When we visited Pinoycosole.com, we thought right away what a great domain name! We can’t stress enough how important a domain name is to the success of a website. Just apply the importance of your own name or a company name, branding, logo to grabbing a domain for your site and you get the idea.

This internet tech-con-gadget-con-modding blog has the makings of a successful blog in its niche. It mixes the blogger’s love for game consoles, collecting ‘toys’, tweaking, PC talks and *homebrews with a bit of his personality showing in his posts- open and friendly! Two of the many essential assets on running a fruitful blog.

While the English syntax is visibly lacking in various spots, the message gets across to the reader nonetheless and that’s what counts. Unless a blog focuses on English literature and writing where the bar is set higher, grammar deficiencies in other types of blogs even on personal blogs are openly received.

We like blogs with About page. Believe us when we say that 1 out of 2 bloggers would click on your About page on first visit! It’s the first one we ever click when visiting a blog we have never seen! A Contact page is helpful to your readers and this site has one. We’ve mentioned about tagging and this blogger from Canada has a page dedicated to it. That’s nifty!

He runs his own advertising throughout his site with clear explanation on pricing and stats. However, we think that stating your blog age or when exactly you started is necessary. Being vague by saying that you’re a newbie would not be helpful to your readers and possible advertisers. If you don’t want to indicate it, the best way is to put a monthly archive of all your posts on the sidebar. An Archive is another friendly add-on you can give to your readers for ease of navigation on your pages, especially in finding older posts.

The other aspect that we like about the blog is also the area that concerns us the most. True to majority of Tech blogs, the layout is sleek and professional. The sidebar balanced, and the theme colors- easy on the eyes. Here’s the issue: the site is totally bungled up in IE and AOL browsers (and could be in others based on the screenshots we saw). The blogger is most likely unaware of it as it is seamless in Firefox browser!

We have no idea why some users still use Internet Explorer! (Try Firefox and experience the difference today!) For sure we can’t dismiss them so we have to be considerate that they can view our site using their favored browsers. Do you know that there is a cool site that lets you see how your site looks like in various platforms, Safari, Sea Monkey, Opera name it? Bookmark this must-have tool!

Going back to Pinoycole.com, the solutions are either fix it of course (but entails a huge amount of time because with the heavy scripting and coding, it is hard to pinpoint the cause), do nothing which is probably the worst option because that is driving away traffic from IE users and denotes that you don’t care about your other readers. This leads us to the only difficult but plausible choice: change to a different theme, a tough call because the theme is a great fit to the theme’s site. We leave it to the blogger’s discretion.

Starting a niche blog is hard but Pinoyconsole.com is well on its way to leaving its own ink in the internet. Gamers and techies, this blog’s for you!

*Homebrews refer to programs such as games, utility software, and the like, that are made at home by individual people (as opposed to development companies).

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