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