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If you are looking for some additional tools to track your current website or blog’s success, then you may want to stop in at the blog for Conversion Stats. This blog is for the company known as Conversion Stats located in Hayneville, Alabama.  The goal of the company is to provide you with an efficient conversion tracking system that will allow you to succeed in Internet Marketing.  At Conversion Stats, you can use their tools to gain access to first rate analytics and statistical reporting for things that are happening on your website.  Using these tools, you can study the dynamics of the development of your website or blog, and see just how successful your marketing campaigns are.  The blog for Conversion Stats makes it a little more personal, by offering you articles and tips on how to maximize your blog or website success.  Find out for yourself what Conversion Stats has to offer by checking out any of their most recent bloggeries:  Shopping Cart Optimization, The Web Analytics ABC, SEO Campaign Tracking: What to Start With; Promoting Your Website: Off-page Optimization; Web Analytics Methods For Your Business, Website Analysis: Some Like it Hot; and How to Measure your Websites’ Success.

The blog is run by a professional company, and as such it offers the same clean layout that the company website offers.  Bloggeries are in black text on white background with links highlighted in black for headlines, and in red for all other links.  In the top navigation bar you will find links to Home, Overview, Demo, Pricing, About page, Contact page, and a log out page.  Bloggeries are left marginalized and there is a right sided navigation bar.  In the right navigation bar you will find links to the About page, Archives Menu, Categories Menu, and Blogroll.  The blog is very small, only a few months old at this point, so there is not much blog meat to it yet, but it is growing.  The categories you will find in this blog are Pay Per Click and Website Analytics.  Most bloggeries are associated with relevant pictures, and the headlines for each bloggery are in a nice big font, so you really can’t miss them.

I will give this blog a 3.2/5  at this point, though I do suspect it will be a very successful blog and would score higher in the future.  The blog scores well for appearance and navigation, as well as for a unique concept to the world of making money online.  The content is done well and in a user-friendly voice that makes the applications and techniques discussed easily understood by the reader.  The activity could use some more frequency, as bloggeries are quite frequently several days apart, even more than a week in some cases.  For a new blog I would suggest daily activity just to give the search engines a consistent flow of ‘food’ content.  The blog being so new also looks a little sparse in the navigation bar, and I might suggest adding some standard ‘blog meat’ menus to fill up that space.  Things like Recent Posts or Recent Comments would make a great difference here.  Also, I would suggest the addition of more categories, as the bloggeries that are currently displayed on the home page could easily be spread across a number of categories given their keyword friendly headlines.  By adding more categories the blog would again, attract the search engines with those keyword friendly terms. Finally I’d recommend they change their title from their website URL to something more descriptive like “Conversion Stats Internet Marketing Blog“. Overall however, it’s a good blog and professionally laid out.  For a blog stemming from a business concept, this should do very well over time.

-Chrissie

If you are a mom, then you will appreciate the sentiments that you will find at The Parenting Diaries.  The Parenting Diaries is exactly what it sounds like – a blog about parenting.  The blogger is writing her way through the joys and journeys of parenting, and it is most definitely a personal blog.  The blogger describes the blog as an honest to goodness account of the joys of motherhood, its bumps on the road, and the joy her child has brought to her life since 2003.  She also speaks of nothing but love for her daughter, who is described as the inspiration and strength she herself gets everyday.  You can get to know this blogger and her daughter a little more through any of her recent bloggeries:  The Experiment, I should get a Tattoo on my Forehead, Welcome to the Ultimate Blog Party, Falling Sick Has No Perfect Time, 24 K Gold, Talking About My Lines of Valor, He Just Wouldn’t Quit It, Time Travel, and How Would You Interpret This.

The blog is well organized in a clean layout that makes blog navigation very easy.  Bloggeries are centralized and there is both a left and right navigation bar.  Bloggeries are black text on beige background and the blog is bordered in a soft orange with links highlighted in deep rustic color.  The color scheme and theme is very warm and inviting, excellent choices for this type of blog.  In the left navigation bar you will find a blog calendar, Recent Posts Menu, and a stats counter.  In the right navigation bar you will find the RSS button, Archives Menu, and blogroll.  All bloggeries are accompanied by relevant pictures which add meaning to the bloggeries, and make the blog aesthetically appealing overall.

I give this blog a 4.5/5 as it scores very well on all accounts.  This is a blog I found myself wandering in between posts and activity, which for me is always a sign of a good blog.  The content is well done with the personal voice you would expect in a personal blog.  You can truly get to know the blogger well from her writings.  Activity gets perfect scores as well, this blogger is truly dedicated and writes in every day.  The appearance of the blog is very well done, with no distractions and in a theme that is warm and inviting to its visitors.  Navigation is also very easy on this blog.  I would suggest moving the two navigation bars into one however, as there is a lot of space on both navigation bars which could be made better use of by filling that space up a bit.  I also think a categories menu would be beneficial to this blog to organize it a little more.  Overall however, I enjoyed reading this blog and I think it could sustain a healthy readership over time.

-Chrissie

If you are looking for some practical advice from another blog about making money, then you really want to stop and check out EzMoney.  The bloggers here are fully aware that they are a fish in a school of make money online blogs, however, they want to create a more practical blog for bloggers that wish to make money.  EzMoneyOn.Net is run by two bloggers and is geared to be a place where you will find different ways to make money online, in simple presentations.  Some of the methods found here have been tried by these bloggers, and some of them are tried as they go along their blogging experiences.  Either way, their process is published on their blog as are their results.  To see how these bloggers are doing with their money making experiences, be sure to check out any of their most recent bloggeries: Easy money on the Net?; Free Banner Ads For You: Project WonderFree, Batch 6; Link O Rama: Get Links From Blog Carnivals; What is RSS?; How Much Money can One Make Online With Smorty; Entrecard: Free Advertising which Drives Free Traffic To Your Blog; and Bidvertiser: I month’s report.

The blog is well organized and thus has a clean template that is easy to navigate.  Bloggeries are in black text on white background with a distinct ‘green’ header which to me, subconsciously makes me think of money.  A great theme for the blog, nonetheless.  Bloggeries are left marginalized and there are two navigation bars.  In the left navigation bar you will find a menu with links to different pages, Categories Menu, and an Archives Menu.  In the far right navigation bar you will find subscription information, Ads, Featured Posts Menu, Recent Posts Menu, and the  Recent Comments Menu.  Most of the bloggeries are textual, but the odd post does contain a relevant picture associated with it.  

Overall, I give this blog a 4/5  The blog scores well on all scoring criteria.  For navigation the blog does well as it contains all major essentials of blog materials, and thus making it easy to navigate.  The blog has good user friendly and easy to read content as well, which gives it some solid credibility for a money making blog.  Appearance wise the blog does do okay, though I suggest it add more pictures to the bloggeries.  To me right now it just seems a little too texty, and some pictures would give the posts a little more life.  I also think there is too much white space right now in the navigation bars.  I would suggest either reducing the number of posts on the main page, or moving the navigation bars into one main navigation bar system.  Overall however, the blog has a lot to offer and presents itself well enough to do so.  For those looking for a blog about making money, this one has a wealth of practical tips to do so.

-Chrissie