How to increase your blog or website effectiveness with Websitegrader.com
March 20, 2008 – 7:04 pm
If you have a blog, then you probably spend a lot of time thinking about:
- your next post
- how to best convey your message
- where you will find sources for visual images
- how you can get more traffic
How to get more traffic
Okay, I’m not going to give you a list of things that you can do to increase your exposure or tell you how to get other people to link to your blog or web-site.
I’m going to tell you to visit Websitegrader. Simply input your url (or any url), scroll down to the bottom and click on the “generate report” button. Websitegrader.com will run a series of diagnostics that analyze your blog/website for:
- On-page SEO – which includes things like number of keywords (and why you don’t need more than ten), header summary, image summary, interior page analysis and readability level
- Off-page SEO – domain info, google page rank, google indexed pages, date google last crawled your site, links
- much more – you’ll be amazed at how much info they can provide you about your blog and how to make it more marketable
- free – that’s right, it’s free
My initial results sucked!
The first time that I ran soupornuts.com and therotater.com was pretty sad. I think that I scored a 79/100 for soupornuts.com and 63/100 for therotater.com. The beauty of Websitegrader.com is that they tell you what you can do to correct the problem.
For example, after I found out how low my sites were scoring, I got busy. I would make changes and check again. Pretty soon, I was scoring in the 90’s for both sites.
I ran soupornuts.com through just prior to beginning this post to see where I stood. I was surprised to see a score of 88/100. After a quick check, I saw that three of the images on my page did not have alt tags. I quickly corrected those and ran websitegrader again. Poof – 92/100!
I just ran therotater.com and it scored 92/100 as well.
More tools and information
Websitegrader.com can also check your site to see how it is grading for your keywords and how it compares against your competitors. And they have a great blog.
No matter how many times you use this service, it cost nothing and provides you with invaluable information. Give it a shot – you won’t be disappointed.
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5 Responses to “How to increase your blog or website effectiveness with Websitegrader.com”
Thanks for writing about Website Grader. We’re happy you have found it useful!
Thanks,
Mike Volpe
VP Marketing
HubSpot
By Mike Volpe on Mar 20, 2008
sounds like a good tool
By poetryman69 on Mar 21, 2008
Mike - you guys are on your game. I certainly didn’t expect to hear from you personally. You have a truly exceptional product and now you are impressing me with your customer service and willingness to follow - up on every opportunity. Great job.
poetryman - you’ve got to try it to appreciate it.
By Chris Melton on Mar 21, 2008
My score for Spiritual Journey Of A Lightworker is 81/100. I see that as being good with a lot of room for improvement. I need to find a class that teaches me how to do more of the technical stuff to having a blog. My site is operating from the little bit of knowledge that I have picked up from other bloggers. Thanks for this article. It gives me more to work with.
Patricia - Spiritual Journey Of A Lightworker’s last blog post..What Is God?
By Patricia - Spiritual Journey Of A Lightworker on Mar 21, 2008
Hi Patricia,
It can be a little intimidating when you see some of the information. I am by no means an expert, but the big thing is to just dive in and try to make the suggested improvements and then retest. I’m glad that you found the site useful.
By Chris Melton on Mar 21, 2008