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Review of Restoration and Cleaning Industry Blog

This review is one in a series that I’m posting on behalf of the students in Bud Gibson’s Blogging Bootcamp class at the University of Michigan.

Restoration and Cleaning Industry
http://restoration-catastrophe.portspaces.com/

Clean up your spelling and grammar. Language is very important in a blog. Choose your words carefully, and trying reading your post aloud after you have finished writing it. If you stumble over words, fix them. I see several sentences that don’t make any sense, lack punctuation, or simply don’t say anything. Typos and spelling mistakes, while essentially harmless, are glaring in print and reflect poorly on credibility. This is especially true of spelling mistakes that would have been caught by a spell-check application. Consider writing your posts in a good word processor and copying them into your blogging tool afterward.

If you are going to link to an outside side, explain why you think it is significant. I see a few posts that are essentially reviews of outside resources. These are great, but go ahead and say in the first sentence why you’ve bothered to review a site, and who is going to find the review useful. Also, be careful not to just repeat the claims made by the creator of the Web site you are reviewing. Exercise you own judgment about what is important for your readers.

I like the bit of levity interjected in the 5/24 post. Light jokes and humor always help to spice up dry content.

Be edgy! You’ve got lots of good reviews of Web sites. I don’t see anything negative or even slightly critical. Say what you really think and damn the consequences. OK, you don’t have to go to that extreme, but expressing a well-thought-through criticism increases your credibility, provides the reader with really useful information, and might help get your blog noticed. Critical posts get discussion going.

Posted by Susannah Gardner on 06/01 at 05:31 PM • Blogs

Comments

Thanks for the review Susannah. We appreciated your feedback. We will incorporate your feedback into our future blogs. Check back to our site for more information on the cleaning and restoration industry.

Posted by Aric on 06/12 at 05:51 PM