How Difficult to Understand Your Blog?

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Are you sure your readers understand what you write? How difficult it is to understand your blog? I know some blogger might show off their bombastic English in their article. But what is the point when only few people can fully understand his/her writing? Normally, I will just scroll through these articles…

So, how to make sure your blog is easy to read, easy to understand? Keep on follow these 2 rules:

• Simple Words
• Simple Sentence

Do not ever use complicated sentence. The longer the sentence, the more mistakes you will make. Then readers might be confused or misunderstood your actual meaning.

Test Your Blog Readability

Want to test your blog readability? Well, you can get someone to proof read your blog to get some comment. If not, you can use The Blog Readability tool to test.

The tool is similar to how much is your blog worth tool. No installation needed. Just launch The Blog Readability site, enter your blog’s URL and click on “Check readability Now”.

Once done, the result will prompt your blog’s readability level. It has level range from elementary school to genius. So, do not so happy when you get a genius readability level. Your reader might not understand what you write. ;)

My two cents

Anyway, the test tool is just for reference and fun. It is not 100% fully proven on its algorithm. Do more interaction with your readers, you will know whether they understand via comments.

I have tested my blog. I have the blog’s reading level of “Junior High School”. LiewCF tech blog having same readability with me! I believe with my simple English (so called layman term), you should understood what I write. Am I right? :)