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Would you like to take the Blog Readability Test? Click here. Here is a1-fan-fun’s result:

Interestingly enough, my other blog Karen Zara Dwells Here got a better result: Junior High School. As its posts are all written by yours truly, this made me wonder how the results are generated and what the cause of this difference might be.

I’ve written longer and better articles for KZDH. Now I’m trying to improve a1-fan-fun’s content, but in the past it used to be silly indeed. That may explain why two blogs mantained by the same writer got different results. On the other hand, the criteria behind the Blog Readability Test remains unknown as far as I’m concerned.

This made me so curious that I decided to put many other blogs to the test. See the results:

Vandelay Website Design - High School

DoshDosh - College (Undergrad)

HELLO, my name is BLOG! - Elementary School

DailyBlogTips - Junior High School

John Chow - Junior High School

Problogger - Genius

Warrior Blog - Elementary School

Pro Blog Design - Junior High School

SEO Chicks - Junior High School

Skelliewag - College (Undergrad)

Blogging Bits - College (Undergrad)

Liz Strauss at Successful Blog - Elementary School

eMoms at Home - High School

Blogging Web 2.0 - Junior High School

The Honest Way - Junior High School

The Writers Manifesto - Elementary School

All Tips and Tricks - High School

I am Karthik - Elementary School

How to Make Money Online for Beginners - Genius

Internet Marketing Mind - Junior High School

SEO 2.0 - Junior High School

Abstract Promotion - Junior High School

Internet Marketing Sucks! - Elementary School

Lars-Christian - College (Postgrad)

Jim Kukral - High School

Mike’s Money Making Mission - Junior High School

Ades Blog - Junior High School

Angela Booth’s Writing Blog - High School

Bloggers Blog - Junior High School

Hot Diggity! - Elementary School

Go Media Zine - Elementary School

C. Hope Clark - College (Undergrad)

Wrimo Buddies - High School

Marketing Pilgrim - High School

45n5 - High School

Daily Writing Tips - Junior High School

Copyblogger - College (Postgrad)

I’m sure I’ve left many cool blogs out of this list, but it is long enough already.

On my next post I’ll write more on this subject. Meanwhile, tell me what you think. Is there any blog you believe to have been underrated (or overrated)? Why?

UPDATE: In fact my next post will deal with an entirely different subject. Sorry about that. But I’ll write more on this readability thing, promised! Thanks a lot for your comments.

Now WordPress.com offers a tag system, besides its traditional Categories. I took a look at their tag related FAQ and, much to my surprise, I found this item:

Is there any advantage to using tags or categories or both?
Not here at WordPress.com and not for any search engines, no.

Now what about all those bloggers, webmasters, SEOs, online marketers etc. who have always emphasised the importance of using tags?

Of course, I may have misunderstood that sentence. Maybe it means that it’s unimportant only as far as blogs hosted on WordPress.com are concerned. But I’m intrigued by it. And it immediately reminded of a post I found on DailyBlogTips. It was about the famous Technorati tags and how necessary they are… or not.

I don’t know what to think.

People who were trying to include tagging in their search engine optimization should know that they don’t need to alter their web design. The web hosting should be chosen carefully now.