{"id":489,"date":"2007-04-16T21:00:42","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T04:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/?p=489"},"modified":"2011-07-08T09:08:39","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T16:08:39","slug":"how-readable-is-your-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/how-readable-is-your-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"How Readable Is Your Writing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is your Web copy easy to read and understand?<\/strong><\/p>\n

If sales conversions on your affiliate sites are low or few visitors respond to your requests, the problem may be that your message lacks clarity or simplicity.<\/p>\n

To check your articles for reading ease and “grade level”, I recommend using a tool that incorporates the Flesch-Kincaid readability test. <\/p>\n

The test checks the number of words in each sentence, and the number of syllables per word. Using shorter sentences and shorter words with fewer syllables will result in a higher score of “reading ease”. The best score is 100.<\/p>\n

The “grade level” test uses the Gunning-Fog index to assess the grade school level of your writing.<\/p>\n

For example, the sentence “Jane runs up the hill” is at a Grade 3 level, while this “The graduation writing assessment requirement (GWAR) is a systemwide requirement. The California State University system requires upper-division undergraduate students to demonstrate a level of writing proficiency which may be expected of college graduates” came in at 17.8, which I suppose is a sixth-year University level. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Up to this point, this article comes in at a Grade 9.4 level, which is equivalent to the what Reader's Digest offers its readers. Most surfers have low attention spans and read at grade levels between 7 and 9, which are the levels you should aim to hit in your articles.<\/p>\n

To test your next article, I recommend that you use the free tool at “Textalyser.net<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

People won't act if they don't get the point.<\/strong><\/p>\n

To help your visitors get the point, improve the readability of your writing and help yourself to improved conversion rates in the process!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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