Entrepreneurial Blog of Matt Huggins
Websites May 31st, 2007
The Entrepreneurial Blog of Matt Huggins is running a contest. Just like other blog contest, all you have to do is to review his blog, and he will link to your blog and you stand a chance to win free business books. It’s just like throwing two birds with one stone, this blog will benefit from the link back and I stand a chance to win those books that will make me a better blogger.
Let’s get into the review, Matt’s blog has a very clean blog theme with a beach banner (see on top). When you first land on the homepage, you will find it too long. Articles written by Matt are long in average and there are 10 articles in the homepage. You will have to scroll a lot to get to the bottom of the page. What I recommend is to use the “more” tag. That will keep articles short in the homepage. Alternatively, Matt can limit his blog to display only 5 blog post on the homepage.
Matt’s blog mainly covers topics on making money online and things related to it like marketing. Currently, he is ongoing a project called Make Money From Your Blog, and from the title, it is about earning from your blog. In this project, he reviews almost all possible blog money maker from CPC programs like AdSense to CPA programs like Commission Junction. All his reviews are very useful as they are done in detail.
Matt do make money off his blog by writing sponsored post too. According to what I’ve observe, Matt is very choosy when posting sponsored post. He only post sponsored post that is related to his blog, like making money online and SEO. This will not only not hurt his blog’s reputation, but might enhance his reader’s user experience too. That’s a brilliant way of making money online I would say.
At the sidebar of the blog, Matt have a lot of useful links like money maker and other related blogs like John Chow dot Com. If Matt were to sell sponsored links on his blog, I would strongly suggest that he make a new page to house those links. Sponsors nowadays prefer buying links from websites that will benefit their own websites in terms of SEO, and they wouldn’t consider sites that have a lot of outbound links.
If you follows blogs like John Chow dot Com and ProBlogger etc, you might enjoy reading Matt’s blog too.
May 31st, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Thanks for the great review, Vincent. I’ve been considering changing my blog posts to include a “more” link so that things won’t be so long on the home page. Perhaps I will end up doing this after all. I’ll see if anyone else mentions it in their review too. Thanks again for the review, I’ve added you to my list for the drawing!
May 31st, 2007 at 7:07 pm
It’s worth to use the “more” tag if you have long articles, you readers won’t get mad for that. Readers will only get made if you use the “more” tag even you’re just posting a video with no words :p Anyway, thanks for being the first to comment on this blog - hope I win a book.
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