How Readability Score Affects SEO & Readability Calculators:-Did you know about that the way blog content is written is an integral part of on page seo? There is also a thing which is known as Readability SEO.
For those who don’t about “Readability” is one of those points which google uses for your search engine ranking. A poor readability level must be avoided.
What is Readability Level?
Readability meaning is different in terms of blogging- here it is easiness of reading an article.
There are so many ways to measure the readability of an article and text. Here are some commonly used readability calculators.
- Flesch Reading Ease
- Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level
- Coleman-Liau Index
- Gunning-Fog Index
All of these tools have a different method to check the readability score. For Example: here is the description of each Flesch Reading Ease Score.
- 0-100.0: Easily understood by an avg. 11 yr. old student.
- 0-100.0: Easily understood by an avg. 13-15 yr. old student.
- 0-30.0: Best for university graduates.
Here below on this page I have shared two readability calculators use them to calculate the readability of your content based on different reading indexes.
How Readability Score Affects SEO & Readability Calculators
How to check readability level?
You should have to check readability level of your website’s content. Go to https://www.webpagefx.com/tools/read-able/ & type your blog’s url. Then you will see result of your website’s readability.
Online Readability Calculator:-
If you are working on MS Word or Outlook then you can refer this knowledgebase to enable the readability check option. Now the MS Word only supports the Flesch Reading Ease & Flesch Kincaid Grade Level Scrores.
Another online readability check tool is “Online-Utility Document Readability Calculator”. You can use this tool to test the readability depends on various indexes. Just copy & paste your text, or add url and you will see the results based on
- SMOG
- ARI
- Flesh-Kincaid Grade Level
- Colenan Liau Index
The best part of this tool is that it also suggests which sentences can be re-written to improve your readability scores, which will create a big difference in long run. Moreover your article is understandable to more people if you have a good readability score.