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Bloggeries is going to look at another personal blog, and this blog is called Pinoy Dreamer.  Pinoy Dreamer is a blog that ‘started in dreams, and ended in reality’.  The blogger is a 20 year old blogger from the Philippines, and is currently working on his CPA.  He has been a writer since elementary school and has always enjoyed writing essays, sports reviews, and more.  The blogger wishes you will join him on his quest of making his dreams a reality. He has started from scratch and has not gained anything yet, but is still dreaming that his efforts will not be wasted.  He wishes you will join him and together he and his readers can make their dreams a reality.  You can see what he means by this by checking out any of his most recent bloggeries:  The after grad sentiments, Extending My Traffic Sources, PDmo#2, I’m Back, No More Monthly Hosting Bills for Me, I’ve Spent $7.15 for a New Blog, The Making of a CPA: Some Useful Tips to Consider, and How to Properly Account Your Blog’s Income Part 1: Recognizing Revenue.

The blog does have somewhat of a busy theme, and this compromises its navigation somewhat.  The blog offers a top navigation system, as well as two right marginalized navigation systems.  Bloggeries are left marginalized and are in black text on white background and the blog theme and animations almost have a comic book theme to it.  In the top navigation bar you will find links to the Home page, About, About Me, Contact Form, Free Pinoy Blog Reviews, Privacy Policy, and a Sitemap.  In the left sided navigation bar you will find some advertising and a categories menu that contains categories such as Blogging Issues, Business, Games, Humor, Internet, Lifestyle, Opinion, Politics, Religion, and more.  In the far right navigation bar you will find the blogroll, Archives Menu, and Recent Posts Menu.  Moving down you will find this blog also offers a navigation system in the footer. Here you will find quite a bit of blog meat that you may have missed such as Recent Posts, Recent Comments, Most Comments (Top Commentators), Recent Readers widget, Popular Entries, and more information about the blogger.

This blog will get a 2.6/5 for now, but I attribute this primarily to the fact that this is a fairly new blog and with some time and some tweaks this blog will do well.  From a navigation standpoint the blog is a little disorganized with so many navigation systems.  The top navigation bar offers two about pages, and one should be deleted to maintain a professional look.  In the first about page the reader is taken to a standard wordpress page and this should be deleted.  As for the about page itself, I am not quite sure what this blog is about. It appears to be a personal blog, but the blogger only writes about making dreams a reality and does not quite specify what the intention of the blog is.  The blogger needs to clarify this for his readers a little bit.  I did find more information about the blogger in the blog’s third about box, which is located in the footer of the blog. Unfortunately I did not see this until well into the review, and this may affect the blogger’s credibility with its readership if the readers can not connect fully with the blogger. Moving this will improve the visibility of the blogger as well.  The content is well written and in a strong personal voice that readers will identify with, but activity is weak with content coming in with a week or more in between bloggeries.  For such a young blog, I do recommend much more regular, if not daily, bloggeries to bring in traffic and to sustain the credibility of the blogger.  This blog however does offer a lot of potential, and with a little organization it could be a very good blog for its readership. Finally I noticed many ad spots available; you may wish to try our blog directory affiliate program.

– Chrissie

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If you are looking for another website that offers you tips and tricks of the trade of making money online, than you may want to have a look at Kiviniar’s blog. The owner of the blog is Kiviniar, a 24 year old who writes from India, and left his full-time job in December 2007 to earn a living online.  Kiviniar is also seeking an MBA in Marketing, and will see that dream come true in about a year and a half.  Kiviniar has spent a lot of time building websites and making money from them, but he is taking it to the next level by blogging about it in his goal to become the New Age Webmaster.  He enjoys building websites, but wants to use his blog to interact with peers and to help some newbies along the way.  At Kiviniar’s blog you will find updates on the best money making opportunities on the web, as well as web technologies or anything else he may find interesting or even controversial.  Find out more about Kiviniar’s blog by reading any of his recent bloggeries:  Voxant Newsroom CPM Rates for March; Bloggers Need Advice, Up Start; Time to Moan Again: Frustration or Ecstasy; Getting Started with Affiliate Marketing, and Free WordPress Themes at Sutra Skins.com.

The blog is well organized and neatly laid out which makes it easy to navigate.  Bloggeries are left marginalized and there are two right navigation systems as well as a top navigation system.  To note, this blog is better viewed in Firefox.  Bloggeries are in black text on white background and links are highlighted in a light turquoise.  In the top navigation system you will find links to the Home page, Glossary, About page, Contact page, Forums, and Free Directory.  The left navigation bar offers you advertising, Webmaster Tools Menu, The List Galore, Tag Cloud, Categories Menu, Archives Menu, and a My blog log visitors widget.  Categories you will find on this blog are things like Affiliate  programs, Announcements, Cash Cow, Contests, CPM Programs, Freebies, Glossary, Java Script, Paid Blogging, PHP Scripts and so many more.  In the far right navigation bar you will find the blog meat – Recent Posts Menu, Recent Comments Menu, Highest Rates Posts, Blogroll, Contact Info, Family and Friends List, and stats menu for how many readers are online at Kiviniar’s blog right now.

This blog gets a 4/5 as it scores very well on just about every count.  The blog is well organized and contains all of the essential blog materials thus making it very easy to navigate.  The blog is simply laid out with a clean design so it scores well for appearance as well.  The only change I would make to the appearance is the ads located within each post.  They may be a little distracting to some readers if they are confronted with ads within every bloggery.  The blog is unique in its own right, so it scores well there as well.  The content scores well as it is well-written and the techniques and tips are given in a user-friendly voice that most bloggers will appreciate.  The activity however could use some work as bloggeries are coming in every few days at most, and the most recent bloggery is about a week old.  The blogger will  need to be a little more active in order to sustain his readership. Otherwise however, this is a well organized blog with user friendly content, and thus, it should sustain a healthy readership over time.

-Chrissie

Bloggeries is going to look at another money making blog today, and this one is called Minty Money – Online Money Making Help Source. The blog does not have an author profile or about page, but it does appear to be a money making blog. The blogger uses standard money making services to make money on the Internet, and offers information and advice on these services. You can get a feel for how this blogger makes money on the Internet by reviewing any of his recent bloggeries: Website Name and Feed Changed, Referral News, Use MyBlogLog, Please Don’t Blog, and The Clickbot Fraud.

The blog is fairly young so there is really not much to it at this point. This normally makes it somewhat easy to navigate, but the blog does have some navigation concerns. Currently the formatting is set for only one post at a time appearing on the main page, and I do suggest the blogger change this setting to allow for a more blog-like look with at least a few more bloggeries on the page. If readers are looking for older posts, it will take them a long time to do so, and they will not likely stick around to keep clicking until they find them. The other navigation concern right now is that the Home link in the Header navigation bar does not work. It clicks back to the former website for the blogger with a ‘Page Not Found’ error. The blogger definitely wants to fix this as unworkable links are never good for the success of a website.

Bloggeries are left marginalized and are in black text on white background with links highlighted in blue. There is a right navigation system that contains subscription information, Content List (Archives Menu), Recent Posts Menu, and a menu for step-by-step signups for services such as Feedburner, Gmail, and blogroll. There is currently no categories menu which I attribute to the youth of the blog, but there are labels attached to posts. Currently labels look like ‘Feed Address Changed’ or ‘Website name changed’ and I recommend the blogger change these labels to searchable terms that the search engines would pick up. I also recommend the blogger add an About page or profile as this will enable the readers to connect purpose and vision to his blog a little bit better. Again, due to the youth of the blog, it is a little difficult to get a real grasp on what the blogger is looking for.

This blog definitely needs some growth and some work, and thus I am going with a 2/5 at this point. The blog does well for content and appearance, and at this point these seem to be its saving graces as the rest of the blog needs some cleaning up. There have been some issues the blogger needs to work on already discussed, so I would suggest the blogger start there. I also think if the blogger updates a little more frequently than he may see some additional traffic as well. Overall, I think this blog has a great running start, and with some advice out of a review, it may be just what the blogger needs to get his site rolling with some good readership.