If you are considering Texas for a vacation this year, you may want to have a look at the Texas Vacations Blog. On this blog you will find posts centered around the Lone Star State and information on everything there is to see and do for your Texas vacation. Check out any of the recent bloggeries for a sample on Texas vacation information: Watch TPWD (Texas Parks & Wildlife Departments) Videos Onine Free, Summer is a Great Time to Travel Texas, Laredo Hotel Earns Top Accolades, and Development about to Alter Coastal Getaway Port Aransas. Each post contains blog content as well as an attachment to the latest PR Newswire with all of the latest information on Texas vacations. There is little information about the actual blogger, but if you wish to get more information you can use the contact information located in the right navigation bar.
The first thing I will say about this blog is that navigation is nothing less than awkward. The posts themselves have headlines without links which makes it difficult to move around the site or go to direct posts. Posts are left marginalized with black text on white background and there is a right navigation bar. In the right navigation bar you will see a small blurb for an “About Me†section, with no information on the blogger (s?) themselves. You will also find AdSense, and recommendations for books and links as well as an archive menu. Each post contains tags or labels, but there is no recent posts menu or categories menu. Further, the posts themselves have newswire attachments which seem to be the bulk of the content of the blog. The newswires have been pasted into the blog posts bodies, with very little actual blogging taking place.
I am leaving this one with a 1, there are too many navigation issues that affect all other criteria bringing down the overall mark. The blog has little to no activity. There are four months listed in the archive menu for the blog that has been active since February 2006. I do see some activity picking up over the last few weeks, but it is not anything that I am comfortable calling regular at this point. There are some obvious menus missing from the navigation system which make an already weak blog weaker to navigate – recent posts, categories, etc. I think a blog of this niche would do very well with defined categories such as dining, accommodations, and things of vacations nature. I also think a vacation blog would do very well with appropriate pictures relevant to the topics at hand. There is no personal voice to this blog, and the blogger offers no information about themselves as the author or purpose of the blog. The content follows this impersonal theme by consisting almost primarily of newswires that are not of the blogger’s creation. I think this blog needs more than a few tweaks to bring some personality to it which would ultimately increase or even develop the readership. If it is able to make those changes, I think this niche would give it the success and growth it needs.
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