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Well, if you are a Giants fan still reveling in the glory from the SuperBowl, then you may be happy to know there is still a place you can hang out to dish about your favorite team. There is a blog on the New York Giants, called Giant Bits. The blogger is working hard to keep football fans hunger satiated with all there is to know about the Giants. While the blog revels in the Superbowl victory, this is not just another Superbowl dish. Read his recent bloggeries to find out: Coach Spagnuolo to Stay with the Giants, A Giant Upset: Super Bowl XLII Champions, Super Bowl XLII: Giants at New England, Super Bowl XLII: Giants vs Patriots, Surprise Trip to Arizona, Awasom Arrested, Me-Ki Barber and Why These Giants are Better Without Him, Super Bowl XLII and Me-Ki Barber, Specter Calls for Congressional Hearing on “Spygate”, and Knight Signs with Gmen; Other Free Agent News.

The blog is very easy to read, well organized, and easy to navigate. Bloggeries are centralized and there are both left and right navigation bars. In the left navigation bar you will find a host of sites to buy NFL tickets such as CTC Tickets, Vivid Seats, The Seats. Here you will also find a Categories Menu with only one category called ‘UnCategorized’, Archives Menu, Recent Posts Menu, and Related Blogs Menu. In the right navigation system is some AdSense. Each bloggery is well laid out and associated with relevant pictures. I like the theme of the blog as well, it reads as if it was the sports section of the newspaper in both appearance and in tone of content.

Overall I give this blog a 4/5, and have just a few suggestions. The blog looks great from an appearance and navigation perspective and scores well on content as well. I would suggest the blogger add some categories to the categories menu just to make navigation a little bit simpler than it is at this point. Judging by his recent posts, I would even suggest categories such as Coaching, Injury List, Superbowl Stats, Players, and etc. The blog is missing an About page, but given the function of an about page, I don’t think this blog needs it unless he wants to connect with his readers on a more personal level. It is pretty clear what the blog is about, but some readers may enjoy a little About information to add a more personal feel to the blog. Overall, though not a Giants fan (my apologies) I enjoyed reading this blog and think that any Giants fan would benefit from this blog, as much as the writer would benefit from that readership.

-Chrissie

If you are looking for some tips and tricks on how to live a little more frugally, then you may want to check out Bird on a Wire, the definitive guide to frugal living. It is largely a blog about finances.  The bloggers is a life advisor that teaches others how to identify values, banish debt, start saving, and begin investing.  The blogger aims to teach you how to budget and how living frugally doesn’t necessarily mean you are living on the streets.  To learn more about this blogger and this blog, check out their most recent bloggeries: Updates from Remarkable Bloggers, Breadcrumbs, Confession is Good for the Soul, Niche Me Once, Finally Friday, Dancing Backwards in High Heels, and Common Sense Makes Cents.

The blog is very well organized and comes in a clean well-laid out template which makes it easy to navigate.  Bloggeries are in black text on white background, all placed on a backdrop of beige background with links highlighted in red.  The blog offers several navigation systems, both a top and a bottom navigation system containing the same links to Home, About Us, Contact Us, Network, Privacy, Disclosure, and SERO.  Bloggeries are left marginalized and there is a double wide right navigation bar on the right.  At the top of this system is a convenient search bar where you can search the Archives and Categories Menu as well as the blog itself, followed by some advertising, Recent Posts Menu, and Blog Directory buttons.  The navigation system then switches into two bars where the right bar contains blog stats and advertising, and the left bar contains Great Sites menu, Remarkable bloggers, Top Blog Sites, and We Read These menu.  Each bloggery is accompanied by at least one relevant picture making the blog colorful and interesting to read, and each bloggery is also associated with a Related Posts Links menu where readers can access similar information on the blog.

This blog gets a 4.8/5 for me as it scores well on all accounts.  The blog is easy to read with well-written content that has both a personal voice and user friendly tone for its tips.  The content is also coming in at a nice steady pace with daily regular content.  Further, the overall appearance of the blog is appealing, with a lot of information and graphics that are managed well so that they are not distracting.  The blog is well organized into a variety of navigations systems that make reading this blog not only easy, but enjoyable. This is a great blog on a unique topic that will sure to see some steady growth and success.

-Chrissie

If you are one of those that have always wondered if those paid surveys actually do pay out to the user, then you may want to have a look at this blog related to Online Paid Surveys.  The purpose of this blog is pretty straightforward, and if you are looking for any information at all about online paid surveys, you should have no problem finding it on this blog.  The blog consists almost entirely of reviews on the various survey programs, and you can see this for yourself by looking at any of the most recent bloggeries:  Geenfield Online adds PayPal and Other Improvements, Earn Money Blogging for Online-Paid-Surveys.net, Make Money Taking Surveys – I Did It And You Can Too!, Share Your Thoughts on Online Income Opportunities and Test Your Stock Trading Skills with Wall Street Survivor.

The site has a fairly clean layout and thus from first appearances navigation will be fairly simple.  The more time you spend on the blog however you will find this blog to be somewhat disorganized and chaotic.  Bloggeries are left marginalized and there is a right sided navigation bar.  There is also a top navigation system under the header.  Bloggeries are in black text on white background with the blog being bordered in black.  In the top navigation system you will find links to User Reviews Home, Free Paid Survey Directory, Survey Panel Blog, and Online-Paid-Surveys.net.  As you go further into the blog, you will notice that the blog becomes more complicated to navigate. In fact, the more time you spend here you will find this is more a website about survey sites, rather than an actual informative blog on survey sites.  In the right navigation bar you will find categories, top 10 user ralted lists, popular posts and surveys.

This blog scores a 2.4/5 at this point, as it has very little to offer the readers in terms of what a blog generally is supposed to offer.  From an appearance standpoint, the blog receives its highest score in the criteria, as the blog has a clean template with very little distractions.  On all other fronts however, the blog does not do well at the time of review.  The content on this blog is lacking, period, in the sense that there really is no content.  Each bloggery is a review of a survey site, with no personal voice or information attached to the bloggery that would lend the blog credibility to the reader.  The overall navigation of not only the bloggeries, but the blog as a whole needs some work.   As a whole in fact, the blog looks like a website geared to advertise survey site referral links.  Anyone can go to a site with tones of links to different surveys. The secret is making interesting content that will not only draw people looking for surveys to the site but also give them some selection when there so they feel as though they are at a quality resource on the topic of online paid surveys. If the author ads more content in a major way and does an actual indepth writeup of pros and cons of each survey online this blog would do much better. There are lot’s of people actively searching to do surveys for money online; with some work this could be a quality resource; already has the domain!

-Chrissie