A recent post of mine on LinkReferral describes how the program
works and stirs up traffic for your site. A bonus to this program is
ratings and reviews of your website by Linkreferral members.

On some popular Blogs, the authors want you to pay them to review
your blog. When the review comes in it can make you feel pleased and
even elated that you are on the right track but on the other side of
the coin, it can leave you feeling disappointed and frustrated. All that
hard work and it's not up to "snuff".

The question is...do you change your blog to suit this one opinion?
It's your blog and you are putting your own thoughts into it and
that already separates you from the "crowd". After all a Blog should
be original and you will notice the successful bloggers "are" different
from the norm. That contributes to part of their success.

Back to LinkReferral and reviews. I get "free" reviews everyday and
some of these are from top Marketers and Bloggers that are members
of LR. Do I take them seriously? If there is a one line blurb like
"nice site"...no, but if there is an extensive explanation...yes.
I take an average of the reviews and then work on the negative
aspects to improve on them. The positive points; I take them and
"run" and expand on what is working.

My Lens on Squidoo always had good reviews and ratings but got some
negative "vibes" concerning this Blog. No complaints about the content
but the layout got some criticism. "The initial presentation is too dull",
"you need to put some umphh in your header after all, this is the first
thing readers see", and "Hi there. Once I got to the actual content it was
great lots of good information and product listings. The site took a little while
to load though. The initial page that opens is rather bland however the content
pages following were great. Nice job I like your site. Maybe glam up the initial
page that opens? "


I guess it's back to the drawing board and do some work on the layout of this
blog and see what I can come up with. Originality is the key and a theme.
like John Cow's Blog but different. The smoke is starting to come out of my ears
from overheated brain activity but I got nothin' so far.