If you are looking for that little something to mix up your blog a little bit, and really, who isn’t, check out Pure Blogging – Blogging Tips, News and Tutorials. This site is so far the most comprehensive blogging blogs that I have seen yet. This blog is relatively new, but is geared towards publishing blogging news, tips, and tutorials and is intended for anyone interested in learning the secrets of blogging success and monetization. The owner of the blog, David Culpepper, is actually a full time chemist who works this blog in his free time to keep you updated about breaking technology developments, strategies, and the general blogosphere buzz in a user friendly format. Check out any of his recent articles to see what I am talking about: More Blog Contests, Effects of the 1000th Comment Contest, We have a Winner, Pure Blogging Goes Mobile, Contest Update 2 — $200 Cash Giveaway, June Roundup, Weekend Links, AOL Gets a New Look, The Bloglines Train, and Contest Update for the $200 Giveaway.
Navigation on this site is very straightforward, but if you are a blogger looking for advice, set aside some time for this one. You will want to spend some time here, as David has a LOT to offer you. There are 3 navigation bars, and posts are left marginalized. The first nav bar is on the top and offers the Home page, About page, Subscription Links, Top Posts, Archives, Links, and a Contact Button. I love the Archive link here, wish more blogs had them set up like this. The archives are not only categorized by link and date, but by topic as well. It doesn’t get any easier than that. You will then find two right navigation bars, and I could spend a lot of time telling you exactly what is there, but check it out yourself and you will be glad you did. Top features I will mention are the “Top Commenters†menu, where David offers links to top commenters in his blog in these bars, which I think is an excellent way to recognize and connect with your readers. There is a long list of categories and money makers for your blog each containing a huge amount of resources for your blog. These include but are not limited by blogging tips, blogging news, blogging tools, alexa, monetization, blog promotion etc… You can also read here about featured authors on the site. Oh, and here’s something else I haven’t seen yet, a menu with links to the most recent comments, fresh idea and I love it.
This blog is getting a 5 from me, I have no suggestions FOR this author but will happily take some of his for myself. I am very surprised to find out that this blog has only been around a few months, you would never guess by the layout, content, navigation, or appearance of this blog. The readership of 389 also speaks volumes to the blog success. What I love most about this blog besides its stellar content and user friendly material for the novice blogger, is this blog is dedicated to the reader. This is a lesson learned for all bloggers who spend so much time working on monetization strategies that they forget they are blogging to an audience. I love how readers are recognized through the top commenters menu and that active links are up for these comments. That this may be a result of the 1000 comment contest is irrelevant (though that in itself is an EXCELLENT idea *hint hint*). The blogger has worked very hard at establishing a solid and excellent reader base, and I think has several valuable lessons to teach all of us.
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– Chrissie
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