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If you are looking for more ways to make money online, and have not yet found a comprehensive website to do so, then you need to take a look at Empire Dot Com, a blog dedicated to revealing the insider secrets of making money online.  This emphasizes with fervence that the dot com industry is one that is only getting stronger. The blogger offers you a personalized about page including signature right on the home page where he discusses how he wants to teach his readers something that will take you and your Internet efforts to the next level.  He promises that this blog will give you powerful marketing knowledge that will help you move your business to the next level.  You can see this for yourself in any of his recent bloggeries:  How to Crank Out Quality Content for Your Readers to Come Back for More, Top Extremely Important and Powerful Tools You Should Have In Your Bag Pack, How to Write Killer Lead that Get your Prospect to Read your Ad, Extremely Powerful and Solid Information Articles to Remember, and The Four Marketing R’s That will Make You a Sniper Rifle.

The blog offers several navigation systems making it very easy to navigate.  The top system provides links to Home, Article Resource, Membership, Archives, and Contact Me. A sub top menu offers you Recent Posts Menu, Clickbank Ads, and how to subscribe to the RSS Feed.  In the right navigation system you will find Advertising, Entrecard, Recent Comments, Archives Menu, Blog Awards, and a comprehensive categories menu offering you categories such as Affilliate Marketing, Affilliate Tools, Atomic Blogging, Blogging, Copywriting, and Marketing Development among many more.  The blog’s appearance is bold and colorful, with large headlines in red and advertising that complements the blog content rather than distract from it. Though there are not many pictures associated with the bloggeries, the blog’s design and template compensates for that.

This blog will get a 4.4/5 from me, as it is an excellent resource and quite accomplished given its youth.  The blog is only a few months old, and offers content and navigation that is above par.  The bloggers conviction is strong and this is relayed in its content, appearance, navigation and organization of the blog.  Bloggeries are coming in daily for the most part with only one or two exceptions, and the content is in a strong, user-friendly personal voice that many marketers can relate to.  I do also like the personal touch of the about page with attached signature on the home page, as this makes the blogger readily accessible to his readers. Overall, this blog is an excellent example of how a business blog / internet marketing blog should look like, and I am sure that in the coming months this blogger will see much success and growth with his blog.

-Chrissie

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Submit Edge is exactly what it means to be in a Search Engine Optimization Blog, and offers you a wide range of tips, tricks, and services  for your SEO efforts.  There is very little about SEO that you won’t find on this blog.  You can see this for yourself in any of their recent bloggeries: Twenty Ways to Obtain Valuable One-Way Links, What Google Doesn’t Know about Spam, How Do I Get Links for my Website, The Future of SEO as a ROI Tool, and Why Deeplinking and Fresh Content are Important.

The website operates as a business, and not just as a blog, and thus offers a wide range of navigation systems.  There is a top navigation system dedicated to the company where you will find links to Home, Testimonials, Support, Company, SEO Resources, Affilliate, and Reseller.  In the left navigation system you will find a long menu of SEO services offered including Content Writing, SEO, Web Designing, and more.  In the right navigation bar you will find a Categories and an Archives Menu.   Categories for this blog are comprehensive given its niche, and these include a wide variety of topics including Google Universal, Google Webmaster Tools, Keyword, Link Building, RSS & SEO, SEO, Spam and SEO, XHTML, and SEO Content.  The Footer then offers you an additional navigation system with links to Home, SEO Tools, Site Map, Testimonial, Contact Us, Bulk Discount, Partner, and SEO Tips Blog.  The overall design of the blog is appealing with bloggeries in black text on white background and a bright blue border and theme.  Most of the bloggeries are textually based, with very few pictures associated.

I give this blog a 4 /5 for now, for me it was missing a few vital pieces of blog meat.  The appearance and navigation scores for this blog are very good with its organized template and clean design.  The content of the blog is well written and for the most part in a user-friendly voice that the average Internet reader can understand.  Activity is doing very well with bloggeries coming in daily.  Some key blog features that would benefit this blog would be menus such as a recent posts menu, and a recent comments menu. These menus both offer some connectivity to the readership, and as well provide additional ease with navigation.  I also don’t see an about page. While it is fairly obvious what the blog is about, to offer SEO services, blog readers do enjoy reading about pages and this is yet another tool blogs use to connect with their readership. It provides a more personal connection between the writer and the reader.  Also, this blog is reading more like a business website with services to sell rather than as an informational blog with an interest in sustaining readership, so I do think that the addition of some features to connect with the readers will improve the ‘blogability’ of this blog. Otherwise, for all intents and purposes it looks and reads like an excellent blog and should experience much success.

-Chrissie

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If you are looking for another blog that may offer you some fresh and professional opinions in the world of website management, have a look at the Nomad One, a blog that offers you advice from a strategically focused, ethically motivated, creative professional.  The blog is found on its own domain at and is owned and authored by an independent design and web consultant.  The blogger is a designer and graphics expert both online and offline, and also works in communications and marketing consulting.  He sees himself as a nomad, and is constantly migrating towards ‘a positive sustainable future’.  He feels he has a responsibility towards humanity to add value to others lives, and to be beneficial to people in order to help everyone create a beautiful future.  You can see this for yourself in the nomad’s recent bloggeries:  What’s this about then? About Us Pages and Their Purpose, VeloCITI Session #3 – An introduction to Finance, The benefits of a Free WordPress Website for Startups, Time to Refresh my GTD Approach with GTD inbox for gmail, Springwise: See-saw power for Schools,  WordPress Meetup #3 Planning Gains momentum, and The Benefits of a Free WordPress.com blog for startups .

Navigation on this site is interesting, as this site’s appearance looks more like  website than a blog per se.  There is regular posting, and these bloggeries are left marginalized.  Generally left marginalized blogs offer a right navigation system, however there is no right navigation system here and this space is left blank on the blog.  There are navigation buttons on the header to see services the blogger offers in design for web, logo, print, illustration, animation, and advertising.  The footer offers a navigation system where you will find social networking contacts, What I’m Doing menu, Search bar, Archives Menu, and a blogroll sorted by categories such as sustainability, creative, web, and so on.

I am giving this blog a 3/5 and primarily because this blog reads more like a resume and less like a blog thus affecting its blog score.  Because the blog is focused on promoting the blogger’s career and services, it is lacking a lot of the blog meat that makes a blog interesting to read.  This ultimately may be affecting the blog’s readership.  Appearance scores need help here as mentioned mainly because of the empty sidebars.  This leaves a lot of empty space on the blog that the blogger could use with some necessary blog meat.  The blog could use some menus such as a categories menu and recent posts menu for example to beef up the blog a little.  I also think the about page could be better read to indicate more what the blog offers as opposed to what the blogger himself offers in terms of services.  It is difficult to tell for example, other than resume purposes, what the blog is offering to the blog community. The content is well written however in a personal user friendly voice there, and if this is maintained the blogger will connect with his readers well.  However the activity is lacking with bloggeries having several days in between posts, and regular traffic will be more likely with regular activity.  Overall however, the blogger clearly has a lot to offer and if he organizes his blog a little bit better, he will be able to communicate that clearly to the blogosphere.

-Chrissie

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