My $100 Worth of Review of OFW Life Blog
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:
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:
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.
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:



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:
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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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..
you’re welcome.
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…
Les, I visited your post… i’m glad my review really helped… good luck and hope to see you succeed in Blogging…
Can I also get a free review? hehehe…..
ok, i’ll try. i will check your blog.
how are you SEL..?
thanks..
I Just finished my blog layout as per your advised..
Let me know if the new layout is OK
ok…. titingnan ko pa
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.