Have you ever wondered what your blog visitors think when they first visit your blog? The majority of bloggers get a few comments per post they publish, but this is too little to determine if your visitors like your blog or not.
- Is the blog theme ugly or professional looking?
- Is the title big enough so people will know what the blog is about?
- How about the text, is it easy to read?
- Are there too many pictures or not enough of them?
- Too many ads that make the blog look cheap?
The point is, small things matter! If you don´t know what the problem is you will lose readers fast.
Fortunately, you can solve this problem by simply testing if you have a [Tag-Tec]good blog[/Tag-Tec] or if you need to change something.There is a website called Blogexplosion.com where you can sign up for a free account. After that, visit the “Battle Of Blogs” -page and compete against someone elses blog by choosing a challenger and clicking “Accept Challenge”.
Other BlogExplosion members will now visit your blog and your challengers blog, and vote on their favorite.The battle takes about 15 minutes to be completed and when it is over you will know how many people like your blog.
- If 15 out of 15 vote for your blog, you do not have to change a thing on your blog.
- If 10 out of 15 vote for your blog, you need to make some improvements.
- If no one votes for your blog, then you need to do some serious changes to your blog.
After you have made changes to your blog, enter a few battles and you will see if you have improved your blog or not.This is a faster way to see results than wait for a week to see your Google analytics statistics.
While you are waiting for the battle to finish, review other battling blogs and vote for your favorite.When you are voting, think of what makes you like the blog or dislike it.What is it that catches your attention? Is the blog interesting or boring? Remember to take notes and you will get many new ideas of how to improve your own blog.
These bloggers talk about characteristics of a good blog:
The Five Characteristics of Good Blog Content
You hear a lot of talk about having “good content” on a blog. You hear about how having good content increases your credibility with your reader, and how it helps your blog be successful. However, we don’t often talk about what exactly good content is. That’s exactly what I want to look at today…
What Makes Good Blog Design?
As you surf through the internet you’re bound to come across certain designs that you love and some that you hate. But good blog design has a few unique elements when compared to the design of a traditional website. Here are ten things to keep in mind when designing your blog…
What do you think makes a good blog? Leave a comment.
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I really wanted to say thank you for this quality information.
I have been asking this question for quite sometime as to how can you define how good your own blog or someone elses blog actually is and today you have placed much light on that subject.
Thank you once again.
Mark McCulloch
Hi Mark, thanks for stopping by.Many of my readers wanted to know if there is a way to determine if a blog is good or not, so I came up with this solution.It is pretty straight forward.
Blogexplosion.com is really awesome..I tried it and you can test a blog using the “battle of the blogs.” It just proves that blogs should catch your attention, likeable and not boring.
Very informative. Knowing how good our blog is very important, not many of us think of that. Thanks for sharing this post with us. I will certainly try blog explosion.
I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don’t know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.
Lucy
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