Blogs That Scare Me Away:
Part II.
Part II.
Inspired by Chris Garrett’s question: Does Your Site Frighten Readers Away?, I will evaluate Copyblogger.
I clicked; the main page looked like this:
My first instinct was to find the content. It was right there in the center between the navigation and the ads. So far so good!
Next, I focused on the actual content. At the top, I saw an image of a messy assignment written by a student suffering from ADD. Below that was text relating a story I have heard at least twice a year since I was 7 years old.
This blog did not frighten me; it bored me. I thought: get to the point already!
Out of curiosity, I scrolled past 56 introductory words to discover the main point of this blog article. It’s this:
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Absolutely ridiculous. There should be a test to let people open blogs.
Feel free to review some of mine:
http://askjasonbusiness.blogspot.com/
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That was a good one. Though I like the site design and layout of copyblogger, I find the content pretty boring too. What do you feel about the other blogs which Chris asked you to do your homework on?
I just commented on Pro-blogger. You’ll laugh when you see it. (And I love pro-blogger!)
That is a crazy looking website. Is it real?
Quite real! I added the boxes though to show my reaction.