Comments on: Debunking the “Blog readability test”

By: zstitches

zstitches — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:45:23 +0000

Thanks! Not sure if I’ll ever need this info, but it’s good to have it here in case somebody’s Googling readability and ends up here.

By: Nimbus1944

Nimbus1944 — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:36:54 +0000

Much-belated comment: For real-world readability ratings, try http://www.readability.info/info.shtml . It’s intended for books and papers rather than very short pieces like blogs, but it should work if you tack a bunch of your blog entries together in a word document of several pages.
Cheers-
Mike

By: zstitches

zstitches — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:28:07 +0000

Thanks — I knew there was also something like that behind it, but I didn’t know how to put it so succinctly.

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:18:33 +0000

The real debunk is that if you place the medallion on you blog, it becomes a hidden link to a website you would not normally choose to link with. They run this little “scam” to build up thier Google rating through links.

By: zstitches

zstitches — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:59:51 +0000

Well when it occurred to me to try the URL of just this post, (unmixed with kid tales,) it came out as “Genius,” so I guess I had it all wrong and it does measure the intelligence of the writer, after all. (Also, I was a little less zealous with the sentence-chopping on this one.)

By: Pilcrow

Pilcrow — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:17:46 +0000

Mine is rated Elementary School, which is not surprising given that my most recent entry is a collection of nouns (and verb phrases, thank you Zina.); I doubt anyone would call it easy reading. Also, you are such a fabulous writer.