Comments on: Get SEO Score for your site with Website Grader http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html Blogging, Social Media, Web 2.0 and Self Improvement tidbits Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:31:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: entrepreMusings » What They Don’t Tell You About SEO - Part 2 http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-4712 entrepreMusings » What They Don’t Tell You About SEO - Part 2 Tue, 04 Mar 2008 04:03:32 +0000 http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-4712 [...] triggered because I was sure I had seen reference to this site before and lo and behold Pearl at Interesting Observations had mentioned it back in October 2007!  I can’t remember the score I had on my blog when I [...] [...] triggered because I was sure I had seen reference to this site before and lo and behold Pearl at Interesting Observations had mentioned it back in October 2007!  I can’t remember the score I had on my blog when I [...]

]]> By: What's Your Website Score? | Dipping into the Blogpond http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-4655 What's Your Website Score? | Dipping into the Blogpond Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:20:39 +0000 http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-4655 [...] to Pearl’s SEO score for your website, where I saw this [...] [...] to Pearl’s SEO score for your website, where I saw this [...]

]]> By: pearl http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2289 pearl Mon, 22 Oct 2007 04:01:45 +0000 http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2289 Oh man, I stumbled that post a few weeks ago 'coz I wanted to come back to it some day - was too long to read and understand in one shot! I have some internal links but need to work more on them some more, these are created with aLinks Plugin and Ive noticed some articles getting linked to many times while others not at all; I have to read up on how the outbound links bring down the quality of links - am not clear on it yet! I think my topics are so varies, it might be confusing for the bots? I need to educate myself on this! can't say much :) will have to write on this topic some day soon then! thanks for explaining Colin ... Oh man, I stumbled that post a few weeks ago ‘coz I wanted to come back to it some day - was too long to read and understand in one shot! I have some internal links but need to work more on them some more, these are created with aLinks Plugin and Ive noticed some articles getting linked to many times while others not at all; I have to read up on how the outbound links bring down the quality of links - am not clear on it yet! I think my topics are so varies, it might be confusing for the bots? I need to educate myself on this! can’t say much :) will have to write on this topic some day soon then! thanks for explaining Colin …

]]> By: Colin http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2282 Colin Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:49:23 +0000 http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2282 Hi Pearl, I got the PR5 some time back, but it was through good backlinks to relevant (and some irrelevant blogs). Another interesting point is to create links from one post to another, without too many pointing to the same post. It's the one blog that I don't go overboard on memes, and will turn some down, because it limits the number of outgoing links, but adds to the number of inbound links using textual memes, and never to exceed a maximum of 30 outbound links - I usually keep it to 20 or less, depending upon the quality of links. I have broken what they consider to be sacrosanct rules about linking to blogs that are off topic without causing any damage. The important thing is the number of on-topic incoming links. Google sees a link from post A to post B as a vote for post A from post B. As I use wordpress.com I don't have meta tags etc, so it's down to content and internal and external linking. I also think that because I have blogged into a speciality niche that this has helped as I get far more links from yahoo and msn than google. The only thing I changed was several months ago, after my first few posts. I started to break them down into smaller paragraphs, and as my topics grew I was able to link internally from one post to another. This article explains it far better than I can: http://www.webworkshop.net/pagerank.html Look forward to your thoughts :) Colin Hi Pearl,

I got the PR5 some time back, but it was through good backlinks to relevant (and some irrelevant blogs). Another interesting point is to create links from one post to another, without too many pointing to the same post.

It’s the one blog that I don’t go overboard on memes, and will turn some down, because it limits the number of outgoing links, but adds to the number of inbound links using textual memes, and never to exceed a maximum of 30 outbound links - I usually keep it to 20 or less, depending upon the quality of links.

I have broken what they consider to be sacrosanct rules about linking to blogs that are off topic without causing any damage. The important thing is the number of on-topic incoming links.

Google sees a link from post A to post B as a vote for post A from post B. As I use wordpress.com I don’t have meta tags etc, so it’s down to content and internal and external linking.

I also think that because I have blogged into a speciality niche that this has helped as I get far more links from yahoo and msn than google.

The only thing I changed was several months ago, after my first few posts. I started to break them down into smaller paragraphs, and as my topics grew I was able to link internally from one post to another.

This article explains it far better than I can: http://www.webworkshop.net/pagerank.html

Look forward to your thoughts :)

Colin

]]> By: pearl http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2261 pearl Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:39:10 +0000 http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2261 oh wow, PR of 5? in that short time? Did you change anything Colin? or it just happened? oh wow, PR of 5? in that short time? Did you change anything Colin? or it just happened?

]]> By: Colin http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2236 Colin Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:18:01 +0000 http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2236 Hi Pearl, I re-ran the website grader :) Previous results were 75 & 6th grade reading level, google inbound links are 182, yahoo 1588. New results are website grade 77, Google PR 5, Alexa 950,728, Technorati 42,744, Google inbound links 185, Yahoo 1,551 and 7th grade reading level. So some minor changes, grade up slightly, google links up 2 whereas yahoo down 37 and reading level up fron 6 to 7. Try again later hahahaha Hi Pearl,

I re-ran the website grader :)

Previous results were 75 & 6th grade reading level, google inbound links are 182, yahoo 1588.

New results are website grade 77, Google PR 5, Alexa 950,728, Technorati 42,744, Google inbound links 185, Yahoo 1,551 and 7th grade reading level.

So some minor changes, grade up slightly, google links up 2 whereas yahoo down 37 and reading level up fron 6 to 7.

Try again later hahahaha

]]> By: Arindam http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2187 Arindam Sun, 14 Oct 2007 06:07:09 +0000 http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2187 Now a days, I think the traditional ways of building links won't help one website to rank better in SERPs. The algos are becoming smart and the bots are behaving even more smartly. Have you seen Matt cutts opined about <a href="http://www.mywebpp.com/blog/mattcutts-quality-of-directories/" title="Matt Cutts explaining about directory quality">directory quality</a>. Viral marketing of your website can fetch you good amount of links now a days. Now a days, I think the traditional ways of building links won’t help one website to rank better in SERPs. The algos are becoming smart and the bots are behaving even more smartly. Have you seen Matt cutts opined about directory quality.

Viral marketing of your website can fetch you good amount of links now a days.

]]> By: pearl http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2143 pearl Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:53:54 +0000 http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2143 welcome to the blog Steven and thanks for stopping to comment! @Colin... let us know what you find out Colin.....take care now... welcome to the blog Steven and thanks for stopping to comment!

@Colin… let us know what you find out Colin…..take care now…

]]> By: Colin http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2138 Colin Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:55:05 +0000 http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2138 Hi Pearl, That's a good comment from Mike of Hubspot, it clarifies things for us. I think we are all pretty much aware that google changes it's algorithms on a whim and much of what we would like to know from them is hush hush. PR isn't everything, I think for most of us we look for content regardless of what google think. I'll re-run the Grader early next week and let you know how it changes, should be interesting :) Hi Pearl,

That’s a good comment from Mike of Hubspot, it clarifies things for us.
I think we are all pretty much aware that google changes it’s algorithms on a whim and much of what we would like to know from them is hush hush. PR isn’t everything, I think for most of us we look for content regardless of what google think.

I’ll re-run the Grader early next week and let you know how it changes, should be interesting :)

]]> By: Steven Snell http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2135 Steven Snell Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:49:29 +0000 http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2135 That's a pretty nice tool. Thanks! That’s a pretty nice tool. Thanks!

]]> By: pearl http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2122 pearl Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:05:12 +0000 http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2122 Hey RennyBA - of course Blogging is just a hobby but takes up more time than I can afford right now :) My description and keywords are in the options of All In One SEO Plugin that I use.... Hope you get to see Mike's explanation on yahoo vs google links! Hey RennyBA - of course Blogging is just a hobby but takes up more time than I can afford right now :)

My description and keywords are in the options of All In One SEO Plugin that I use…. Hope you get to see Mike’s explanation on yahoo vs google links!

]]> By: pearl http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2121 pearl Wed, 10 Oct 2007 02:53:31 +0000 http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2121 Hey Colin I think the H1 tag is my theme's doing..... as Ian pointed out! Ian is one of the Award Recipients at Sandbox Theme for WordPress Design Competition so I take his word on it... time to change the theme!! :) Please let us know how you do when you run it again... I'd be curious to see how the links change! Hey Colin

I think the H1 tag is my theme’s doing….. as Ian pointed out! Ian is one of the Award Recipients at Sandbox Theme for WordPress Design Competition so I take his word on it… time to change the theme!! :)

Please let us know how you do when you run it again… I’d be curious to see how the links change!

]]> By: pearl http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2120 pearl Wed, 10 Oct 2007 02:46:58 +0000 http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2120 Hey Mike ... Thank you so much for coming out here and explaining. I am sure it'll be a relief to anyone reading your explanation.... Hey Mike … Thank you so much for coming out here and explaining.

I am sure it’ll be a relief to anyone reading your explanation….

]]> By: Mike Volpe (HubSpot) http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2119 Mike Volpe (HubSpot) Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:14:24 +0000 http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2119 This is Mike from <a href="http://www.hubspot.com">HubSpot Internet Marketing</a> (we built the <a href="http://www.websitegrader.com">WebsiteGrader SEO Tool</a>) Thanks for the review and the link. Let me try to answer some of the questions people have in the comments: 1) Google vs. Yahoo Inbound Links Both numbers are "correct" they are the numbers that the two search engines say you have in terms of links. However Google does not like to give good information, because they don't like people to figure out how to exactly compute Page Rank and things like that. From my experience, the Yahoo number is a lot more correct and is the one you should use for reference. 2) Reading Level This is based on the lenght of words, length of sentences and length of paragraphs. And higher (i.e. PhD level) is NOT better. You are better off with something lower, maybe around 8th grade. A lower grade level typically means that the content is more scanable, which means it is more readable, especially on the web. Thanks! This is Mike from HubSpot Internet Marketing (we built the WebsiteGrader SEO Tool) Thanks for the review and the link. Let me try to answer some of the questions people have in the comments:

1) Google vs. Yahoo Inbound Links
Both numbers are “correct” they are the numbers that the two search engines say you have in terms of links. However Google does not like to give good information, because they don’t like people to figure out how to exactly compute Page Rank and things like that. From my experience, the Yahoo number is a lot more correct and is the one you should use for reference.

2) Reading Level
This is based on the lenght of words, length of sentences and length of paragraphs. And higher (i.e. PhD level) is NOT better. You are better off with something lower, maybe around 8th grade. A lower grade level typically means that the content is more scanable, which means it is more readable, especially on the web.

Thanks!

]]> By: Colin http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2118 Colin Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:30:23 +0000 http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2118 Hi Pearl, Interesting tool and interesting results too. I was surprised to find the numbers of inbound links from both google and yahoo. I use Live Writer too and don't have a problem with h1 tags. I came out with 75 & 6th grade reading level, and there's me thinking I wrote in english too lol, google inbound links are 182, yahoo 1588. Where they get their figures from I have no idea.....maybe I'll run it again in afew days and see if it differs at all. Colin Hi Pearl,

Interesting tool and interesting results too. I was surprised to find the numbers of inbound links from both google and yahoo.

I use Live Writer too and don’t have a problem with h1 tags.
I came out with 75 & 6th grade reading level, and there’s me thinking I wrote in english too lol, google inbound links are 182, yahoo 1588. Where they get their figures from I have no idea…..maybe I’ll run it again in afew days and see if it differs at all.

Colin

]]> By: RennyBA http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2117 RennyBA Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:07:40 +0000 http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2117 This was really interesting Pearl - never heard about this excellent service, so thanks for sharing! I tried the score for my blog of course and the report was a very interesting read: Obviously I have to work on Web Page Structure as both Descriptions and Meta Key Words where missing or not found. Do you know if that is to be set up in 'Presentation' -> 'Theme editor' ->Header? It was also interesting to see that Google counted 0 inbound links where as Yahoo counted 2,424. I know I'm listed on almost hundreds of blogsrolls, so i wonder why? I really have to dig into this - when I have the time (blogging is after all just a hobby you know :-) This was really interesting Pearl - never heard about this excellent service, so thanks for sharing!
I tried the score for my blog of course and the report was a very interesting read: Obviously I have to work on Web Page Structure as both Descriptions and Meta Key Words where missing or not found. Do you know if that is to be set up in ‘Presentation’ -> ‘Theme editor’ ->Header?
It was also interesting to see that Google counted 0 inbound links where as Yahoo counted 2,424. I know I’m listed on almost hundreds of blogsrolls, so i wonder why?
I really have to dig into this - when I have the time (blogging is after all just a hobby you know :-)

]]> By: pearl http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2116 pearl Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:56:16 +0000 http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2116 hey Ian... you were caught in Akismet Spam queue ;) I changed its settings recently to catch any comments with links... was getting too many of those trackback spams.. this is blogging pro and I wanna change it to something else, can't make up my mind to what... every theme seems to have been over used and I want something clean and sharp at the same time.... you make me laugh each time Ian :) I thought I was good with spelling too but at least now they think I can write at the freshman level so as long as I am making progress, Im happy :D hey Ian… you were caught in Akismet Spam queue ;) I changed its settings recently to catch any comments with links… was getting too many of those trackback spams..

this is blogging pro and I wanna change it to something else, can’t make up my mind to what… every theme seems to have been over used and I want something clean and sharp at the same time….

you make me laugh each time Ian :) I thought I was good with spelling too but at least now they think I can write at the freshman level so as long as I am making progress, Im happy :D

]]> By: pearl http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2115 pearl Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:30:56 +0000 http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2115 <p>Oh darn it...LOL I AM part of a story Kim - how could I not know by now ;) thanks for clearing up my confusion ... Ive been worried sick about not being able to keep up with all the tags and memes and links!! will be working on 'em soon... too many things backed up!! </p> <p>thanks for stopping by again Kim... you know you are the best my Queen :)</p> Oh darn it…LOL I AM part of a story Kim - how could I not know by now ;) thanks for clearing up my confusion … Ive been worried sick about not being able to keep up with all the tags and memes and links!! will be working on ‘em soon… too many things backed up!!

thanks for stopping by again Kim… you know you are the best my Queen :)

]]> By: laketrees http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2114 laketrees Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:31:04 +0000 http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2114 very interesting stats Pearl.... I will have to check it out....as I have just started a 3rd blog at Wordpress too....so I will be able to compare..... btw....I read yopur comment at Deborah's site re christmas meme...I didn't tag you for it ...you were mentioned as part of the story ..lol very interesting stats Pearl….
I will have to check it out….as I have just started a 3rd blog at Wordpress too….so I will be able to compare…..
btw….I read yopur comment at Deborah’s site re christmas meme…I didn’t tag you for it …you were mentioned as part of the story ..lol

]]> By: Ian Stewart http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2110 Ian Stewart Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:32:55 +0000 http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2110 It's considered bad practice to have more than one h1 tag per page. It's meant to act as a <a href="http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/Use_h1_for_Title">top-level heading</a>. I presume it's the Blogging Pro theme that's doing this, not Windows Live Writer. …and I got a 95 with a fifth grade reading level. Ironically, when I actually was in fifth grade I had a twelfth grade reading level. I'm sure it has to do with the lack of technical words on my blog and nothing to do with my terribel speling. It’s considered bad practice to have more than one h1 tag per page. It’s meant to act as a top-level heading. I presume it’s the Blogging Pro theme that’s doing this, not Windows Live Writer.

…and I got a 95 with a fifth grade reading level. Ironically, when I actually was in fifth grade I had a twelfth grade reading level. I’m sure it has to do with the lack of technical words on my blog and nothing to do with my terribel speling.

]]> By: pearl http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2106 pearl Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:41:13 +0000 http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2106 Hey Ken..... I am not worried about the PR any more... don't worry about the things that are beyond our control :) I kinda like the tool and its descriptive report... AND if someone doesn't understand something, they offer a follow up phone call to explain things... Hey Ken….. I am not worried about the PR any more… don’t worry about the things that are beyond our control :) I kinda like the tool and its descriptive report… AND if someone doesn’t understand something, they offer a follow up phone call to explain things…

]]> By: pearl http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2105 pearl Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:31:47 +0000 http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2105 Hi Jessica ... any reason why you think these tools don't work? According to their site, more than 100,000 sites have been submitted and graded! Hi Jessica … any reason why you think these tools don’t work? According to their site, more than 100,000 sites have been submitted and graded!

]]> By: Ken Xu http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2103 Ken Xu Sun, 07 Oct 2007 22:23:14 +0000 http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2103 WebsiteGrader is an awesome tool. David Refer me to it before. It's quite promising but I just hope they could get me a PR prediction since Google haven't update me with anything. :) WebsiteGrader is an awesome tool. David Refer me to it before. It’s quite promising but I just hope they could get me a PR prediction since Google haven’t update me with anything. :)

]]> By: jessica http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2101 jessica Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:46:17 +0000 http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2101 I put very very little stock in those seo submit your url thing. I put very very little stock in those seo submit your url thing.

]]> By: SEO Rank http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2098 SEO Rank Sun, 07 Oct 2007 17:45:14 +0000 http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/10/get-seo-score-for-your-site-with-website-grader.html#comment-2098 <strong>Get SEO Score for your site with Website Grader...</strong> This score measures the approximate level of education necessary to read and understand the web page content. In most cases, the content should be made to be simple so that a majority of the target audience can understand it. ...... Get SEO Score for your site with Website Grader…

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