is your blog easy to read?
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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November 4th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
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!
November 5th, 2007 at 8:08 am
I got elementary school. Whoo hoo!
November 5th, 2007 at 10:34 am
Mine said ‘Elementary School’ lol. I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing Muhammad!
November 5th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
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November 8th, 2007 at 8:44 am
I did this for me three blogs and got elemntary, high school and graduate school! Quite a diverse writing style I have I guess.
November 8th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
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
November 12th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
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.
November 13th, 2007 at 5:32 am
I entered some urls of popular blogspot blogs that have huge traffic and links and it showed undergraduate.That’s Funny
November 18th, 2007 at 5:15 am
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