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Shimon Sandler contacted me recently asking me to do a paid review of his SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) Consultancy blog. I haven’t used his services so will be reviewing his website and my opinion of the content on his site. I am not an SEO expert (although I like to think I do ok) so hopefully I will learn a thing or two from browsing his site.
Design
The design of Shimon site is nice enough, but nothing particularly special, however for its purpose it is more than functional. Personally I would reduce the amount of borders around things since they seem to segregate the content, and I would possibly make the main navigation more prominent. Personally I would remove the extraneous sidebar stuff as well, for example I would remove the “my blog is worth x amount of dollars” thing, it has nothing to do with SEO and clutters the …
I haven’t done any reviews in a while, then today I got asked to do one for GameGum a Flash gaming website (this is a paid review). It’s nice to get some games related reviews to do so I had to say yes.
Competition
Currently GameGum are running a referral contest in which you can potentially win $100 and 1000 GameGum points (more on those in a bit) - with a total of $250 worth of prizes. I am now wondering if I could win the contest by getting people to sign up. I guess I’ll find out in a couple of weeks 
About Game Gum
GameGum is a site that let’s you play a vast array of Flash (browser based) games. However where it differs from sites like Miniclip (where I work) is that it also let’s you submit your own games, rate other people games, and post comment …
Urban Fonts is a free font download site and they recently tasked me with writing a (paid) review for them.
When it comes to fonts I already have a favourite website which I normally use for my own font finding needs . It has everything I need, vast amounts of free fonts to download, the ability to preview fonts, including changing the font preview text. Vast numbers of categories and a decent search engine to speed things up. I didn’t think anything would replace it… now I’m not so sure.
Urban Fonts has everything my favourite site has, along with a bunch of other stuff. Urban Fonts includes tags, for sorting the fonts, has a blog with articles about fonts and typography (articles that are actually useful/ interesting).
In terms of looking for fonts everything you need is there. The previews of the fonts are great - if you mouse …
I got an email yesterday from review me telling me a review had been bought from a Poker site. At first I was disappointed as I don’t like advertising gambling, but once I had read the message and checked out the site I became happier. They were actually a poker table and accessories retailer wanting comments on their site design/ reviews of their products. Unless they send me a poker table I think I will have to stick to comments on the design of the site… which is something I quite enjoy doing.
So here we go - one review for the design of Cardroom Supply
First Impressions
The first thing I noticed when I visited is that currently the site is fairly generic looking. Maybe this is a good thing but I would be inclined to stylise things more giving a poker theme to proceedings. In my opinion a website should …
Since there were no objections I am going to give the whole reviewing thing a go. This is my first ReviewMe review that isn’t about ReviewMe (yes… it’s a paid review).
The site in question is w3 tableless. The first sentence on their website explains the purpose of the site but to save some time here it is again:
Validate your tableless website, link to us and you are automatically registered in our network of tableless designed sites.
The first thing I noticed was the rotating cube of screenshots. It seems to be a way to look at previously submitted tableless sites. Personally I would have gone for a simple text list, but at least it’s in Flash and not a Java Applett. The second thing I noticed was the design. It’s not particularly attractive, which seems strange for a site which is essentially a website showcase, but that too …
ReviewMe is a new site from the people who created Text Links Ads (I’ll be posting about them soon as well).
To coincide with the launch ReviewMe are giving away $25000 worth of reviews for their own site. I will be earning $50 simply by writing this post.
There are a couple of restrictions to the reviewing.
- Minimum of 200 words - not really a problem if you’re going to write something worthwhile
- You have to declare the post is a review - this post is a review
I’m not sure how I am supposed to write a review of their service considering I have only been using it for half an hour but so far it seems pretty good.
Registration is painless and adding a new site is quick and easy. You get given a ranking and a price per review (calculated from Technorati and Alexa). Each review I write costs the company …
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