Oh this is good – saw someone reference the Blog Readability Test (what level of education is required to understand your blog?) and of course plugged mine in to learn:
Then just for fun I grabbed the first blogger I thought of who actually writes, and this is what Meredith at Information Wants to be Free gets:
That’s absolutely hilarious. I suppose it could be a compliment that she writes so well more people can understand… Make up your own mind if you want to trust this tool 🙂
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given that libraryassessment.info comes back as ‘genius’ level…… : )
LOL!
I’d agree that I probably write at a high school level — my blog writing is very colloquial and is a far cry from the way I would write for an article, book or column. In my blog, I write how I speak, and I like having a space where I can have passive sentences, dangling prepositions and completely incorrect punctuation; for me the blog is the space where I can relax. 🙂
What a funny coincidence! The Annoyed Librarian’s blog is also at a high school level.
Geez, Paul, I took the test…and Walt at Random scores at Junior High. I’m not sure whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing. Maybe both?
Well, I think this test is just fun. It has nothing to do with the real blog level. I have tested my own blog – at first it got genious level. But all my friends’ blogs got only elementary. Some time later I retested mine – and recieved college reading level.
Katerina’s got it nailed, I’m sure. When you grab the logo to paste in your blog there’s actually a line of HTML pointing to a loan website that wants to come along. I just didn’t include that, but I suspect a fair number of folks will just paste it all in, and bingo, there’s another link to the loan website. Pretty smart idea, actually – kinda surprised they didn’t do a better job of hiding that link somehow.
You got it right Paul. That’s just another clever (and bad) idea to promote some loans website.
Junior High level for View From the Library http://northmetrotechlibraryatacworth.blogspot.com/
I noted- there is no excuse to not understand this blog. 🙂
i caught the embedded code for the loan site before linking it on my blog also. i tried to find a more reputable readability test and found one at
http://juicystudio.com/services/readability.php
oddly enough, when i ran my personal and our library blog through both tests, the results came out about the same: my personal was “genius” for the first and post-graduate for the second…library’s blog was “junior high” for the first and between 6th-9th grade on the second. maybe there is some loose science at work…
If you base the readability on accessibility and usability issues; the lower the grade, the better the site. The key here is to convey information. If the information is hidden somewhere between those wordy sentences, then we are not doing our objective. The more people can understand your content, the more people will visit your site, the more it becomes popular.