Review Your Blog with Checklist
By
TheBloggerTips on
February 6th, 2008
How do you review your blog? Do you have any checklist onhand? What are the factor or criteria to use as a guideline to review your blog?
There is a cool website named as Successful Blog that populating some criterion as a checklist to review your own blog. Let’s take a look here:-
1. Audience:
What words would your readers use to describe your blog?
What do they like best about your site?
2. Purpose:
What is the purpose of your blog?
Why does it exist?
Is the purpose stated plainly where your readers can see it?
How well does your blog meet that purpose?
3. Content:
How well does the content support the purpose?
Is the content readable, interesting, accurate, entertaining, and appropriate for your audience?
4. Design:
How well does the look of the blog communicate the kind of blog it is?
Is navigation easy and intutive?
Do items flow naturally from the first to the next?
Do the color palette, image, and type choices support the content or call attention away from it?
5. Posts:
Do you post on a consistent schedule the information readers came to find?
Do your posts reflect the unique purpose and style of your blog?
Do they offer variety and interest within your blog’s purpose and theme?
6. Comments:
Do you read and respond to comments to form a sense of community?
Consider which posts get most comments and which get none.
How does that effect the topics that you’re posting on?
Technical Issues: Have you checked lately to see whether and how fast your blog loads in other browsers?
Have you overdone the use of plug-ins and gadgets, making the experience more confusing than fun?
7. Writing:
Is your writing clear and respectful of your readers?
Have you established a writing voice that lets readers know who you really are?
Is the blog essentially free of errors in grammar, usage, spelling, and punctuation?
8. Organization:
Have you set up your categories to draw readers into your backlist?
Do you feature “Golden Oldies” that new readers would have interest in?
Do you name your Categories things that readers can understand?
9. Marketing:
What are you doing to let readers know that you are here?
Are you listed in the right directories?
Do you read and comment on other blogs within your readership?
Have you included feeds?
So, do you have any ideas now how to review your blog before launching your blog?
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