Can Your Mum Navigate your Blog?

Tech-savvy grandmaI was speaking to a friend recently and she told me her mum reads her blog now. She’s not afraid and most definetely not paranoid of this. After all, I think it’s soon going to be the norm all around the world. As best you can to hide it, search is becoming more powerful and personal information is being shared open through social network sites.

So instead of fighting it, why not help mum to navigate your blog? Or is your blog not mum-friendly?

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Blog Review: MyMacBuzz

David; blog owner of MyMacBuzz contacted me and asked if I could review his blog. I’ve reviewed a number of other blogs; Midnite Lily, What’s This Then?, Dustyhawk and a couple of others before. I stopped doing it at one point because it was taxing and review requests were for the wrong reasons.

A review from me is always honest and straight forward. I don’t get paid to say nice things and I won’t say nice things even if I was paid. My long term goal in this industry is to increase the value of websites me and my team produces for clients. My personal goal now is to be recognized as a ‘consultant’ who’d offer valuable web design experience to clients websites.

Therefore, if you’re looking for straight up feedback on your website or weblog then I’m here. So without further due, let’s help David locate his strengths and weaknesses.

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How Do I Keep My Blog Private?

This is by far the number one funniest or just odd question to ask. The normal reply you’ll get is, “If you want to keep it private, get a diary.” I mean really, if you’re going to join the blogging foray you’ll at least have to understand that it’s not easy to keep your blog under wraps. And it’s not from prying human eyes but from the eyes of the search engines.

“If I don’t submit my blog website address to search engines then I’m safe from being picked up right?”

Well, that’s a no or just a maybe. Although you haven’t submitted your blog to any of the major search engines, they might still find you if you don’t own your own domain. I say this because search engines will scan from the Top Level Domain (TLD) which is your www.your-name.com then dig deeper into the depths of your domain.

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Blog Review: Midnite Lily

A very good morning to the visitors to the blog, I got up rather early this morning so pardon any odd mistakes you might find in the review if any. Yes, that’s an excuse but it’s a good excuse because rather than telling you I’m too tired, I’m telling you honestly why I’m tired. So let’s get down to Miss Lily (not real name – I think) over here.

Lily who’s a writer in person (I don’t think I need to comment on her content :P) has a blog called Midnite Lily that brings back fond memories of when I was using Movable Type. Though her slogan, “delivering over-anal thoughts after midnite” sounds horny or kinky I’m pretty sure she’s enough a believer in her religion to remain holy. Sorry, I just had to say that. *giggles*

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Blog Review: What's This Then?

The recent blog review I did for Dustyhawk caught the attention of Pennywise who own’s the blog What’s This Then? and he requested in the comments that I reviewed his blog too. So before beginning, allow me to explain first that what I might discuss upon be personal preference based and if you can’t take the feedback then you shouldn’t have asked for a review in the first place.

Alright, so the first thing we’re going to do is categorize the type or genre of this blog. It’s title says it’s a blog about Humour, Technology and News and sure enough all the posts or topics have been covering the generalisation of all these contents.

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