Here’s a free SEO tool called Website Grader that you can use to measure the marketing effectiveness of your home business blog or website. It provides you a score that incorporates stuff like your website traffic, SEO, and social popularity among others. It’s report also provides you some basic advice on how your website can be improved from a marketing perspective.
Here is the report for this Work At Home Ideas that I like to show you just so you get an idea of what you may find when you generate one for yourself:
A website grade of 91/100 for Work At Home Ideas means that of the hundreds of thousands of websites that have previously been evaluated, our algorithm has calculated that this site scores higher than 91.0% of them in terms of its marketing effectiveness. The algorithm uses a proprietary blend of over 50 different variables, including search engine data, website structure, approximate traffic, site performance, and others.
Here’s one of the many tables returned:
Section: work at home ideas
Website Grade: 91.0
Google Page Rank: 3
Google Indexed Pages: 214
Traffic Rank: 372,540
Blog Rank: 155,210
Inbound Links: 3,996
Well why don’t you try to find out how does your website or home business blog rank by just generating a report. It takes less than a minute to produce one.
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September 7, 2008 at 9:02 am
Hi, that was an interesting experience. I got a website grade of 70 and I thought that it was pretty good for a blog that is less than a month old. A couple of my other blogs got a grade of 92 and 90
The thing with this site is that not only does it give you a grade but it also explains why thereby giving you the information to improve your blog. A truly great find.
September 7, 2008 at 10:09 am
Hi Sire,
Thanks for dropping by. Yes I think it’s a very useful tool to find out quickly your SEO health state of your blog or site. Well my report also tells me I have too many images in my blog so it’s something I need to work on soon. Hope to see you again soon.
Peter
Work At Home Business
September 7, 2008 at 5:42 pm
I actually got the same reply for all my blogs and it is one that I plan to ignore as the images are necessary to the blogs functionality. The only problem with the images are that it slows the loading time of the page, but unless you are on dial-up I think it is barely noticeable.
Sires last blog post..Are You Maintaining Your Blog’s Profitability?
September 7, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Hi Sire,
You can actually use an image optimizer to reduce the image size by as much as 90% (in bytes) – it lets you make your choice of how much you want reduced. The link is in my post here:
10 Simple Tips to Fast Loading Website and Home Business Blog
Peter
September 7, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Thanks for the link, I did go to that site and reduced my header by 50%! The reduction in quality is noticeable but I can live with it. As for the page loading quicker, well to tell you the truth, I couldn’t really tell the difference.
September 7, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Sire,
Well if you have many images like me and wish to keep it is good to keep the image size as low as possible for new additions. 2 weeks ago my blog”s right side bar took 2 minutes to load and after reducing some images and especially unwanted widgets, got the blog loading up normally again.
Peter
September 9, 2008 at 12:09 pm
hello, I’m afraid to try this because I am literally new to SEO stuff even if I joined in some of the popular SEO contests. Is this tool safe to use?
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September 9, 2008 at 12:25 pm
@about capiz blog : Hi, This tool is perfectly safe. You’re not joining anything, but just checking your rank for your website by putting your blog or website url. It then generates a report showing you very useful information about your site. You then use the report to improve on your site to improve your SEO. Try it.
Peter
September 9, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Great tool Peter. That’s one I haven’t seen before. Thanks for sharing! SEO is very important so it’s good to evaluate your own from time to time and stay on top of it!
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September 9, 2008 at 6:58 pm
@Trent @ How to Make Money : Hi Trent, Hey thanks for dropping by. Yes I like this tool too. I do not agree with everything in that report but much of what is said is very useful. The good thing I like about it is it takes only one minute to generate it.
Peter Lee
Work At Home Business
September 9, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Thanks for sharing this tool I will make sure to put it to good use for my blog.
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September 9, 2008 at 10:26 pm
Section http://www.domainstructure.com
Website Grade 90
Google Page Rank 0
Google Indexed Pages 132
Traffic Rank 450,479
Blog Rank 554,938
Inbound Links 3,699
del.icio.us Bookmarks 1
Not bad for 2 months worth of work. Thanks for sharing this site.
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September 9, 2008 at 11:28 pm
@Jan Roos: Hi Jan, Thanks for dropping by and I’m glad you’ve found this tool useful. Do keep in touch and I will visit your blog soon.
@Domain Structure: Hi Brian, thanks for your visit and welcome! Congrats on your good result. Wow! just 2 months so you must be doing a lot of things right. Keep the good work and let us know how you’re progressing using this same tool as your measurement. Keep in touch. Hey I really love your post at Yan’s on Blogger to WP transfer.
Peter Lee
Work At Home Ideas
September 12, 2008 at 11:41 pm
You are more then welcome Peter and I am glad you liked my post on switching from Blogger to Word Press.
I have just been blow away from the improvements on my blog.. I was checking Grader again (im addicted) and had these stats returned this time.
http://www.domainstructure.com
Website Grade 91
Google Page Rank 0
Google Indexed Pages 148
Traffic Rank 437,482
Blog Rank 556,182
Inbound Links 4,161
del.icio.us Bookmarks 1
My blog rank slipped… but my incoming links increased by 462. Hopefully this will bring the blog from a PR 0 to a PR 4 in the next update.
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September 13, 2008 at 2:11 am
Hey Brian,
That’s wonderful news and at the rate you are progressing you are going to beat Yan (sorry Yan if you are reading this) who got PR3 in 3 months. What’s the secret of your success, if I may ask. I’m particularly interested to know where your links growth is coming from.
Peter
Work At Home Business
September 13, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Peter I get links from everywhere.. People who steal my RSS feeds.. Blog Commenting… Forum Posting.. Directory submissions.
If I am not writing a new article I will try and increase my incoming links to at least 100 new ones a day.
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September 14, 2008 at 7:56 am
@Domain Structure: Hi Brian, 100 new links a day that’s really remarkable. Do you do article directories, although one got to careful of content duplication when doing so. What about social bookmarking.
Peter
September 14, 2008 at 10:34 am
I used to do some article submitting but not anymore.. I use digg quite a bit. Help get pages indexed faster.
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September 14, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Same here. If I write something I either post it in my blog, on Helium, one of my forums or in the article section of my games site.
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September 15, 2008 at 11:12 am
@Domain Structure: Hi Brian, I too don’t do article submission anymore. I do social book marking mostly Onlywire, Socialmatic, Propeller, forum posting, and post in my blog.
@Sire: Sire what would you say your main source of traffic comes from, just curious.
Peter Lee
Work At Home Ideas
September 15, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Hey Peter.. how has the social bookmarking worked for you?
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September 15, 2008 at 6:48 pm
@Domain Structure: Hi Brian, I do get some traffic from social bookmarking sites but I noticed that for StumbleUpon I get more but only when others stumbled it and depending on how good the post title is. In my opinion I think such traffic is short term.
Peter
September 15, 2008 at 7:08 pm
@Peter Heck, never thought about it. Had a quick look at today’s stats and the majority is predominantly from Google.
September 15, 2008 at 11:54 pm
Peter.. in regards to stumble traffic I have noticed that it is great for short term gains but not long term benefits.
I can receive anywhere from 500 to 1000+ hits from stumble but after a few days the visits decrease. That is why I prefer digg. Less traffic.. but I feel as though the traffic is more beneficial for my sites.
September 18, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Website Grade 92
Google Page Rank 0
Google Indexed Pages 156
Traffic Rank 378,151
Blog Rank 409,737
Inbound Links 5,785
del.icio.us Bookmarks 1
Increase of 1,634 inbound links in 6 days.
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September 18, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Hey Brian,
Thanks for the update. That’s amazing my friend. Maybe this can become a great post of yours when you reveal your secret ” How to Increase 1,634 inbound links in 6 days”. That would be something…
Peter
November 18, 2008 at 1:57 am
Hi Peter,
I’ve been using website grader for quite some time now and it shows great insight that can be used to improve blog/website. Very meticulous calculation.
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November 21, 2008 at 4:07 am
Is meta keywords still important for SEO? I’ve only put a meta description up, and thought that meta keywords weren’t relevant any more. Is that correct?
November 21, 2008 at 9:47 am
@liweng: Meta keywords are viewed as important in some search engines compared to others. So don’t ignore it as you want traffic from as many search engines as possible.
-Peter
Legitimate Home Internet Business
December 2, 2008 at 10:31 am
Peter,
I ran the tool and got an 87. It did say that my meta description was too long by 18 characters. Not sure if this is a big deal or not but a great tool nonetheless. Thanks for sharing!
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December 2, 2008 at 11:12 am
@Steve Gitto: Everyone who uses this tool agrees it’s a good tool.
-Peter
Work At Home Ideas
February 28, 2009 at 9:39 am
You know what, the first thing I saw when I click on your site is your template. Looks neat.
Sorry, but as a designer, I appreciate such beauty. And you have a nice post as well. Thanks for sharing.
August 20, 2009 at 6:29 am
Thanks for sharing nice tool.This will very useful to get good page rank.I need more tools like this.
January 2, 2010 at 10:23 am
Cool link – I will have to check it out!
January 2, 2010 at 4:23 pm
Cool link – I will have to check it out!