Blog Review: Bloggers Showroom
Vince requested a Free Blog Review of the blog, Bloggers Showroom.
Here’s the review…
What is Bloggers Showroom?
According to the About page Bloggers Showroom is intended as a place to show off your blog and allow others to review it via a voting system and comments. The blog has been in operation since November 2007. I guess I get to review the review blog in this case.
Site Design/Theme
This is a WordPress blog that uses a custom template with a wide content area to accommodate screenshots of blogs and a smallish right sidebar. I found the background bitmap that shows up in the margins to be a bit distracting. It’s good branding but it really needs to be a more subdued shade.
Navigation is good. The multiple poll plugins per post seem to work OK although I’d recommend something more Web 2.0 AJAX-ish should such a polling plugin be available (I don’t know of one though).
Monetization includes Adsense and private sale ads. I don’t think Adsense would be a good choice for this blog so I’d recommend not using it unless I’m wrong and it’s making a lot (over $3 a day). The private sale ads seem a bit pricey at $50 a month. Maybe a $10-25 price would result in some sales.
Content
The content is simple, just a blog screen shot, a short description supplied by the blog owner and link with an invitation to vote in the polls for the blog. Quite an easy formula. Here are 3 such reviews:
Overall
While the content is rather lightweight, the idea of having a blog showroom is a good one. I could see this being enhanced further with better plugins in the future. Monetization is likely to be tough for this unique blog concept though.
Get Your Site Reviewed
If you would like your blog reviewed by me for free, just like Vince did, use my Free Blog Review page to request one. The waiting time for one right is is about 3-4 weeks but it should be worth the wait.
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