Review : Blogger Team Site
Well I hadn’t plan to go down this road but with the popularity of our Interview Series and after the suggestion of a fellow webmaster, I decided why not. I had toyed with the idea anyway after being reviewed ourselves on Rate My Sh*ty Website. Now I don’t plan to quite go down that road even if I do enjoy that style of review. Instead I will be featuring sites which offer blog related services. After all, I am always looking for a hidden gem to use myself and I am hoping my naivety in regards to blog promotion may actually help me.
So my first review will be the site owned by the person who made the suggestion in the 
first place. He goes by the name “Soul-Healer” on the Digital Point forums and owns Blogger Team. It is usually at this point that I would outline what they do there. Unfortunately, after 7 seconds (the approximate time the avergae person takes to decide whether to stay or leave) I have no idea. It is a pretty busy site on first entry. My eyes tended to go right for the red hyperlinks on the right side which seem to be peoples blogs.
It was after a little while longer that I realized it is a service that will basically set up and host your blog for you. Now you may think its funny I was unsure what the site did because of how many times the phrase “Free Blog” was repeated but I typically think that the more times a phrase is repeated, especially with “Free” in the title, the less truth there is that it is really free. Take the first box of text you are presented with:
Blogger Team is offering Free Blog hosting services. Start a Free Blog with us we tightened our belts to provide you Free Blog hosting for life time. You have full control over your Blog. Signup now and welcome to Free Blog community.
Holy Smoke Batman…Surely that is written for a Search Engine and not a user. I appreciate the need to get density up but I personally prefer natural language as in the end, you need to get the punters through the door.
What I would like is to have a one line mission statement featured on the page that clearly describes what they do in 10 words or less, ie:
We create and host your blog for no charge….Read More
The read more is important as it gives you the chance to get people off the doorstep and into the house. Now I am not saying to use the exact wording but certainly let your users know in a short sentence what you do. Then you can give them all the details which are listed on that front page.
Now as far as the service, here is a sample free blog. I actually like that the ads are not at the top but instead at the bottom. So often a free blog screams out that it is a free blog and has so many ads, its actually hard to read. My only advice would be to blend the bottom panel a little better although if the blog owner is smart, they use a white background to achieve that affect themselves.
All in all, its a clean and professional site and maybe its just my old eyes that found it a bit busy. I know kids and teens love busy and they are the probably the target market so take my advice with a grain of salt.
If you would like your blog related site reviewed, why not send me off a mail to info@yfs1.com - Be warned though, Spam me and I will look up your ip, find your address, fly to your city, go to your house, and punch you in the stomach.
Have a nice day 