4th March 2008

Weird Facts

posted in Blogs, Review |

For the first blog to be given a BuzzRank along with the review I present “Weird Facts“, a Blogspot blog that offers what it calls “your daily doze of odd news and weird stories that relate to web.”

It relates some odd facts and tidbits of trivia, a fair percentage of which are definitely strange bits of information at least in that anyone would ever think to collect them all in one place. On the other hand, strange little tidbits like this can be very entertaining if you manage to get enough of the right type of things.

Probably the one thing I could say to the author of Weird Facts is “Sometimes More *IS* better”. I believe that if the postings were more frequent there would definitely be readers interested in revisiting and / or subscribing via RSS.

Readability 8

Color combinations are reasonable and type size is easy to read although the link colors outside of the adsense blocks are a little pale

Layout 7

A mostly “plain Jane” Blogspot layout. What it lacks in fancy bells and whistles it makes up for by loading quickly. The adsene block right below the top entry on the page kinda distracts the reader a bit because it and the abbreviated post blur the distinctions of where the posting ends and where the advertising begins. The adsense block in the sidebar is better placed, visible but not intruding on the reader.

Load time 9

less than 10 seconds.. great

Scrollability 10

Perfectly smooth

Writing 6

Writing style isn’t bad but the author would do well to post more often.

Total Score 40

Weird Facts BuzzRank: 80%

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  1. 1 On March 8th, 2008, Traffic Generator (1 comments.) said:

    It is because of the lack of bells and whistles that the blog loads so quickly. When it comes to bells and whistles, i find i am not a huge fan. It is the words on your page that matter, not the grapphics that slow things down so much that half your potential visitors will lose interest.

    I agree with you that posts to any blog must be frequent to rank high in the search engines and to gain visitor loyalty

    Traffic Generator’s last blog post..Is Google Paying Webmasters Less Per Click?

  2. 2 On April 8th, 2008, admin said:

    Frequent postings are important, as is content with some substance. Lately I’ve not been doing any of either on BlogBuzz however that’s going to be changing.


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