It seems that I go the order inverted! #3 is going to appear before #2!

Still, here we go with #3 in my series of buzz blog type posts. The blog “State of Confusion” written by Natalie is the third candidate, and when I went to her blog, I found that a large brightly colored lady caught my attention. Very colorful! I wonder if she chose the name because of the Kinks’ album and song of the same name.

She’s calling herself a “stay at home mommy” blogger! But her blog really takes her place, even though she can’t get out so much at the moment! Her blog covers a range of topics including

Rough Night and BBQ chicken “recipe”; 10,000 Steps and her exercise and diet program; and My Love of Baseball.

I usually like to link to individual posts but I couldn’t because of the limitations of her choice of theme in BlogSpot. I also found it difficult to find any posts on particular themes or ‘categories’. Nor did Natalie use ‘tagging’ to help readers find what they were looking for.

It’s a good blog, but I’d strongly suggest that you look to including tags or categories and make it easier for people (your readers) to find their way around.

Keep writing, and perhaps one day we’ll be able to have BBQ Chicken together! That’d be nice.

If you’d like a blogbuzz for your blog, just visit the homepage, link to the blog as described and DROP ME A NOTE telling me that you’re ready! And if you’re interested, do check out the blogs and see what they’re saying! They’re linked at the bottom!

The first person to take me up on my buzzfest for October is Jorge who runs a cool looking financial news blog with a cow big bull on the front page, much better than the design for my pages! It’s a visually attractive website with very nice layout material, doesn’t look at all generic, despite the fact the CSS is free. And the URL is a great one: Investing Adventures dot com.

I don’t know how he finds the time to write such a blog because in the third quarter, he made a portfolio gain of over 50%. That’s quite impressive.

I do like the way Jorge handles category pages, but I don’t think the drop down menu for page categories is a good idea. It hides the category links away from visitors, and makes categories seem very unimportant. Also, it would be a good idea to have an archive page, too, so that readers can find your previous posts easily.

Great blog, I already signed up for the newsletter! I’m sure I’ll be following your tips, too!

I’ve been spending a lot of time reading great posts on other blogs, so I’d like to share them with you.

Of Music and Money
If you are interested in the music scene, and if you have read mine, you’ll know that I’m interested in how the music companies are faring in the new world of social media! But recently I read this excellent (and long) article about how groups, singers and other performers are finding that they no longer need to issue records and cd through the big four record companies. Radiohead is finding a new channel for its music, both free AND paid (yes, PAID!). They join a long list that now includes Prince amongst many others.

Hands-up: Who doesn’t use Adsense anymore?
There’s also a very interesting discussion going on at ProBlogger on the value of Adsense on certain blogs. Problogger and John Chow have both removed Adsense from their blogs citing poor performance, low clickthrus, low payments, and competition from advertisers… Actually, I’ve written about Adsense as a way to send visitors away from your blog! Three out of five of my Gurus no longer use it!

Boosting your Income: Dividends, Selling, and Profits!
Some of the other things that I’ve been thinking about include Tyler noting how some companies that make cool things are able to raise their dividends, and Internet Income Guy is examining how to blog profitably, and CashQuests has some great new posts, esp. on how to sell your blog for a $1000!

That’s it!