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We are going to look at another money making blog, sort of, called Online Opportunity. The one thing online marketers will like that separates this money making blog from the others is that it functions to offer you experience from opportunities. In other words, the blogger has established this site to illustrate that making money online doesn’t have to be expensive, but it does require work. The blogger reviews opportunities, and advises his readership of what looks good, and what looks like scams. As he says, he spends the money and takes the risk, so that you don’t have to. Overall, the blogger hopes to steer you in the direction of opportunities that have a better chance of working for you, to ensure that you do not become discouraged in your quest to make money online. You can see for yourself how the blogger is working hard for you through any of his recent bloggeries: The Best Places to Advertise?, Becoming a Qualified Google Advertising Professional, November’s Neglected Niche site Progress, 12 Days of Marketing Christmas Update, How to Succeed in Internet Marketing, Making Link Exchanges Work, Site Build It! Day 6, A Better WordPress Ping Plugin, and the 12 Days of Marketing Christmas. What I really enjoyed when I was reading through the bloggeries was how the blogger adds a disclaimer to every bloggery indicating that the blog is supported through sales and not advertising. He does not hide the fact on how his blog is monetized and simply asks for your support in the process. I found this honesty lent quite a bit of credibility to the blog off the bat, and enhanced my reading as I reviewed the blog.

The blog is well laid out in a clean template and blog design that makes it very easy to navigate. Bloggeries are left marginalized and there are two right handed navigation systems. The bloggeries are black text on white background and links are highlighted in blue as are all headlines. In the left sided navigation bar are subscribe and contact information, Recent Posts Menu, Popular posts Menu, Categories Menu, and a Top Commenters Menu. In the right sided navigation system there is advertising, Featured Posts Menu, from the Blogosphere Widget, and Recent Readers widget. The blog also contains easy to navigate top and bottom navigation systems in the header and footer. In the top navigation bar there is an About page, Comment Guidelines, Recommended Websites, Featured Opportunities, and Contact information. In the footer, you will find the Archives Menu and Site Stats.

This blog is getting a 5/5 from me as it scores perfectly on all accounts. The content is fresh and unique and comes with a strong personal voice that lends the reviews and information a great deal of credibility. For a blog of this niche, credibility is difficult to come by so the blogger has done very well establishing that for himself. Appearance wise the blog scores well, and the personal taste to this blog ensures it scores well for unqiueness as well. Activity is coming in daily with regular bloggeries, so the blogger is doing well to sustain its readership. And with its clean template and varied navigation bars, the navigation on this blog is very easy. I hope this blogger continues to provide this resource to the blogosphere as it is definitely a valuable one to anyone that is working to make some money online.

Bloggeries is taking a look at another personal blog, and this one is called Swiftworld. The writer of this blog is 14 year old Lee Oixian fro Singapore who also goes by the nickname Polar/Swift. Lee is a student studying and living in Singapore and he loves computer games or anything computer related. He enjoys finding new things, exploring and experiencing different and unique concepts. His love of computer games is relatively obvious throughout the blog, and he hopes to use the blog to influence his readers to play the games that he reviews. At swiftworld, you will find many product reviews and news articles, but you will also find out what the daily journeys of Swift are, as he says, it is his world, his word, and his story. You can get a true feel for his story by reading any of his recent bloggeries: An Update on my Life, SimCity Societies Review, Advertlets – Quick Money…, Advertlets Advertisers Pay for Nnothing, Avencast: Rise of the Mage Review, Learn to Mix and Get an iPod Free, Advertlets vs. Nuffnang, Project Torque Review, and Protect Your Mobile Equipments Today!!

The blog is very well organized and this makes it extremely easy to navigate as well. Bloggeries are left marginalized in black text on white background and links are highlighted in blue. The blog contains both a right sided navigation system as well as a bottom navigation system in the footer. In the right sided navigation system, you will find at the top a home and about link with time and date clock. This is separated from the rest of the navigation system which contains on the left side a categories menu and an archives menu on the right. The categories menu is broken down into several distinct themes that speaks well to the nature of the blog: Advertisement, competition, contests, games, PC, Personal Life, Review, Services, and Website. Scrolling down to the bottom of the blog you will find a recent posts menu that contains a brief description of every recent post, as well as a recent comments menu that illustrates how well read swiftworld is. The bottom navigation system also contains an AdSense column.

I am going to go with a 3.4 for this blog, and say the only thing really hurting this blog from a better score would be more regular activity and maybe move the adsense below the first post instead of above. The blog is nicely laid out in a clean and attractive design, and is extremely organized and easy to navigate. The blog scores well then for both navigation and aesthetic appeal. The blog scores well for uniqueness as well, as it is a personal blog that also contains product and game reviews that would be beneficial to the readership. The content is well done and is written by a 14 year old in a very candid manner, but with a strong personal voice that I think is appealing to the readership. The readership is also obviously a healthy one judging by the number of regular commenters. The only thing I would suggest to improve this blog is to try and get in some more frequent activity. Right now content is coming in approximately every few days to a week at a time or more, and I think more frequent activity would make this blog even more successful than it apparently already is. Overall however, the blog is doing very well, and if it maintains the personal voice and credibility, I can see the readership growing even larger than it already is.

-Chrissie

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Bloggeries is going to look at another personal blog today, and this is the blog of Czian Contreras. To see a personal blog from someone of the ripe age of 13 doing so well is always inspiring to other bloggers. Czian lives in the United States but originally hails from the Philippines, and he is proud of it. He uses his blog to show his insights, ideas, opinions, and any other commentary to the things he sees. You may enjoy it, you may not, you may not even agree with it. But the blog is definitely a fun and excellent read. He is hoping, as some people say, that you find it extraordinary nonetheless. You can get a feel for Czian and his thoughts from any of his recent bloggeries: Eagle Pride, Shopping Against Laptop, Czian’s Official Soundboard, I’m Back!, Geek or Gifted?, and What’s the Spelling of Furniture?

The blog is well organized and thus this makes it easy to navigate. The bloggeries are right marginalized in black text on white background and accents are in blue. There is a left navigation system that includes a search bar, About link, ‘Czian to the world’, Shout Out Box, Link Exchange Box, Categories Menu, Archives Menu, Recent Comments Menu, and blog achievements. The categories menu is eclectic, just as is the nature of the blog, and if you enjoy reading about Czian and his life you can find it neatly sorted out into the categories of Opiniated Side, iLife, Tagalog, Rude Czian, Must Read, Interests, and many more. Almost every bloggery contains a relevant picture associated with it giving the post meaning. And it’s fun to read, because some pictures you don’t really understand the relevancy until you read the entire bloggery. But this is the blog of Czian, it’s quirky and fun and offbeat, and you will enjoy it.

I give this blog a 3.4/5 for now. The blog generally scores well on all aspects with the exception of activity. Appearance scores are good as the blog is well laid out and easy on the eyes and it offers a clean presentation for a personal blog which further lends to its navigation scores. A unique header would add lots to its personality though; especially as a personal blog. The blog is also very unique in both its niche and its content. Currently however the blog is not being updated enough with only 73 posts in 2007 and this is hurting the blog tremendously. Even the most attractive blogs with good content can not do well if they are not kept up to date. So I do recommend that Czian work to update his blog to see continued success. Czian however clearly has an excellent readership, and thus, he could definitely sustain that and even make it grow further with just a little bit more blogging. Keep up the great work, Czian!

-Chrissie