For this Project Blogger event, I decided to find a disinterested third party to grade Julie Ferenzi's blog, Living In Plainfield, Illinois.
I'm going to use Website Grader.
While my focus with Julie is not about the technical issues, but about the content, knowing this information is important. You should know it about your site as well.
We just moved Julie from her old, free, Wordpress.com hosted site, to her new self hosted Wordpress blog on our servers. So, it's only been up less than 48 hours. That means not a lot of activity should be reflected. That means that NOW is the right time to do a baseline grade.
A link to the report card is Here. Based on the overall rating, the only place to go is UP! (The original blog we created at Wordpress.com was given a 62/100 overall rating. You can see that report here.) For comparison only, the same report run for Greg Swan's apprentice's site, TheBrickRanch.com, which has been up just a bit longer, yields a score of 40/100 for all websites and 26/100 for business blogs. That report is here. Time and content alone will cure many of the woes that create the low scores. That is evidenced by the exact same content being rated higher on her old blog. In fact, the scores may not even be the same when you click on the links above, perhaps influenced by this very post. The links in this post will help both Julie and Terri. :)
Here are the major details on what Website grader came back with at the time of the report:
WebSite Grade For http://www.livinginplainfield.com : 29/100 (overall)
A website grade of 29 for http://www.livinginplainfield.com means that of the thousands of websites that have previously been submitted to the tool, our algorithm has calculated that this site scores higher than 29% of them in terms of its marketing effectiveness. The algorithm uses a proprietary blend of over a dozen different variables, including search engine data, website structure, approximate traffic, site performance, and others.
The software is constantly being upgraded and the algorithm enhanced. The number of potential recommendations provided by the tool is also increasing frequently. Please check back often.
Compared To Other Business Blog Websites : 22/100
Type Specific Score: http://www.livinginplainfield.comWhen compared to other Business Blog websites, http://www.livinginplainfield.com scored a 22/100. This means that it is has a higher score than 22% of the Business Blog websites that have been processed by the system.
Google PageRank : 0
"Google PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves important weigh more heavily and help to make other pages important."
-From Google
Google Indexed Pages : 0
Measures the approximate number of pages on http://www.livinginplainfield.com that have been stored in the Google index. The Google web crawler will visit the website periodically and look for new content and store it in its index. Generally, the more pages a website has within the Google cache, the better.
The last time that Google has crawled http://www.livinginplainfield.com was March 26, 2007 @ 03:11 PM
Google Crawl Date : March 26, 2007 @ 03:11 PM
Google will periodically crawl websites looking for new and updated content. In general, it is desired to have the frequency with which Google crawls a site to be higher, rather than lower. Sites that get crawled more often have more frequent updates and more authority.
Inbound Links
One of the most important measures for a website is how many other sites are linking to it. The more links the better.Google : | 0 |
Yahoo : | 0 |
Alexa : | N/A |
MSN : | N/A |
Technorati Ranking : N/A
Technorati is a popular website ranking service. It measures the popuplarity of a given website as compared to all other sites that have been submitted to its system.This website currently has a Technorati ranking of N/A.
del.icio.us bookmarks : 0
del.icio.us is a web-based bookmarking site. Delicious users save their bookmarks on the website so they can access them from any browser. A website that has many users bookmarking it is generally popular and will get more traffic. http://www.livinginplainfield.com has about 0 bookmarks stored.Alexa Traffic Ranking : N/A
Alexa is an online service that measures the approximate traffic for millions of sites on the Internet.Currently, the site http://www.livinginplainfield.com is not being tracked by Alexa. This is usually the case if the site is relatively new or if the traffic level is not high enough to place it in the top million or so sites.
Readability Level : 11th Grade
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.I'll be using this as a way to see if our "focus on the relationships" strategy is working on the technical side as well.
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