Your opinion about my blog

[midwest]

I started a blog almost 3 months ago. It is about making money online blogging or through other various methods ( which are legal and not scams ). The name of the blog is "My PPC Advertising" and a post various topics on it. I don't talk just about pay per click (PPC) advertising..I'm offering free traffic tips, free Google Adsense and Adwords tips, I tell people what money making opportunities should try and which are just a waste of time and many more other interesting topics.
I would like to know what do you think about it. Just take a couple of minutes of your time to visit it and tell me your opinion. Thanks.

My PPC Advertising

[Swift]

I guess the content is all good. Didnt read much just skimp through one or two articles. What I am most worried for you is about placing both google adsense's ads with bidvertiser's. Its against the TOS of adsense and you might get banned you know that? So its either you remove adsense's ads or bidvertiser's. Correct me if I am wrong.

[Zhuli]

Just a thought : the template is nice but the blog took really long to load (and I have good speed). It froze at one point : you might have too many widgets and buttons in the sidebars...

[midwest]

Originally Posted by Swift

I guess the content is all good. Didnt read much just skimp through one or two articles. What I am most worried for you is about placing both google adsense's ads with bidvertiser's. Its against the TOS of adsense and you might get banned you know that? So its either you remove adsense's ads or bidvertiser's. Correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks for the review Swift. It's interesting what you've told me, about not using bidvertiser ads along with google adsense ads..it's the first time I hear this. Now I don't say you're wrong or anything like that, but as far as I know, bidvertiser ads are not contextual ads. Furthermore, I've checked on Google and found a forum where someone asked if he can place Google Adsense ads on the same page or site with Bidv. ads. And the answer was yes If you'd like to see that forum topic, here's the link: NamePros.Com - Bidvertiser and Google Adsense
Cheers

[midwest]

Originally Posted by Zhuli

Just a thought : the template is nice but the blog took really long to load (and I have good speed). It froze at one point : you might have too many widgets and buttons in the sidebars...

Hi Zhuli and thanks for taking a look at my blog. Indeed, sometimes the blog may load a bit slower and that because of the widgets and probably because of the traffic that Blogger servers receive. Usually, it is not loading that slow, but it happens Thanks again for your time and have a nice day/night

[Swift]

Sorry my bad then. =) Its great to clarify things though. I have learnt something today so yeah.

[midwest]

There's no problem. We all have to learn new things every day, isn't it? There are things that we do not know, so it is a great thing to clarify them, as you said

[Cryspatus]

The page took a while to load. Its probably from the different icons you have up. Unless they are giving you traffic or PR its not worth it to have so many icons, it makes the page look cluttered and slows down load time. You have good content though, its pretty useful and entertaining. I would really consider cleaning up the side bar though.

[midwest]

Originally Posted by Cryspatus

The page took a while to load. Its probably from the different icons you have up. Unless they are giving you traffic or PR its not worth it to have so many icons, it makes the page look cluttered and slows down load time. You have good content though, its pretty useful and entertaining. I would really consider cleaning up the side bar though.

Thanks for visiting my blog. I will remove any unnecessary icons as soon as I'll start getting more traffic. I won't keep all the things I have now in the sidebar for ever. What is worth to be kept, will remain. What is just making the blog load slow, will go

[solidsnake0328]

I didn't have any issues with the loading time of your site. So that is fine with me, well it is loading faster than my site anyway.

The first thing that everyone would see when they visit your site is not the sites loading time, not the design, not the content but its the domain of your site. The first I see when I visit your site is the '.blogspot.com' on your domain. If you intend on taking your site up another level, you should consider getting your own domain. I too once had a blogger account but I've deleted it away. It may be difficult for you since you've already been working on your site for 3 months but it better be done now rather than few years down the road. By getting your own domain name you would be able to brand your blog. As a John Chow reader, I suppose I would show you a post where he touch on this issue, here.

Second issue I would have is the sidebar. There is just too many things on it! Clear any unnecessary thing especially those buttons. Seeing so many ads may turn some people off also. Keep only things that would help enhance the content of your site.

Thirdly but not least is the font size. I would say that it would need 1 or 2 pt bigger. Currently its too small for my liking.

Lastly I would say that the search engine should be placed at the top where it is more visible for the reader. This would encourage readers to search for articles on your blog which means that they would dwell deeper into your blog and spend more time on it.

I guess thats all I have for you now Keep working on it.