In this article I take a look at using blog post as landing pages and what you should do to insure a smooth landing by search engine visitors for both niche blogs and social/ flagship blogs. I also discuss the bounce rate of sites and how a high bounce rate may not actually be bad news for even a flagship blog. Read more to fin

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In this, the most recent edition of the OpTempo Free Blog Review, I take a look at environmentastic!, a green blog written by Caleb Hartley. What did my review process discover when I took a look at this blog? Did I find the theme OK or not? Did the navigation work? What about the widgets and plugins used? How was the monetizat

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Are the Sonic Impact HF1 High Fidelity Earphones a worthwhile purchase or something you should avoid for now and save your money for something better? Would it be a good idea to purchase a set of Sonic Impact HF1 High Fidelity Earphones or would you be better off buying a better set or using what you already have on hand that

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Age of Conan is a new MMORPG that is challenging World of Warcraft for dominance in the massive multiplayer online role playing game arena. How well does Age of Conan stack up against it and other MMORPGs? What kind of hardware do you need to play the game and enjoy it. What kind of bugs are players encountering on a regular ba

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Did you know that the Top Commentator WordPress plugin could be gamed? That it could be hijacked by someone who wanted to insert a site-wide followed link to a 'bad neighborhood' into your Top Commentator list? Or that someone who wasn't the original commentator could insert their link into your Top Commentator list, even fr

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Station Atomica's owner Andy, requested an OpTempo Free Blog Review a short time ago and here's the review. This blog is a nice geek culture and humor blog with some interesting original artwork. It is one of the more original blogs that I've seen in my review travels. The doodle artwork and sly commentary make this blog qui

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The subject of this OpTempo Free Blog Review is the TeqEdge Blog. This technical news and hints blog is one of the better blogs I've reviewed with a great theme and good content. I only found a few minor things that I thought could be changed in order to improve this blog. Are you wondering what these things were? If so, pleas

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The DigiPro 8″ x 6″ USB Graphics Tablet with Cordless Pen is an inexpensive digital graphics tablet. It’s great for casual computer drawing but are there some quirks you need to know about? Does it work with Windows Vista? How about on a Mac? Are there things you should be aware of concerning DigiPro 8″ x 6″ USB Graphics Tablet

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The makers of such popular programs as Keyword Elite and Hyper-VRE, the Callen Brothers, have a free website creation tool that will be available soon called Blinkweb. This Internet based program will allow users to create websites quickly and easily, for free. Here’s my preliminary review of Blinkweb based on pre-release mater

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The 3M FAP02 RS Filtrete Air Purifier is an electrostatically charged air purification system designed to purify the air in small rooms like bedrooms. Do you think that it Will help keep the air in these rooms mold, pollen, dust free? Would you think that the 3M FAP02 RS Filtrete Air Purifier is noisy or quiet? Would it be econ

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Is the Klipsch Quintet SL 5-piece Home Theater Speaker System the right choice for you should you be planning to build out a new home theater speaker system? Does this speaker system have anything special about it that makes it a cut above the others or is it not quite as good as its competitors. How does it sound with DVD movi

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Arte Moreno became a very rich man by "displaying ads for other people’s products", in his case, on outdoor billboards. He was the President and CEO of Outdoor Systems until he sold it out and then he delved into Major League Baseball and saw success in this area. What lessons about niche blogging, where we're blogging with

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Once again Saturday Night Live presents a skit spoofing the current US Presidential Primary campaign between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. This time they went after the infamous 3 AM call during a crisis. This humorous clip has a few good lines in it but it also raises serious questions about Presidential crisis management

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I wanted to expand upon a comment I left on Court's blog on this topic to further explain some of my observations about the algorithms behind the infamous Google sandbox. I primarily look into the four major factors I've noted in what puts a site in the sandbox and what seems to make its stay a short one as well as what can g

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Courtesy of Hulu, here is a video of the spoof of the recent Democratic Party Presidential Primary debate between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. It makes fun of how some members of the mainstream press fawn over Obama. This skit churned up a bit of debate over having Latino-Asian actor Fred Armisen portray Obama. If you miss

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