one of the most important things when you blog, is to make sure that you aren’t unnecessarily complicating things for your readers. your readers will be from all walks of life and consequently will have different reading and comprehension levels. Of course that isn’t to say that you should dumb down your content, but it is an argument in favor of simplicity.
with that in mind we have the blog readability test.
simply plug your url into the site and it will give you the readability level for your blog. while for some people, the fact that you need a post-doctorate degree to comprehend their blog, i think it’s preferable to use this tool more to ensure that you are writing at a level not more complicated than high school/college. this ensures sufficient maturity in the writing without unnecessarily complicated language.
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Thanks for the tip on this tool. It is very interesting. I’m curious what’s going on behind the scenes to end up with these ratings. Nonetheless, it’s nice to see most blogs I contribute to are high school and college level even though some diggers bash me as a Junior high idiot. Pshaw!
I got elementary school. Whoo hoo!
Mine said ‘Elementary School’ lol. I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing Muhammad!
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I did this for me three blogs and got elemntary, high school and graduate school! Quite a diverse writing style I have I guess.
To Funny, my very technical blog has Genius status - Thanks for the cool widget. I am produdly displaying the status.
Thus far, I have sent 12 clicks to your site
I wish it gave a little information on what the criteria are that go into a ranking. RadioactiveLiberty.com got “Elementary School” and my new HumorBlogging.com got “Junior High.” I wonder why the difference. They’re both written by me.
I entered some urls of popular blogspot blogs that have huge traffic and links and it showed undergraduate.That’s Funny
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funny, my blogs’ reading level was huh, huh genius, perhaps the use of freudian and lots of french phrases does that.