Web Development Blog - Does it Play in Peoria?
Back in January, Jon Lee started his Web Development Blog. I found it in late February, when I realized my intense interest in blogging, and have been a regular reader ever since. Jon is asking for reviews of his site in order to improve the site and to gain additional traffic. In late March, he took my Geographic Content post to heart and made his own post stating the best city in the world. To go with that theme, and me being from Peoria, Illinois; I’ve decided to review his site as to whether the site plays in Peoria. If you’re not aware, this saying was a common term back in the vaudeville days. Wikipedia explains it better than I could so here is a snippet:
The saying, “Will it play in Peoria?” is traditionally used to ask whether a given product, person, promotional theme or event will appeal to mainstream (also called “Main Street“) America, or across a broad range of demographic/psychographic groups.
It has become a shorthand phrase in American business, with historical ties to Peoria, a diverse, metropolitan, mid-sized city located in central Illinois.
In the United States, Peoria, Illinois, has legendary status as a test market. Peoria has long been seen as a representation of the average American city, because of its demographics and its perceived mainstream Midwestern culture.
The phrase initially came into fashion during the vaudeville era, believed to have been first asked by Groucho Marx when putting together a new act. The belief was that if a new show was successful in Peoria, it would work anywhere in America.
That being said, a positive review from BlissLogs could be the predictor to a successful blog. I usually like to include just as many items to work on as I do items I like during a review. I can’t really do that with Jon’s site. I was only able to come up with 2 main items that I would change about the blog and one of them was fixed a couple days ago before I could get this post out. That one was to include the use of a favicon on his site. Since that has been taken care of, the sole gripe I have about this site is the manufactured RSS readers. He is displaying a number in his feedburner widget, however that number doesn’t appear to be the legitimate number of subscribers to the blog, which is what we have come to expect when we see that widget. However, that is easily overlooked when you consider all the good that is in this blog.
Then content that Jon provides on this blog shows that he is passionate about the topic. That topic being basically anything technology related. The WordPress theme used is clean and easy to follow. Speaking of follow, Jon was one of the original blogs that I read about participating in the Do-Follow movement. Another feature of this blog that sets it apart from the pack is that he uses the plugin that he created, ShowOff Rankings. This plugin displays the major site ranking ranks for your blog wherever you want them displayed. I could go on for a while as to all the things I like about this blog, but I’ll let you decide for yourself by visiting his site.
I guess you can already tell as to whether jon lee dot see eh play’s in Peoria. Of course it does!
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Posted on June 5, 2007
By Jason Spence
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