterans Benefits; and Disability Judges Being Added?.
Navigation on this blog is very simple and straightforward. Posts are right marginalized with black text on white background and there is a left navigation system. The left navigation bar contains archives linked by individual date, recent posts menu, and a small about me spot. The blog does not contain much other than regular postings, so there is very little to navigate here. There are no pictures with the posts and the categories menu is missing as well. I think a blog with this kind of topic is broad enough to include a few categories so that readers could navigate directly to any specific questions they may have that do not fall under the previous posts menu. I also find the archives menu a little bulky by being organized by specific date and it would look much neater if it was organized monthly or even weekly.
I will give this blog a 3, there is very little to offer the readers here other than the bloggeries. I am not sure what the readership is, but the blog could definitely use a blogroll or a related links menu. I also think the blog would be a little more aesthetically appealing if pictures were offered with the content. The writing is very well done, comprehensive, and informative. To add to this, the blog is updated regularly which is always beneficial to any blog’s success. Even in the recent posts there is a wide range of topics covered that serves the readership well. I think these could be organized into categories if readers wish to look at specific topics down the road. The advertising is appropriately incorporated and not at all distracting to the readers so it should monetize the blog nicely. Navigation here is a little bland and simply because there is very little offered other than regular posting. The blog has a unique concept and the keywords are used effectively so with these few changes, I think this blog could do very well.
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- Chrissie
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