blog review Oct 23 2007 15:15
Beth, please go and see your blog review:
www.mybestassociates.com//?page_id=76It took me over 2 hours of work but now it's done.
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Thanks.
CoachT
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Hi Beth,
When your budget is a big ZERO, there are many other options. I'm working on a book about it. Here are few:
- Join other professional social networking sites and tell your story there.
- Check HUGE social networking sites, such as MySpace
- Write articles on Article Directories, such as Associate Digest Article Directory
- Publish lenses about your new product or site by free subscribing to Squidoo
- Write a review for your site or product
- Use Web 2.0 technology (Technocraty, Digg, Delicio.us, StumbleUpon, etc.) and put widgets on your site.
- Write daily blog articles about your site events and changes on social networking site blogs or on your personal free blog (from Blogger.com).
- Use the power of RSS and press release.
- Traffic exchange is a very low speed, so I don’t recommend it, but who has time to stay at the desktop non-stop, can use it also!
There are at least 100 more free advertising and traffic strategies but I can’t write here more now. Besides the fact that social networking sites are very well exposed to Search Engines, on most of them you have free classifieds and can post ads there too.
Paid advertising:
- PPC advertising. The best is Adwords type of advertising; there are many sites similar to Google Adwords too. The rest paid advertising is WASTE of money, in my opinion.
Teodor
Coach T
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Beth’s Weblog Review
By Coach T
Senior Reviewer
My Best Associates
Weblog’s URL: http://bethsventures-make-money-online.blogspot.com
Blog Author: Beth Ventures
Rating: 6 out of 10
Blog Name: Make Money Online from Your Home
Recommended Name: Beth Ventures
Note: Url is too long, make it shorter! If possible use a stand-alone domain name.
Blog Description: “just 3 simple words :: Make Money Online :: are what the ‘real’ bloggers about this enterprise choose to maximise their web presence with on search engines. Will this work for a novice blogger? Someone who has learned a bit about network marketing and how that is different than the marketing based on SEO… Let’s see!”
Note: Make description shorter!
Blog Type: Need improvements to be a “Business Blog” type.
Potential Readers: Internet business beginners, marketers
Recommendation: Allow subscription possibility.
Value of Content:
Accuracy of your blog:
- What is the purpose of the blog and why was it produced?
- Objectivity: what goals/objectives does this blog meets?
- Information is not very detailed.
- Frequency of blog – very low.
- Produced in June 2007; should have at least 50 articles published.
Content Recommendations:
- Insert “About Me” page… with contact details.
- Insert “About This Blog” page with goals/objectives of the blog
- Increase posting frequency to at least 3 articles per week.
Design:
- CSS: blogger, ok.
- W3 Tableless test: Congratulations … ! bethsventures-make-money-online.blogspot.com is tableless according to the W3C recommendations
- Colors and images, ok
Design Recommendations:
- WordPress and Moveable Type have much more design features.
Layout:
- Main page, ok
- Related pages, n.a.
- Comments, ok
- Archives, ok
- Categories, n.a.
- Header, ok
- Footer: too much info about adlandpro
- Columns: 2, ok.
Layout Recommendations:
- Better to have few more related pages and categories. Blogger.com doesn’t help much on that but still can do something if you have your own DN or subdomain.
Usability:
- Ease to use/read, user friendly, versatility in access options: OK
Social bookmarking and news:
- Del.icio.us not available (n.a.)
- Digg, n.a.
- Facebook, n.a.
- Technorati, n.a.
- StumbleUpon, n.a.
- Reddit, n.a.
- Twitter, n.a.
Recommendation:
- Have at least 3 bookmarks and social news: Del.icio.us, Digg, Technorati
Monetization:
- PayPerPost, n.a.
- WidgetBucks, n.a.
- Targeted advertising (banners, buttons), n.a.
- Text link advertising, n.a.
- Affiliate links, ok
- Selling your content, n.a.
- Donations (button), n.a.
Recommendation:
- Have some affiliate links, but for the beginning I will recommend at least targeted advertising (banners, buttons).
RSS Feeds:
- Existing: Atom.
Recommendation:
- Have also a RSS feed for comments
Widgets, tags:
- Existing: Market in India widget – I’ve enjoyed the music!
Recommendation:
- Need to improve Market in India this widget (is little distorted…). Other recommended widgets: BlogCatalog, MyBlogLog, Technocrati
User access:
- Register, n.a.
- Login, n.a.
- Blogroll, ok
Other features:
- Email this, n.a.
- Link to this post, ok
- Trackback, n.a.
- Recent Comments, n.a.
- Recent entries, n.a.
Overall Conclusion:
It’s a good start for a beginner but you need to post articles regularly. For making it a real business and professional weblog you need to follow the steps described above and to improve your blog’s look, features and content.
For a professional review of your blog register to this weblog and contact me!
Adding GOOD VALUE articles to social networkings bookmarks! That'a a real help for the author if you love his/her article! And it's easy to do. Until now I just topped others' articles and wrote comments, sending only sime of my articles to Digg and Del.icio.us but I would spend some more time on articles I like in order to send them there. Thanks Juri for reminding. 
