Life in the Fast Lane

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Ever heard of ‘Paid Review’? The concept that sites offering Paid Review try to sell you on, is that they will provide you with reviews for your site imparting precious backlinks and hoards of traffic from well known, high traffic sites and even from some with high Page Rank. Photo Dustbunny44

Expect to pay anywhere from $20 to $200 per review for your site for that ‘valuable linkback and flood of traffic’. It may be great for the person getting paid for the review, but for the person forking out the dough — well as they say, a fool and his money are soon parted.

I can’t justify this concept myself. Why should another feel such a cut above you that they can actually charge you for a review? As my friend Kuanyin from Blog-Blond states and I echo, “Be good to one another. Or even better, give someone a review for the heck of it and surprise them.” She’s written a post on reciprocal blog reviews with a link to a site where you can submit yours for those that will exchange reviews at Make Money Online with Court.

And so this happens to fall into the scheme of things for a meme I was tagged for by Jan Pieter Marbun at Only God Keeps Me Going for a reciprocal blog review. I’ve never written reviews in the past — I’ve focused my attention towards writing dedicated posts for blogs with similar content, or artists I’ve come across, so it seems that this is my time, and high time I did.

True to my fashion, I haven’t followed this meme with the original scheme of things (are you actually surprised?), so visit Jan at his site for his post on this meme to see how it’s actually been set out. I’ve also added the banners for each site to familiarize you with their blogs, as well as to break up the doldrums of a purely text only post (something I simply can’t bear to do!).

Here are the destructions to participate …
Create a post with at least one paragraph explaining how you joined the Reciprocal Review Carousel. Please do not copy from my post anything more than the list of blogs to review and instructions for this meme. I don’t wish to be spanked by search engines for duplicate content, and I’m sure neither do you.

Remove the Bottom Review. Add your own review for your site and those you would like to add at the TOP. Write your own review with a link to the site reviewed, with at least 2 sentences about the site.

Add the following side-notes below the review:
Recommended by: Use the name in the list with their anchor text.
Reviewed by: YOUR Anchor Text — link your anchor text to your site. Use anchor text that you would want for the link to YOUR blog, which will help your search engine rankings. Mine is:
Life, arts, oddities, and discoveries at Fast Lane, and my URL is http://www.lifeinthefastlane.ca/

It’s not recommended to have more than 30 outbound links from any page to specific sites to prevent penalties for link farming. You and I both know you’re not a link farm, but search engines don’t have that human insight to discern that.

Copy the entire list for blogs, along with the person that ‘recommended’ the site. Use their name for their anchor text. Use your own anchor text for your own name for ‘Reviewed by’.

And here we go …

Life in the Fast Lane
Is blog about art, artists, creative expression, and anything odd, unusual, offbeat, wild and whacky, weird science, and a little bit business. You’ll discover things you may never have heard of or seen before, and some things to tickle your funny bone. Some may be thought provoking, others merely entertaining. Life in the Fast Lane is about having fun!
Recommended and reviewed by: Life, arts, oddities, and discoveries at Fast Lane

Blog-Blond
The vivacious Blondalicious teacher Kuanyin provides you with tips, tools and advice to improve your blog and your writing skills. Her demeanor is lively and entertaining, not your typical teacher from grade school — learning is fun! And she’s Blondalicious!
Recommended and reviewed by: Life, arts, oddities, and discoveries at Fast Lane

Sue Blimely – Discovering Blogging
Discovering Blogging provides information for New Blogger, Beta Blogger tutorials, tools, tips and help, layout, templates, styling, hacks, widgets, and add-ins! Sue provides comprehensive information that’s easy to understand, even for a techy challenged person such as myself. How much more could you ask for if you’re using Blogger?
Recommended and reviewed by: Life, arts, oddities, and discoveries at Fast Lane

Interesting Observations
You’ll find pearls of wisdom from the Pearl girl, as she offers her perspectives and observations on blogging, the internet, life, and our planet in general. You’ll feel immediately welcome in the inviting atmosphere.
Recommended and reviewed by: Life, arts, oddities, and discoveries at Fast Lane

RennyBA’s Terella
Renny’s blog is about Norway and the Nordic countries — the culture, traditions, history, food and habits. You’ll find a wealth of information and incredible photography for historical landmarks and locations from Renny’s ‘Lifecruiser Cyber Cruise’ journeys.
Recommended and reviewed by: Life, arts, oddities, and discoveries at Fast Lane

My View of “It”
Carol writes about her perspective of current political events. She says it like it is without reservation, bar none. If you have an interest in politics, Carol will not fail to keep you coming back for more.
Recommended and reviewed by: Life, arts, oddities, and discoveries at Fast Lane

Only God Keeps me Going…
A spiritual site for which Jan Pieter Marbun writes on his reflections for life, internet, life style, love, dreams, networking, friendship, and spirituality. I particularly enjoyed his post for I Can Do It An excerpt from the post reads:

Reflections in Life:
Somebody wants to share his or her dreams with you.
Somebody is alive because of you.
Somebody needs your support.
Somebody will cry when they read this.
Somebody needs you to have faith in them.
Somebody trusts you.
Somebody hears a song that reminds them of you.
Recommended and reviewed by: Life, arts, oddities, and discoveries at Fast Lane

Life is just around the corner…
This is an uplifting and inspirational site, where Sophiagurl writes some delightful posts such as The Power of the Hug, Embrace Imperfection, and my personal favorite — Why Men are Never Depressed. An excerpt taken from the post:

Car mechanics tell you the truth. The world is your urinal. You never have to drive to another gas station restroom because this one is just too icky. You don’t have to stop and think of which way to turn a nut on a bolt. Same work, more pay. Wrinkles add character. Wedding dress $5000. Tux rental-$100. People never stare at your chest when you’re talking to them.
Recommended by: Jan Pieter M•
Reviewed by: Life, arts, oddities, and discoveries at Fast Lane

A Simple Life
A Simple Life is a very ‘feel good’ and inspirational site about loving, living, learning and healing. You’ll find some lovely poetry and writings that will give you some food for thought about your inner being.
Recommended by: Jan Pieter M•
Reviewed by: Life, arts, oddities, and discoveries at Fast Lane

A Nice Place in the Sun
The site is a children’s book review ‘for parents and other grown-ups’. You’ll find some helpful advice and links for books for ADHD and learning disabilities, and children’s poems, amongst the broad range of children’s book reviews.
Recommended by: Jan Pieter M•
Reviewed by: Life, arts, oddities, and discoveries at Fast Lane

Suray’s Words
Suray writes about whatever fuels his mind. Topics include computers, finance, games, biology, geography, history, and even poetry. Here’s a taste from his post on Adaptive Radiology:

Because the environment exerts such control over the adaptations that arise by natural selection-including the co-adaptations of different species evolving together, such as flowers and pollinators-the kind of organism that would fill a particular environmental niche ought to be predictable in general terms. An example of this process of adaptive radiation, or filling out of environmental niches by the development of new species, is provided by Australia.
Recommended by: Jan Pieter M•
Reviewed by: Life in the Fast Lane

WordPress Web 2.0 Guide
Here you’ll find a plethora of useful information for WordPress including essential plugins, as well as valuable tips to target traffic for your site, and site optimization.
Recommended by: Secure Your PC for Free
Reviewed by: Life in the Fast Lane

Andy-Coates.com
Andy is passionate about cars, technology, gadgets, the internet, and various random topics. You’ll find ways to improve your rankings, new marketing strategies for your blog, and information on generating free traffic.
Recommended by: WordPress Web 2.0 Guide
Reviewed by: Life in the Fast Lane

FitForFreedom
Marco Richter provides useful information you may find valuable on your personal way to financial freedom. He covers a variety of topics from personal development to methods of creating profitable websites which lead to that last secret of working money.
Recommended by: Alex
Reviewed by: Life in the Fast Lane

Free PC Security
I personally found this site to have valuable information for free downloads to secure your computer from adware and spyware, tips keep your PC optimally running, and methods to protect yourself from identity theft. Heeding advice from Colin’s site, you can minimize the risk of being compromised.
Recommended by: Alex
Reviewed by: Life in the Fast Lane

VI-SU
VI-SU covers topics about WordPress, AdSense, SEO and Internet Marketing. It’s mostly written in German, but using Google translate is worth the effort for his advice.
Recommended by: Alex
Reviewed by: Life in the Fast Lane

Home With Heather
Targeting Work at Home Moms, (WAHM), Heather Masson provides useful information and advice from her own experience. Topics include balancing your life with home time management, planning and setting goals, tips and tools for your blog, and marketing concepts.
Recommended by: Alex
Reviewed by: Life in the Fast Lane

A Copywriter’s Blues
Alex Badalic, a veteran of advertising turned ‘freaked out musician’ to move forward to becoming a creative writer. Alex tells you all you’ll ever need to know about blues bands, country and western, and classic rock. You’ll even discover some vintage videos.
Recommended by: Alex
Reviewed by: Life in the Fast Lane

Did You Smell That
David Ledoux is a lifelong entrepreneur, author, speaker and trainer. Author of the best-selling books The Road To Gold, How I Went From Welfare To Millionaire Without Winning The Lottery, and The Ultimate MLM Blueprint. His popular training programs include How To Make A Whole Lot More Than $100,000 Per Year On The Internet, BigMoneyFreeTime, A Dream Come True, and Million Dollar Secrets.

He has been featured on video, radio and has traveled globally speaking to tens of thousands of entrepreneurs on the merits of the Free Enterprise System. He was named the #1 Trainer In The World in 2000 by MLM Insider Magazine. Well known and respected in online community, he now makes his experience available on his blog.
Recommended by: Alex
Reviewed by: Life in the Fast Lane

Best Damn Blog
Richard Wing provides advice on Internet Marketing. You’ll find advice to prevent pitfalls for beginners, as well as methods to set yourself apart from affiliate marketers in this cut-throat industry.
Recommended by: Alex
Reviewed by: Life in the Fast Lane

PlugIM Blog
Everything you need to know about PlugIM. PlugIM is a user driven internet marketing community. Submit content, share articles, comment on projects and promote your favorites to the front page. If it’s internet marketing related, plug it on PlugIM.
Recommended by: Alex
Reviewed by: Life in the Fast Lane

Linkrain Articles
Andreas Moser’s purpose for this site is to help Webmasters and share the wealth of experience learned from years in the internet business. You’ll learn all about proper linking strategies. Ask Andreas a question and a entirely dedicated post will be provided with detailed answers.
Recommended by: Alex
Reviewed by: Life in the Fast Lane

Keeping the Bastards Honest
Phil provides insight into many online scams, exposing the so called Guru’s and Scam Sites. Check out his category for Scams, Lies, and Crap where you’ll find information to guard yourself from online schemes designed to separate you from your hard earned dollar. You’ll also find links to recommended sites for further information for safeguards.
Recommended by: cotojo
Reviewed by: Life in the Fast Lane

Life
One of my personal favorites, Colin writes about the things that make you feel alive. Full of life’s lessons and inspiring and motivating stories and quotes, Colin’s sharp and clever wit will also keep you in stitches.
Recommended by: Sophiagurl
Reviewed by: Life in the Fast Lane

Chatting to my Generation
Although Anja Merret targets the baby boomer generation, she feels that all generations have the same issues to face. She also writes about marketing, techy stuff for amateurs, environment and much more.
Recommended by: cotojo
Reviewed by: Life in the Fast Lane

Copy and paste the Reciprocal Review above, but please do not copy the reviews themselves, as they are my own which I have provided for the sites, and I don’t wish to get slapped by Google for duplicate content. Either write your own reviews, or put your own spin on them.

Once you have provided reviews for the sites let them know, and perhaps they will join the carousel and reciprocate. It’s your opportunity to receive traffic to your blog, some linky love, and perhaps make some new friends in the process. Have fun!

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