Blog Hunting

I haven’t really mentioned what makes a good blog in my opinion. See, I’m not a critic, not person who has a standard list of things I go through to critique a blog. I simply like it or I don’t. Yes, that is simple. It is also true. Most blogs are somewhere in the middle of really good and really bad. Most of the blogs I look at and do like are in the middle. Not everything is terrific about it but it has appeal and I just like it.

Cooking blogs, pet blogs, gadgets, Christian blogs, contests and that sort of thing will grab my eyes. Someone’s got a great blog but then it takes a long time to load is a problem for me. I’ve run across several blogs I would love to write about but the blog doesn’t load quickly. I have DSL so it loads semi-slowly for me. I wonder what would happen if someone who still had dialup wanted to go onto that site. I suspect that it would be difficult at best and really slow at worst.

What that means is that I will be giving other blogs a good look see and some will show up here. I love to give a good report on those blogs. If you want me to review your blog, please use the email address at the right and I will get to it as soon as possible. A number of people have loved my review and links for their blogs. You will too.

Blog Hunting and all of the other blogs maintained by me wish you and all of your family a late Happy Fourth of July. Yes, it is late and getting later by the moment. The rockets red flared and the bombs burst in the air but the flag was not waving in the air. It was attached to someone’s front porch.

We had a good time that day. It was peaceful and quiet until the fireworks went off across the street from us. Still, it was a good day. I watched some fireworks displays on television. No, I do know that it is not the best way to experience that sort of thing but I have had those experiences many times before. This way, I do not battle the bugs or the heat while I watch the bombs bursting in the air. And I did not have to experience the sort of sonic boom that goes with such things especially at the end of all those fireworks that went of at once.

So, even though this is a belated Happy 4th, there you are.

My husband noticed blogging and what could be done with it some time ago, probably a couple of years ago now. He started to blog then. But it took a while before he took note of the paid blogging companies that were really getting going then. He joined in with them. It was great. I had no idea that there could be a way to blog and make money as well. When he got paid the first time, I started to see what blogging could really do. And I could say what I wanted to say and it was amazing! Blogging would be fun without the pay but it is so much better with it.

But there is a danger. I have been signed up on some social network sites, one of which means you have to go to the site and actually do something there. On occasions I found some really great blogs. They are informative, interesting, nice for the eyes. People put thought into the posts there and the themes. Those blogs are great. They have appeal and usually have RSS feed subscribers and a following.

On the other hand, I have seen some blogs that are so loaded up with advertising that I nearly could not see the reason for the blog. Or possibly I can. It seems that some blogs are made for the sole purpose of putting up ads, advertising for someone else. I realize that everyone needs to make extra money. I do not want to step on those dreams and hopes. However, some of these blogs are so full of the advertising that there is little room for the posts themselves. In fact, I found one blog that I could not find the posts. They had some type of little list of posts that took you to another page of the blog. The posts were NOT on the front page of the blog. Not one.

When I visit a blog, the first thing I look for is the first post. If I like that, I will look for more. If I am actually doing the card dropping from that social networking place, I will look for that first but the post is the next thing to see. If all I see are ads and things to sell me, I don’t even want to drop a card there. It is of no use to me. I consider that type of blog to be an over monetized blog. When the sole purpose are the ads, it’s all over but the shouting.

On the other hand, if a person is posting something with a text link or a couple of links, a picture or something like that, this is great. You can find out something about the blogger, something about a product and something that is probably written pretty well if they are doing this for a company. That type of blogging is just fine with me. I will review such blogs here. And over monetized blog will likely not be reviewed here. I simply don’t like them.

It truly has been a while since I put a post on here. I really did not intend for that to happen this way. But the world gets into your life and that’s that. But now, I do have a review of a blog I want to give. It’s this one. It isn’t what I had hoped it would be but I expect it to get there. It will just take a bit of time.

This blog is going to be reviewing other blogs and possibly products sometime really soon. I love giving my opinion and that’s exactly what this blog is all about. So, I will be at it again very soon. There are a large number of blogs I intend to get to and review. I have my work cut out, don’t I. I love it!!

Here I am on a brand new blog! For some time now, I have done a review of a blog here and there. I thought it was time that I simply got myself together and put a blog up about reviews of blogs! Now doesn’t that seem like the right thing to do? I thought so too.

So, here for your consideration is my Blog Hunting blog. Okay, that was lame but what is there to say about blogging about blogs? I will give my best assessment of the blog as I see it. Granted, that does not mean the blog is necessarily top quality or the worst thing ever. I am giving you my opinion on it, period.

Hey, once in a while, I might blog for payment but I really doubt that you will see the difference. You might. I will have links in most of my posts. Once in a while, I will run across a blog so bad that the only way I will link to it is if someone puts a firearm to my head. If they are so bad that I do not want to link to it, then I will give you the title and you can do the work. I am not giving the bad ones the link love that they want. No way.

For now, I will find and review either a blog or a page from a blog, something that fascinates me or caught my attention for some reason. I think you will find cats, dogs and food in here a lot! But I do have a lot of other interests too!! Yes, I really do!! I just can’t think of them right now. Sigh.