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Posted by Bloggeries in Reviews, Spotlight, Internet Marketing, Blogging
If you are looking for that little something to mix up your blog a little bit, and really, who isn’t, check out Pure Blogging - Blogging Tips, News and Tutorials. This site is so far the most comprehensive blogging blogs that I have seen yet. This blog is relatively new, but is geared towards publishing blogging news, tips, and tutorials and is intended for anyone interested in learning the secrets of blogging success and monetization. The owner of the blog, David Culpepper, is actually a full time chemist who works this blog in his free time to keep you updated about breaking technology developments, strategies, and the general blogosphere buzz in a user friendly format. Check out any of his recent articles to see what I am talking about: More Blog Contests, Effects of the 1000th Comment Contest, We have a Winner, Pure Blogging Goes Mobile, Contest Update 2 — $200 Cash Giveaway, June Roundup, Weekend Links, AOL Gets a New Look, The Bloglines Train, and Contest Update for the $200 Giveaway.
Navigation on this site is very straightforward, but if you are a blogger looking for advice, set aside some time for this one. You will want to spend some time here, as David has a LOT to offer you. There are 3 navigation bars, and posts are left marginalized. The first nav bar is on the top and offers the Home page, About page, Subscription Links, Top Posts, Archives, Links, and a Contact Button. I love the Archive link here, wish more blogs had them set up like this. The archives are not only categorized by link and date, but by topic as well. It doesn’t get any easier than that. You will then find two right navigation bars, and I could spend a lot of time telling you exactly what is there, but check it out yourself and you will be glad you did. Top features I will mention are the “Top Commenters” menu, where David offers links to top commenters in his blog in these bars, which I think is an excellent way to recognize and connect with your readers. There is a long list of categories and money makers for your blog each containing a huge amount of resources for your blog. These include but are not limited by blogging tips, blogging news, blogging tools, alexa, monetization, blog promotion etc… You can also read here about featured authors on the site. Oh, and here’s something else I haven’t seen yet, a menu with links to the most recent comments, fresh idea and I love it.
This blog is getting a 5 from me, I have no suggestions FOR this author but will happily take some of his for myself. I am very surprised to find out that this blog has only been around a few months, you would never guess by the layout, content, navigation, or appearance of this blog. The readership of 389 also speaks volumes to the blog success. What I love most about this blog besides its stellar content and user friendly material for the novice blogger, is this blog is dedicated to the reader. This is a lesson learned for all bloggers who spend so much time working on monetization strategies that they forget they are blogging to an audience. I love how readers are recognized through the top commenters menu and that active links are up for these comments. That this may be a result of the 1000 comment contest is irrelevant (though that in itself is an EXCELLENT idea *hint hint*). The blogger has worked very hard at establishing a solid and excellent reader base, and I think has several valuable lessons to teach all of us.
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- Chrissie
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If you are new to blogging you probably have a lot of questions. How do I start? What do I do? How do I get people reading my stuff? Well, I can pretty much guarantee you that any of those questions and more will be answered here at Dummies Guide to Google Blogger Beta. Open the page and you will be greeted with many opportunities to join the site via feed or subscription. You can also peruse through some of the most recent posts: Blog and Ping to Attract the Search Spiders, Remove NoFollow Attribute on Comments, The Ultimate Blogger Wordpress Comparison Guide, Blog Backlinks Chart in Technorati, Where is Site Traffic Coming From?, and Picture in Blogger Header – Update to name a few. I think if there is anything blog related, particularly google blogger related, you should be able to find the information here. Whether you are looking for graphic information, posting information, writing help, marketing your blog help, and so on, it’s all here. Those that run this blog have clearly been doing it for a long time, and you can see by their stats that they are doing pretty good at it. So the information they provide seems fairly credible.
Navigation on this site however is going to cause you some issues. I was not sure if it was my machine or the site, so I tried it on another machine and same problem. The site literally shut down my IE more than once. The site is extremely busy, and by that I mean, busy. There is advertising all over the place, and while I stumbled on some great information during the time that I could actually roam the site, I really had to dig for it. Mind you, if you are tossing the idea in your head to join the feed or subscribe, this blog gives you more than enough opportunities to do so, almost everything you read in fact on this site is a selling endorsement for the blog. In the left bar you will find a giant RSS Feed Reader subscription button that is so big it is the first thing your eyes will go to when you open the blog, then you will see standard counter widgets, ads ads ads, email subscription box, copyscape button, contact button, donation link offering three convenient methods to give them money, and did I mention the site has some advertising? Here in the left bar you can also find some blog resource links: header, ad free blog, autopinger, avatar maker, barcode maker, and so on. The right navigation bar is fairly standard, recent posts and even most popular posts so you can see by clearly defined title what posts have been the most useful. I did not look at every link, but the one I did go to was basically a wordpress vs. blogger comparison and the table that showed up on my screen was not complete, so I do say again, there are some serious formatting problems with the site.
The site is getting a 2.8 from me, only because I just found it very difficult to read. Also given that it shut down my IE, not only did I NOT want to subscribe, but I didn’t even want to stay there any longer than I had to. The site is so busy and spends so much time selling themselves, the content got a little lost as well. However when going through some posts, I found the writing to be very user friendly and well done for a blogger’s guide. The posts explain things to you like you are a two year old which is exactly what you need when you are just starting out in the very confusing world of blogging. I think this blog has a lot of resources and could be very valuable to a blogger, but some reformatting needs to happen before I would bookmark it.
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- Chrissie
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Posted by Bloggeries in Reviews, Spotlight, Internet Marketing, SEO, Entrepreneurship
If you are looking for some tools for your Internet Marketing Campaign, stop into the V7 Search Marketing News. What are you going to find here, you ask? Well, when it comes to Internet Marketing, or doing any kind of web work or Internet Business, the list is pretty comprehensive and it would take me less time to tell you what you WON’T find here. You won’t find the kitchen sink, and you won’t find anything that is NOT related to Internet Business. Clears it right up for you, doesn’t it? The V7 is an outstanding collection of Internet Business related materials. I keep wanting to use the term Internet Marketing, which you will find here, but it doesn’t stop there. There is material here for the web host, web master, graphic designer, advertiser, newbie, novice, and even the guru can pick up a few resources from this site. What amazes me is the time and trouble the owners and authors have taken to make this site so comprehensive on so many levels. The owners believe “that the Internet is more than a medium…more than a marketplace… is a community… of real people sharing real experiences in real time”. You can see evidence of this in their most recent posts, which are all examples of real life experiences, reviews, and what has or has not worked for them: Facebook Platform: A Brilliant Move; Thank you, Aaron (in reference to Aaron Wall’s SEO Book); Twitter Sucks, AdSense Monitoring, Want to See Which Sources Are Ranked Highest in Google News?, Googles Vulnerabiity: AdSense; How to Get Traffic From Directories, Google Trends Showing Daily….Trends; Google Killing AdSense Accounts, and Quality Referrals just to name a few. Again, from font to Facebook and everything in between, there is a resource for everyone that is trying to make money on the Internet, on this site.
Navigation on this site is extremely straightforward. The top navigation bar contains a list of links each of which could be its own site in itself: script directories, SEO blog, about page, graphics page, market place (a classified ads listing of sorts), and book reviews ( a very comprehensive listing of several marketing books out there. To the left you will find a forums menu where you can meet any of the posters on marketing, google, SEO, web design, coding, hosting, any number of forums really. There should be something there that will interest you. You will also find the book review menu that lists each of the books they have reviewed individually, a valuable tool if you are thinking of picking up some literature to expand your knowledge base (which is never a bad idea). There is an extensive Blogroll, Editorials menu, directory menu, hosting menu, and my personal favorite The Technology Blog. This was the most interesting to me only because I don’t quite involve myself in I – Business, thus proving this site proving an interest level to anyone. Here you can read about the $20 K MP3 player, and the $1 million dollar jewel encrusted PC which does not come near topping the 1.3 million dollar cell phone. Intrigued? Thought you would be.
I am going to give this one a 5, far be it from me to instruct leaders in the field on how to do their jobs. The postings here are relevant and frequent, and (something I don’t find often) short and to the point. “Twitter Sucks“, seriously, no more needed to be said. The appearance is appealing, standard, but there is nothing that distracts from the content of the site. Navigation is so easy you would have to be blind not to figure out how to go from one place to the next, and the content is spectacular. Comprehensive, well-written, and these guys show not just through their words but by example that they want you to do well. If you are in business online, this is a keeper, bookmark it today! Did you enjoy this review? Click here to get your own blog reviewed!
- Chrissie
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For today’s blog review we have another Internet Marketing blog, “Self Made Minds - Earning by Learning“. If you own a blog or run a website, this one is worth checking out. It IS another Internet Marketing blog, but it is not JUST another money making site. I promise you that you will get something valuable from this website even if you can’t drop in for more than a few minutes. Self Made Minds is the baby of two Internet entrepreneurs Al and Scott. Their goal of this “earning by learning” blog is to share with you, the Internet Marketer, what has and has not worked for them along the way. Both of them are true entrepreneurs with neither of them paying credence to the 9-5 rat race, and this blog as well as their other websites is what puts their “bread and beer on the table”. Even if you aren’t trying to make money on the Internet, take some time to go through some of their recent posts: “Well it works on my machine”, “How to value a site”, “Stumble on, and on, and on”, “Organic links and how to get them”, “Finding Traffic Domains”, and so many more. If you do so, you will understand why one of their sites is valued at 2.308 million dollars, a self-described “bloody massive slight over estimate” in their opinion. But if you view some of their work, you will see why they are so highly regarded. The goal of this site is to show by example, and they do just that, proving how self made their minds really are.
Navigation on this site is straightforward. If you are looking for something specific, you will either find it very quickly, or it won’t be listed on the site. If that happens to be the case, be sure to drop them a note about it. They value their readers input and take it seriously, as you will see from their opening page and how they have been responding to readers comments. However if you are into Marketing online, you should not have a problem finding an answer to any of your questions in the Adsense, Blogging, Building Traffic, Business News, Domains, History of a $100 K Site (theirs, by the way), Miscellaneous, Money Making Tips, Online Business Ideas, and Site News Categories. Their understanding of the importance of content is palpable simply from their own writing, and the credence they give to their current guest author Jason Rickard. The posts here are well-written, such that you get the immediate impression that these opinions are professionally derived, but they are not pure business speak. The content is extremely user friendly, enjoyable to read, and appropriately humorous when called for. Further, it is clear that they have a solid and loyal readership judging from the amount of comments each of their posts contains. That alone gives a substantial credibility to this website.
I am going to go with a 4.8 here. The content is very unique, this site definitely sets itself apart from other Internet Marketing blogs. Navigation and appearance marks also score very well. Activity is so excellent, that no improvements are needed there. For two very busy guys, they are extremely dedicated to ensuring the success of this website. The only suggestion I would make is to shorten the blog posts just a smidge. I understand the reason their posts are the length that they are, as it is difficult to provide quality, unique content in just a paragraph or two, however I found them very long and was not able to get through the entirety of a few posts. Not that I didn’t find them interesting, just my attention was not maintained and found myself wandering to other areas of the site. However, if you are an Internet Marketer you may feel different. I urge you to go check it out, and can pretty much guarantee you will not walk away without at least one new idea for your Marketing campaigns.
- Chrissie
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