1. Does the title (and subtitle if there is one) clearly indicate what the blog is about and who the audience is? If not, how can you tell what this blog is about? 
   
   
2. What do you like or not like about this blog visually? How are the images and how is the overall look and layout?  
   
   
3. List two best practices you notice that this blogger practices.  What is one best practice the blogger could be doing better? (Use my post -- 15 Core Best Practices)
   
   
4. How is the blogger establishing credibility according to two Stanford Credibility guidelines. (Note two guidelines.) 
   
   
5. Do a brief content audit on the blog--viewing four or five posts. What kinds of posts are they writing about? Are the posts easy to read? Do they have comments? 
6. How is this blogger seem to be monetized? (If you see ads, that's one way, but look for more in the navigation/pages.) Are the ads okay - not too many? Is it too focused on selling/marketing or hitting the right note? 

Questions to Answer - Post each as a pad under your column - divide them up so everyone posts under the column -- write your name at the top or at the end: 

1. Does the title (and subtitle if there is one) clearly indicate what the blog is about and who the audience is? If not, how can you tell what this blog is about? 
   
   

2. What do you like or not like about this blog visually? How are the images and how is the overall look and layout?  
   
   

3. List two best practices you notice that this blogger practices.  What is one best practice the blogger could be doing better? (Use my post -- 15 Core Best Practices)
   
   

4. How is the blogger establishing credibility according to two Stanford Credibility guidelines. (Note two guidelines.) 
   
   

5. Do a brief content audit on the blog--viewing four or five posts. What kinds of posts are they writing about? Are the posts easy to read? Do they have comments? 

6. How is this blogger seem to be monetized? (If you see ads, that's one way, but look for more in the navigation/pages.) Are the ads okay - not too many? Is it too focused on selling/marketing or hitting the right note? 

(I wrote this just to jot down ideas, so I'll leave it here).

This blog lists links to all of the products that they mention, and they include a brief summary of a simply problem the average college freshman might have before introducing the product. The ending wraps up nicely with them asking: "what are some necessities for college that you can’t live without?

I’d love to know what things you’re more than happy to keep around! If you think I missed any big college necessities (for dorms or otherwise) leave a comment below."

They have a call to action as well as a way to boost engagement with asking for comments and possible suggestions for anything that they might have missed.

2) In some post they have links out.

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I like that it is easy to get around you just click on a certain workout or information and it takes you there. I don’t like how it shows an option as soon as you open the app to put your email in . On the bottom of the page they have there you tube and face book and you can even get a personal trainer to help you work out.

2) The site looks professional. Even though the pictures bother me as a whole its a clean look.

Practice to improve: He could post more regularly. For one thing, his home page doesn't have his most recent posts on it. Secondly, he has unexplained gaps. He didn't post blogs from late Nov-early Feb, then did two within a week, then seemed to establish a once a month schedule. This random pattern ahs continued throughout the year.

I don't really enjoy the visuals on the site but it was made in like 2007. I imagine he has updated the site quite little since joining the world wide web. Definitely outdated.

Credibility and Contact

Corbett is a pretty credible guy. Award winning investigative journalists. He also makes it very easy to contact him. Just submit your email and whatever you want to say.

Updating site content and making his site easy to use. He could be doing a lot better. Just making the site minimalist in my opinion. Speaking more about conspiracies. Using more and more information. But his site is really easy to use

By practicing the stanford credibility guidelines.

2. I really like how the blog is set up. I think the colors and backgrounds work well together. My only dislike is how big the pictures are for the blog post themselves, it makes it so only two posts are visible on the screen at a time. The images are the book titles that are being discussed in the blog post. There is a good layout with different tabs that help you find more specific genre of posts as well.

3. I think she does well at posting pretty regularly as well as knowing her audience. I think she could title her post a bit better. Most of the time it just says review then the book name.

4. She shows that there is real organization behind the site and she made the site easy to use for everyone.

5. The posts are mostly just about book reviews. They offer a summary, her thoughts and then her review of the books. To me the posts are easy to read with how they are set up. There is a comment/ leave a reply at the bottom of the post but it is hard to find where the comments themselves are.

6. She has the links on the blogs to where you can buy the books. There are some links to good read son the sided but she does not have any true ads on her pages.