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My $100 Worth of Review of OFW Life Blog

Posted by Sustines Laplana, 4 May 2007 at Category/ies: Review
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This time, I am giving away my $100 worth of review for free to Lestat_M, the blogger behind the OFW Life blog, whom I promised a review.

Why? Why am I doing a review without letting them pay me the price set by ReviewMe which is $100 per review?

If the main reason why I blog is to enhance my writing skills, the very reason why I am doing this too is to enhance my reviewing skills. I really want to become a Filipino John Chow who is the advertisers’ favorite ReviewMe publisher. And doing this is the only way I know to gain the skill I want to have.

Okay let’s start the real review.

Blog Design and Part’s Placement:

Actually, I don’t have any complaint about the design of the blog. You have choosen one of the best available WordPress theme which is design by tech savvy people.

However, I want to let you know that I really hate to see an Adsense Ads place at the top most portion of the page. I know, it’s one of the hotspots for ads but it annoys me. How about positioning that ad as shown on the image below:

OFW Life

The blog’s header contains only the Logo of the blog and nothing else. I think, it will be better if that 468×60 banner of Xoom will be place on the vacant area of Header. To understand what I mean, just take a look at the sketch below:

OFW Life

Now, if you will really do what I suggest, then you should transfer the Adsense Adlink too to the right sidebar. Consider arranging the right sidebar just like what is shown below, because the Adsense Link looks like a regular navigation menus so it suit here.

OFW Life

Now, why did I suggest to place the Feed Icon on top of the other sidebar stuffs? Just want you to take note that I am not saying feed icons but feed icon. I am actually referring to the icon like the one below:

RSS Button

This is to promote your feed and gain more feed subsciption. Remember that feed subscription is one of the basis in ranking your blog.

Now, what’s next?

Well, I want to tell you that I feel annoyed with that “previous post” things. It’s okay to place that “previous post” list at the top most of the content part when viewing the homepage and archived pages. But it’s an annoying thing when you view the itempage and that “previous post” list showed first.

Consider this placement of your content block when viewing the itempage:

OFW Life

Last words

Obviously, the blog is just a new one. It only started last March 2007. However, it’s still not too late to start a blog like this.

And I think, it will be interesting if you can post some photo you took from places you passed by. Remember that your topic is OFW Life, so posting some interesting places abroad is still bound by your topic. You can even post your experiences while dealing your job and your fellow workers , and your observations of what your fellow OFW did.

Lastly, good luck with your job and happy blogging.

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12 Responses to “My $100 Worth of Review of OFW Life Blog”

  1. lestat_m says:
    May 4, 2007 at 5:11 pm

    thank you very much for your honest review of my blog.
    I’m gonna tweak and follow some of your suggestions and I will make sure that your 100 dollar free review will be worth it..:)
    I’l get back to you when I’m done..

    big thanks and keep up the good work..
    you are really a great resource for newcomers in this blogging world..

    Reply
  2. SELaplana says:
    May 4, 2007 at 6:15 pm

    you’re welcome.

    Reply
  3. Lestat_m says:
    May 4, 2007 at 11:48 pm

    i’ve already created a preparatory post for the changes as per your recommendation,http://ofwlayf.blogspot.com/2007/05/ofw-life-blog-got-100-free-review-from.html i will consider it as my major activity this week coz thats is really a major blog re-layout…

    Reply
  4. SELaplana says:
    May 5, 2007 at 1:17 pm

    Les, I visited your post… i’m glad my review really helped… good luck and hope to see you succeed in Blogging…

    Reply
  5. Culture Shiok! says:
    May 9, 2007 at 12:48 am

    Can I also get a free review? hehehe…..

    Reply
  6. SELaplana says:
    May 9, 2007 at 2:58 pm

    ok, i’ll try. i will check your blog.

    Reply
  7. OFW LIFE Lestat_m says:
    May 18, 2007 at 12:22 pm

    how are you SEL..?
    I Just finished my blog layout as per your advised..
    Let me know if the new layout is OK :) thanks..

    Reply
  8. SELaplana says:
    May 18, 2007 at 12:56 pm

    ok…. titingnan ko pa

    Reply
  9. SELaplana says:
    May 18, 2007 at 1:06 pm

    Post ko lang po dito ung comment ko sa OFW Life blog:

    Hello po. Okay na po ito. Maganda po at very appealing. Maganda po ang pagkapili ng mga colors…

    Ang totoo, during my designing sa blog ko gusto ko sanang makadesign ng ganito ka ganda… it just happen na mahina talaga ako sa matching ng colors. Marunong lang akong magappreciate ng gawa ng iba pero hindi ako marunong gumawa ng singganda ng gawa ng iba.

    So, ang next task niyo po ngayon ay kung paano patataasin ang traffic ng blog mo. Kasi pinakamahalga talaga ang traffic lalo na kung gustong mong imonetize ang blog.

    So, kung magawa mong gawing 1,000 visitors a day ang traffic mo with 4,000 hits then ang next task na naman na dapat mong gawin ay ang experimentohan ang Adsense placement para makuha mo ang 10% to 30% CTR.

    Reply
  10. Teofila Asif says:
    February 9, 2011 at 5:33 pm

    You made some decent points there. I looked on the internet for the difficulty and located most individuals will associate with with your website.

    Reply

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