The blog we find ourselves reviewing this morning is called “Gifts” in the submission area, but it is really called “Ano’s blog on how to make money online.” It is a standard blogger template in basic web-happy colors of blue, yellow and green. Ano’s profile page shows nine other blogs, most of which are money-making blogs as well.
There are only two entries on this blog’s front page, a July 2007 and November 2007 entry. To find other blog entries in the archives (those date back to April 2007) you have to scroll all the way to the bottom of the page. Archives and profile information should really be more accessible, and neither were listed towards the top of the page.
The MoneyOnline widget crashed my Firefox browser and forced a restart of my computer. Thanks. I love visiting blogs that crash my system. After logging back in with Internet Explorer, I found there is really no substance to this blog at all. Because the blog only shows two entries of the possible 40 for the year, the right side panel banner ads are all that there is to look at. They’re smooshed over into the more narrow side panel, and to see them all, you have to scroll down the page until your finger hurts from spinning the mouse wheel.
There are ads for everything from chocolate to how to get bigger boobies by wearing the right bra, to gay and lesbian fashion and “whale friends.” A lot of the ads are too large/horizontally designed and don’t fit in the side panel. They end up chopped in half or cropped off, due to being bigger in pixel width than the navigation area allows. Look specifically at the horizontally designed banner ad for “Steganos Internet Anon” and realize that about half of that ad is lost because it isn’t designed for that space. Horizontal Vs. Vertical. It’s key to know what to do with graphics, where to put them, and how they work best on the web.
Just slapping up banner ads and not really caring what they look like on a blog, or what they do to the layout of a page, shows a real lack of caring about the blog itself. Let’s join as many affiliate programs as possible and hope we get a buck or two out of it. Horray! It’s a blog!
Best part of this blog is when I scrolled all the way down, alllll the way down to the bottom, there is a giant glittery graphic of a fairy sitting on the moon. Incredibly random.
I’ve said it before. Everyone wants to make it big, make it rich and I can’t fault Ano for trying. A few bucks here, a few bucks there — and pretty soon you’ve got a lot of money coming in. The more advertisements, the more revenue… right? That’s the philosophy here. But without interesting, informed, entertaining content, there is no reason on earth to visit Ano’s blog. I give this blog a 1.0 rating. NULL