MamaBlogga

Hi. I, or at least other people like me, like reading your blog. We like reading it so much, in fact, that I frequently remember posts that you write. Sometimes they’re so awesome, frankly, that I remember them months later and just have to link to them.

I hurry over to your site and—bam. No navbar—no search bar. Sure, you may have Scribbit’s wonderful custom search engine for mom bloggers, or even a Technorati search box, but in my experience, those aren’t super reliable in helping me find the specific post from your blog that I’m looking for. Granted, I work in search engine marketing, so I do know a trick or two to find the post (if it’s been indexed by Google), but really, not very many people do.

Look, I know it’s ugly. It may not go with your theme. You might not like the fact that it has a Blogger logo on it. I’ve heard lots of people express concern that the “Next Blog” button might lead to objectionable content, or be seen as a a link to such content by search engines.

May I point out here, though, that there are a few color options for the navbar: blue, black, silver and tan. And in my (admittedly limited) experience and recent testing, I have never come across “adult” content from the “Next Blog” button. Adult blogs are supposed to be properly labeled and carry a warning message through Blogger software. And the way that the navbar is coded, there is no actual link on your site from your blog to the “next blog.”

If you wouldn’t mind to terribly, having the navbar would help make your site easier for me to use. Can you go easy on me? I have a two-year-old.

Thanks,
Jordan (MamaBlogga)

P.S. Also, for some reason, the popup window that Blogger uses for comments is just not big enough on my computer lately (and it won’t let me resize). Sometimes I can’t even read and write comments (or at least not easily) or see the spam CAPTCHA image in the popup window. Just FYI.