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With both NHL and NBA playoffs in full throttle, Bloggeries is looking at a sports blog today, and this sports blog is known as the Southern Sports Beat. Here the sports junkie will find all that they need to know that is sports, as this is the place where four opinionated bloggers write about every sport imaginable.  To see this for yourself, take a moment to look at any of their recent bloggeries:  Hockey Playoffs; Why the World Should be Yankess Fans;  Please Save Josh!!; Diamonds are Forever, and so is Ric Flair; The Future of Duke Basketball; One Shining Moment; and The Greatest Final Four?

The blog is fairly young and so at this point is all about content.  Thus with little blog meat the blog is easily navigated.  Bloggeries are right marginalized and there is a left navigation system.  Bloggeries are in black text on white background and links are highlighted in orange.  In the left navigation system you will find a Sports Poll, Pick a Topic Pick an Author Menu (Categories Menu), Links Menu, Recent Visitors Widget, and Archives Menu.  The Categories Men is comprehensive where you can do just as it says, meet any of its authors – Bigdog, Hot Route, Jeff, or Justin; or read about any sport – Liberty Patriots, MLB, Nascar, NBA, NCAA Basketball, NFL, NHL, or WWE.  Each bloggery is associated with a relevant sports related picture adding meaning to the blog.

This blog will get a 3.1/5 for this review, and this score is largely attributed to the blog’s youth.  There is very little blog meat and content within the blog, and for a new blog, this does not bode well.  The blog scores well on appearance with a clean and well organized template.  For navigation the blog does okay, though a few more blog essentials would spice up this blog.  The blog for example has healthy activity from its readers with many comments coming in with every post, thus a Recent Comments menu would be some great blog meat the blog could add to connect with its readership.  Activity is weak at this point, for a two month old blog there is very little activity.  This blog could beef that up with playoff season in two major leagues in full swing.  The blog also needs a healthier About Page, or an About Page in general and again, this would serve the purpose of connecting with its readership.  Right now the About information is in a short paragraph located below the header.  Using an About Page to recognize and profile its contributing Authors would add a tremendous appeal to this sports blog. Overall, this sports blog looks comprehensive and offers definite potential to the sports fan. With a few tweaks, this could be a very successful blog, even in the off-season. 

-Chrissie

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You really can never get too much education from other people’s experiences, and Affiliate Confession is a blog that is guaranteed to prove that theory. Meet Alan, the blogger, who has set up Affiliate Confession as a means of telling you about his journey of network marketing, affiliate marketing, and working from home for the past 3.5 years. The blog is a little different than most make money blogs however, and is going to give you a no-holds barred approach to affiliate marketing. You will learn some value and tips from Alan, but he will be honest about how difficult affiliate marketing is, and how the ‘gurus’ are really loading you a bunch of ‘crap’ with their advice. Alan is not holding back about affiliate marketing or anything else. He tells you the whole story, and because he has been at it for a while, he knows how you can make an honest $2500 a month. See how he does it through his most recent bloggeries: Build a Niche Store v3.0 Update, Work is Progressing on New Custom WordPress Theme, Why I Like The Ebay Affiliate Program, Lessons in Perseverance Part 4, Should I Start a Blog or Build a Website? and Take the 30 Day Blogging Challenge.

Although there is some work in progress on the site’s theme and design change, the site currently offers a clean appearance with well-organized template that makes navigation very easy. Bloggeries are left marginalized and there are two right sided navigation bars. Bloggeries are in black text on white background and links stand out (but not too much so) in a bold red color. In the left sided navigation bar, you will find advertising, Categories Menu, and an Archives Menu. The Categories Menu offers just about everything you would expect in an affiliate marketing blog, and includes information on advertising, affiliate programs, clickbank, commission junction, contests, ebooks, AdSense, AdWords, and so many more. In the far right navigation bar there is subscription information, Entrecard, advertising, and a Top Commenters menu. Most bloggeries are accompanied with some sort of relevant picture or advertising to give meaning to the post.

I will go with a 4.6/5 for this one. Right off the bat, I really liked the concept of the blog, and the honest approach of the blogger. This kind of honest voice lends credibility to the posts and as such, he is likely to see some solid success through the blog. Moving through the posts you get a good feel for how well he does with his home business, and this again lends credibility to the blog. The appearance of the blog is clean and organized which also lends to the navigation scores. I do see a little more white space in the navigation bars than I generally like. Content is well written and user friendly for the reader. It is consistent in activity as well which is also serving its readership well. Overall, if you are interested in an honest no holds barred approach to affiliate marketing, Affiliate Confession looks like it is ready to serve you up just that.

-Chrissie

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For those who are interested in the Trade Show industry, you will want to check out a new blog that is all you need to know about Trade Shows.  The blog is called Trade Show Help.  If you are a Marketing Manager, Event Coordinator, Convention Planner, Booth Staffer, or just someone that wants to know more about the Trade Show world and about exhibiting at Trade Shows, this blog may have something valuable to offer you.  The blog not only offers information about trade shows, but also provides answers to questions asked by its readers.  How they do this is through a panel of 40 trade show experts with combined experience of over 100 years in the exhibiting industry that are ready to answer your questions on Trade Shows.  To get an idea of what you will find here, check out the most recent bloggeries at Trade Show Help: Pop Up Display Graphics How Should They Be Rolled?, Trade Show Case Sticker and Label Removal?, Question on Banner Stand Heights, What Trade Show Promotional Items are the Most Successful?, Question on Cleaning Fabric Hanging Structure, and What’s the Best Trade Show for Pet Related Products?

The site is fairly new and is well organized with a clean professional template, thus making it very easy to navigate.  Bloggeries are in black text on white background and links are highlighted in blue.  Bloggeries are centralized and there is both a left and right sided navigation bar.  There is also a convenient top navigation system to get to the blog’s main links which include links to the Home page, Exhibitor Resources, Trade Show Dictionary, About page, RSS, and Ask a Question.  In the left navigation bar you will find the Recent Posts Menu, Pages Menu,  Archives Menu, Blogroll, Tags, and Advertising.  Here the Pages Menu provides a comprehensive list of anything you need to know about trade shows such as the blog’s About Page and Privacy Policy, Ask a Question page, Exhibitor Resources, Trade Show Articles, and Trade Show Terminology.  In the right navigation bar you will find more links to Ask a Question, a Categories Menu, Hot Topics Menu and advertising.

Overall I give this blog a 3.8/5 for starter, though as a new blog it does look like it has a lot of potential as it grows.  The blog scores well on navigation as it contains a lot of blog meat and navigation systems to assist readers in moving throughout the blog with ease.  The blog offers good content that is easy to read and informative for the trade show reader.  The blog also has a clean appearance that makes the blog look professional and well organized.  I might suggest adding some pictures to go with some of the bloggeries, just to give the blog a little more color and to avoid the appearance of being a little too ‘texty’.  The activity on the blog could use a little work, particularly since it is only a couple of months old and thus will want to maintain consistent activity to get as many readers as possible. Right now bloggeries are spaced sometimes a week or more apart, and the blogger will want to increase this a little bit to sustain any new readers coming in.  Overall however, this is an easy to read blog with a well designed and easy to navigate template.  With some more activity this blog should be able to build and sustain a healthy readership over time.

-Chrissie

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