If a teacher was grading your blog what grade would it get? Would you like to get an A+? WebsiteGrader.com will check your blog and give you advice and tips on how to get a great grade for your website. Best of all, it is FREE!
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Here is what J. Robinson of SiteFever.com has to say about Website Grader,
WebsiteGrader will calculate your blog’s popularity in relation to other similar blogs in your niche and give you some great tips on how to improve its popularity and search engine ranking. It’s a really neat tool to keep handy.
J’s words got me curious so I went over and checked WebsiteGrader out. Below is the first grade Passionate Blogger got.
Passionate Blogger scored an 80. I scrolled down the handy list of tips that WebsiteGrader provides with your free report trying to find out how to improve my grade.
WebsiteGrader’s suggestions for Passionate Blogger:
- High Number Of Meta Keywords - We would suggest keeping the keywords to 10 or less. Currently, this site has 29 keywords in the meta-data.
I was wondering if I was using to many meta keywords in the header of this blog and this report convinced me. I quickly edited the header.php file for this blog and reduced the 29 keywords down to only 9.
- Domain Expires Within A Year - We would suggest renewing this domain with your registrar. Google and other search engines may penalize websites with domains that are set to expire soon. The reason for this is that many spam sites are often registered for short periods of time. Most registrars support paying upfront for several years and the cost is usually only about $10-$20 per year, so it is generally worth it.
I was not aware that your site might be penalized for not registering your domain name for more than a year. I’ll have to take care of this problem sometime next month when I have more room in my budget.
- Permanent Redirect Not Found - Search engines often regard www.passionateblogger.com and passionateblogger.com as two different websites unless you take specific measures to signal to them that they are the same site.
The best way to handle this situation is to setup what is known as a permanent redirect (or a “301″ redirect) from one of these sites to the other. This way, any links that are pointing to the secondary site benefit the primary site, from an SEO perspective.
I knew this tip but I had forgot to do it here at Passionate Blogger. I did a Google search for redirect plugins for WordPess and found the Permalink Redirect WordPress Plugin. I installed the plugin and now anytime someone visits Passionate Blogger and does not use the www. in the address they are redirected to http://www.passionateblogger.com/
- More than one H1 tag found - More than one primary heading tags (H1 tags) have been found on the page. Though this is not a critical issue, it is unusual for a web page to contain more than one heading tag. We suggest having a single primary heading per page.
Ok I am guilty of—sometimes—using more than one h1 tag on the same page. I did not make a change to this advice yet. I will do more research and see if I really agree with only using one h1 tag per page before I make this change.
After the changes I ran another WebsiteGrader report to see how these changes had effected my blog’s grade. Below is my 2nd grade for Passionate Blogger.
Wow, I went from a grade of 80 to a grade of 87! My site will score much higher once it gets a little older and Google finally gives Passionate Blogger a Page Rank.
What grade does your blog get?
My other blog Passionate America got a grade of 97. Passionate America gets a higher grade because it has been around longer, has higher stats, and has a Page Rank of 5.
What is your blog’s grade?
If you would like to quickly improve your blog so that it can be the best that it can be goto WebsiteGrader.com and get your free report.
How did your blog score? And what was its score after making the changes WebsiteGrader suggested?
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I’m glad to see you used the tool to help your blog out! And I’m glad to see you mentioned mine because now I found yours…
I really do believe I will see the popularity of websitegrader.com take off over the next few months because its more than just a few calculations to generate a worthless number. It actually gives you practical advice you can use to improve your site.
Anyway, I’m glad you liked it!
- John
Thanks for turning me on (that doesn’t sound right) to WebsiteGrader John.
I just wrote about popularity vs. community and sooooo could have used this before I wrote that post. I ran the report on Website Grader and it absolutely would have saved me so much time. I’ve edited my previous post to include a link to this one, as it is the perfect illustration for my readers that aren’t familiar with much of these ranking tools.
And, yes, I Stumbled this post. Learning more every day, thank you.
I got graded and I only have a 28%. I don’t understand half of the stuff it commented about and am confussed about the other half. It gave me a Google rank of 4 but I am ranked 1 for “disasterology” and 4 for “disasterologist” which are the two words I use as tags for all articles. See, I told your readers that most of this ‘how to’ stuff was aimed directly at me!
I’m wondering what the perfect number of meta keywords is at this point. In fact, I have had trouble finding keywords that really link well to my site that are also not over saturated.
I’ll make some changes based on their model and tell you how it works out in the end.
Here are my stats from Website Grader, also calculated 8/27/07:
Section www.writersnotes.net
Website Grade: 77
Google Page Rank: 0
Alexa Rank: 850,176
Technorati Rank: 61,772
Google Inbound Links: 45
Yahoo Inbound Links: 10,009
Delicious Saved Count: N/A
Google Indexed Pages: 494
I wasn’t too unhappy with that, because I’ve only been blogging since the end of January.
Jeanne
Forgot to mention that, for some reason, Website Grader couldn’t find my feeds–which is obviously a big part of the reason why my grade was somewhat lower.
I have a regular RSS feed and a (fairly new) Feedburner feed–both of which have subscribers, though not very many. I’m not quite sure why the tool couldn’t detect my feeds. I’ll have to check with the Orble techs on that one and have them look into it.
Jeanne
Thanks for sharing. We always love to see how others rank our website and how we’re doing to please the search engines!
Oh one more thing…
On the supplemental index. Not sure how we feel about all the hype. We cleaned out most of the files in our supplemental index and our Google traffic dropped to half. We started leaving the pages in, and our traffic went back up again. Coincidence? Who knows, but we’re not messing with it.
Megan/ Velveteen Mind, thanks for the link and the stumble. I found this tool very helpful, it has already increased my search engine traffic at my other site. Can’t wait to see what Page Rank Google gives Passionate Blogger.
BigMike, thanks for emailing me the report for NADS. I will look it over and see what I can do about improving the score for that site.
Jerad Kaliher, I’d love to see how these tips improve your site. I have a few sites I use to help find meta keywords. I’ll try to do a post on it soon.
Jeanne Dininni your score of 77 was this before or after you followed the advice in the WebsiteGrader report?
On your feeds, ask the Orble techs if there is a way to redirect all subscribers to only your feedburner feed. Having multiple main feeds just splits your subscribers and makes it hard to track the actual number of subscribers.
Dan and Jennifer thanks for the tip about Google’s supplemental index. I’m not sure if I’m a fan of messing around with it either.
Hi, Wild Bill!
I don’t think there’s really anything I can do to correct these problems. I don’t have access to the source code for my blog, since it’s hosted on Orble and only their techs can do anything with that. (Not that I understand much about that, anyway.)
I have no idea what font tags are, which was one of my yellow alerts, along with the RSS feed problem.
Also, Orble has both purchased my domain name and paid my web hosting fee for me; and I’m sure they wouldn’t want to pay for more than a year at a time (my red alert).
I’ve already asked their techs about redirecting my RSS feed to my Feedburner feed, and they’re looking into it.
Maybe I’ll ask them about the font tags, as well.
Thanks for the tip!
Jeanne
Wild Bill, I got a 71%. That sounds good to me since I have only been online since June 1. It says that I don’t have any Meta Keywords. What does that mean? Thanks for sending us to this site.
The background at NADS looks great! Thanks a bunch. I know you are realy busy and I just want to say I really appreciate you more than I can say. All yall have no idea how much work I dump on WB, and he always makes time for me. WildBill you are awesome!
This tool is pretty cool Bill, thanks for sharing :).
I received an 89/100. My blog is only about 3-4 months old and has 0 PR so that may have hurt a little bit but it looks like there are a few things that I can optimize still!
Wow! Great tool, thanks for sharing. It looks like I’ve got a lot of work to do.
No BigMike you are awesome!
Paul Bradish, an 89 is very good I suspect your pagerank is keeping you from scoring higher.
Priscilla Palmer you might forward your repost to me and I’ll see what I can do to fix any problems.
Bill,
I think that you are probably right. To everyone reading this, I was able to bump my score up to a 92/100 (up 3 points) by pre-registering my domain for an extra 3 years.
I’ve heard both sides of the coin on this particular issue and have always been on the fence in regards to it, but I also know that Google has never officially denied that having a domain with a longer registration helps your rankings in the SERPs.
Only time will tell I suppose!
I forwarded the test results. Some of the things on there I found really odd. Like it saying I have no diggs on digg it. Which we both know is not true. For some reason the test isn’t seeing it though.
I was a 92 at first and now I am an 88. I had the 301 problem which I fixed. And it also said I had too many meta keywords. So, I fixed that and my page score went down. Anybody know why? It also said that Google had not crawled my page since August 17th. That is weird.
I don’t have any Google crawls whatever that means.
Paul Bradish, glad to here that worked for you. I plan on registering my domain names for a longer period when I get back from the .
Priscilla Palmer the WebsiteGrader test is not perfect. If diggs server was responding slow when you ran the test it might not have been able to pull the information. I made some changes to your site and you now have a much higher grade.
samuraisoapbox, not sure why it dropped your score. I have noticed that WebsiteGrader is not showing the Google index of website correctly. They might have a glitch in the way they gather the information.
Patricia I’m sure Google is checking your site (since you are on blogspot), I believe Website Grader is just not pulling your Google information correctly.