Apr 09 2008

Article Reviews #5: Blogs That Do Reviews

Magnifying Glass What constitutes a review? If it's a blog or other type of website, the review should tell you what it's about in general, about the design, and what kind of content is available there. There should be at least 2 or 3 outbound links embedded into the post. If it's an article review, or "speed-linking", it should at least tell you what the article is about and include a link.

Including the blog or website name in the post title, for a full review, should be common practice. Anchor text is important as well. It does that site no good whatsoever to include a link with anchor text (like "here") that isn't directly related to the content. I try to use this blog as an example of how it should be done, but even I fail to do it the right way all the time.

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