Great Tools to Grade Your Online Presence
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A while back I told you all about an amazing tool called ‘Website Grader.’ It’s a great resource that uses all kinds of factors to grade the overall effectiveness of your website.
They calculate in how many of your articles have been dugg, how many back-links your site has, how many images are on the home page, the meta tags used, and much more. If you haven’t used this tool to assess your website then you really need to consider it.
Site Sketch 101 is less than 3 months old and yet because I’ve studied the reports that this tool produces, I’ve already achieved a score of 99.2. That means that my overall score is better than 99.2% of all other sites that have been graded by this system.
The website www.sitesketch101.com ranks 11,371 of the 1,383,643 websites that have been ranked so far.
So you want to try to beat my score? I honestly want you to beat my score. In fact, I’ll do whatever I can to help you pump up your score and make your site better than it is today.
Stop by Website Grader and get your report and then come back here and let me know what your score was. Look over your report and let me know in the comments section of this article any questions you have about its critiques. I promise that I’ll help you make it better.
Great Tools to Grade Your Online Presence
One of the most amazing things about the people who made Website Grader is that they didn’t stop working when they created that tool. They kept working and have now created several other amazing tools for grading other aspects of your online presence.
- Website Grader – Free SEO tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website. Website Grader has graded over 1,000,000 sites and won numerous awards.
- Twitter Grader – Twitter is all the rage with tens of thousands of new users joining every day. Twitter Grader is probably the most popular online tool for measuring the power, authority and reach of a Twitter user. How do you stack up on Twitter?
- Blog Grader – How effective is your blog at marketing yourself or your business? How does your traffic compare to the millions of other blogs out there? Do you have strong authority and trust in the eyes of Google? Use Blog Grader and find out how your blog ranks.
- Facebook Grader – Did you know that there are over 200 million active users on Facebook? Or, that thousands of businesses are setting up Facebook pages to help reach their potential customers? Facebook Grader helps you measure the power and reach of your Facebook user account or business page.
- Personality Grader – Evaluates your personality. All you need to do is specify your first and last name. Personality grader will then analyze your personality and give you a customized report.
If you have a website, a blog, a twitter account, or a facebook account then I highly recommend you check out these graders and find out what you can do to be more effective.
Group Discussion
What did you score when you graded? What areas can you work to improve? What questions do you have for me? What can I do to help you be more effective on your website or blog?
Eric B. said:
I’m waiting for my report at Website Grader right now, and I’ll check out the other ones, too!
Eric B. said:
My Website Grade is at 81, which is much better than I expected. It said that I had too many meta keywords, and that I sould submit my site to some directories.
My Twitter grade is 91, which sounds pretty good.
My Blog Grade was, unfortunately, 22. It says that my Alexa rank is 1,474,859. It also says that my readability level is 11th grade, so I guess I should work on that, too (which probably isn’t good, because I’ve started doing some of the things that I write about at my blog since 5th grade).
I also scored 26.75 for my Personality Grade. It says that I use Caps Lock too much, which would never happen, unless I decide to become a Cobol programmer (It actually could be because of SQL queries written on my blog). It also says that I share too much about my personal life, instead of having meaningful conversations. How personal would they consider to be personal?
Nicholas Z. Cardot said:
Eric B. –> The thing with the Meta Keywords is that if you have more than ten, then Google and Yahoo consider you to be spamming keywords. They assume that you are just trying to get listed for all kinds of nonsense. I add between 6 and 9 keywords for every article at this site.
Also, I have to admit something to you. The personality grader was released on April 1st as an April Fool’s joke and it gives the same response to everyone.
Eric B. said:
I’ll remove my meta keywords that are less important, and I’ll be sure to disregard the personality grader (I felt like it was pretty inaccurate)
Nicholas Z. Cardot said:
Eric B. –> Ha ha. That’s weird because mine was really inaccurate also….
Sat Chen said:
This sounds intriguing. i will have to check it out after I am done with my website.
Dave Sparks said:
I rank of 54, which isn’t too surprising as I only have a holding page up whilst I complete a redesign and re launch.
Nice tool to use though by the looks of it.
Dave Sparks said:
I’ve just re-read this article, I had no idea site sketch was so young. You’re doing well for such a new site – well done.
Nicholas Z. Cardot said:
Dave Sparks –> Yeah. I just read today that eBay was launched 14 years ago today. It has taken them 14 years to build the empire that they have today. I’m not even 3 months into my journey toward success yet and I’m very excited to see where this site will be as I journey into the future!
akira07 said:
Me too dave, i just know sitesketch is so young. The look and article contained is make this blog looks like professional blog which already established for a long time.
And from this blog grader result show it all
Nicholas Z. Cardot said:
akira07 –> Thanks. I try to make it look as professional as possible.
Bruce Teague said:
My grade was an 88. When you last posted about the website grader I received a 70. I’m pretty happy with the improved score. Now to work on getting an A. I’ll try a few of its suggestions and grade myself again here in a bit.
There really wasn’t much I could do. I added a little meta data and signed up for some of the directories, but still got the same score. It appears the rest of the score is up to the popularity of the site which I can’t make strides in, in just a few minutes.
There was also my site expiring in less than a year and the fact that I have too many pictures. Pictures are a big part of my niche though, and I’m not renewing today. My score is the best I can have it be for today, and I guess that’s all I can ask.
Nicholas Z. Cardot said:
Bruce Teague –> The grade itself is definitely the funnest part of it, but the suggestions are the most important part. Just do what you can and the rest will fall into place later on.
Daniel A. said:
I got a 77 on my twitter grade. Its that good or bad?
Nicholas Z. Cardot said:
Daniel A. –> I’m not really sure if it is good or bad. I know that it is better than 77% of people who have been graded by that service so it is way above average.
Arisu said:
I don´t have anything to mesure on my blog yet, but I have 75.5 in Personality Grade … I´m slightly offended by that 56 on intelligence… and really amused by “but we are extremely positive that you need to cease your use of emoticons”.
Excellent tools, Nick, I didn´t know any of them existed before reading this post. Thanks a lot.
Bruce Teague said:
I’ve seen you commenting on here a while and I’ve always been curious of when your blog will go live?
Arisu said:
Well, hopefully next week! Or the week after that
I just want to finish 2 more posts – my logo is almost done and the theme too, so if I can to pull out this tutorial about how to calculate the right size for the text in a column this weekend, I´ll be done.
Nicholas Z. Cardot said:
Arisu –> I can’t wait to see it. I’m really excited about it.
Eric B. said:
I can’t wait to see it. What will you mostly be blogging about?
Arisu said:
Thanks, I´ll let you know when it´s up and running.
I´m gonna write about design and a little bit of bloggin since it´s hard to find quality content about bloggin in Spanish. But I´m gonna put a little “Google Translator” thing in case you wanna stop by. I´d love you to read my blog
Nicholas Z. Cardot said:
Arisu –> I have to tell you that the personality grader is a complete hoax. It was an April fool’s joke launched by their company. Everyone get the exact same response. You are welcome to maintain your current use of emoticons!
Arisu said:
Yeah, I knew my twitter account was too well positioned
Altough I know I´m one of the people that use the biggest amount of emoticons XD
Very funny indeed!
Sat Chen said:
Dumb question: Have you bought the domain name?
Arisu said:
Yeah, I already have the domain, the host and wordpress up and running… I just need to prepare and do the big launch ^^
Nicholas Z. Cardot said:
Arisu –> I can’t wait. I’m looking forward to it.
Casey Brazeal (North and Clark) said:
I say if emoticons are your flavor than let your freak flag fly! There’s no algorithm for individuality. Take the advise that benefits you the most.
Arisu said:
I just think emoticons let you express yourself better, in ways simple words can´t.
But I would never use them on a blog post or something like that XD Just comments, tweets and messenger.
Nicholas Z. Cardot said:
Casey Brazeal (North and Clark) –> I agree. There are some things that you should change to be more effective and there are some things that you should stick with in order to be an individual. I think this is one of those things that help you to be a fun, unique individual.
Evan Kline said:
I’m not sure how I missed this tool, but I’ll definitely be checking it out this weekend. Thanks!
vasiauvi said:
Thanks for this Grader links.
I’m trying right now but it’s taking a lot of time!
vasiauvi said:
“The website vasiauvi.blogspot.com ranks 350,053 of the 1,434,395 websites that have been ranked so far.”
I can’t believe it!!
I thought that I will be in the last position!
Nicholas Z. Cardot said:
vasiauvi –> That’s pretty good. Did you hone in on some of the suggestions and work on improving your site?
vasiauvi said:
To be sincere I didn’t make any changes for optimizing the site for search engines. I’m not a web designer, only a poor electrical engineer
.
But hope to go higher!
Thanks again for the links, it given me some boost of confident!
Nicholas Z. Cardot said:
vasiauvi –> They help a little bit but those meta changes really aren’t as important as providing great content that others simply want to link to.
Arisu said:
Congrats!! That´s a pretty amazing rank.
Keep doing such a great work!
Steven Corbett said:
Ha! What a cruel prank! I got a little suspicious when it said it was reading my facebook wall and tweets!
Nicholas Z. Cardot said:
Steven Corbett –> Yeah. I thought it was pretty funny so I included in today’s list. I figured that people would probably enjoy it.
Joe Cassada said:
My blogspot blog received a 74. I apparently have no meta keywords…which makes sense, ‘cuz I don’t even know what they are or how to get some.
I am not a techy. And it shows.
More confessions of a non-techy: delicious has been around for awhile, but I’ve never really known what it was for. I could use an online bookmarks depot. Firefox seems to mess up my bookmarks and Chrome seems to be a bit quirky sometimes. Maybe I could switch back to Firefox and put all my bookmarks on delicious.
just opened my delicious account and imported bookmarks. Very cool!
Gonna add sitesketch to my delicious account(hadn’t bookmarked it yet in Chrome).
Nicholas Z. Cardot said:
Joe Cassada –> I’ll have to write up some posts about Meta data so that all the non-techy people who blog can work on improving their websites.
Also, thanks for bookmarking the site here!
Bruce Teague said:
A lot of people think meta data is dead. It’s so 1990′s…. What are your thoughts on it Nick? I still do a few keywords just in case, but I don’t do meta descriptions. I feel Google does a better job of pulling up what can be read in the SERPS than the descriptions I come up with. I only have one for the home page.
Arisu said:
I don´t know if they are as important as they were, but I still use them. And a few meta tags won´t harm your site, right?
Eric B. said:
I agree. Just make sure not to use too many unnecessary keywords, and a good description.
Nicholas Z. Cardot said:
Bruce Teague –> Google gets smarter all the time. We’re definitely past the days when you can spam Google with a bunch of meta data and get listed easily. It’s important to have it, but it takes a lot more than that nowadays to really get listed.
Eric B. said:
I’m not sure how to do it with Blogspot, but you can add meta keywords by adding this code in .
Just replace keyword1, keyword2 and keyword3 with your keywords. You can add as many as you want, separated by commas.
Be sure not to add too many, because as I learned from the website grader, you should probably keep it under 10.
Eric B. said:
Okay, I forgot to escaple my brakcets. Here you go:
<meta name=”keywords” content=”keyword1,keyword2,keyword3″ />
George Serradinho said:
Wow, I just checked out my blog and here are the details:
Website Grader: 99.4%
Blog Grader: 1,181 out of 9,781
Thanks man for sharing these sites, will be listing this post in next week Monday’s roundup.
Bruce Teague said:
Congrats man, that’s a phenomenal score. How would you say you got most of your inbound links?
Eric B. said:
That’s amazing! How do you do it?
Nicholas Z. Cardot said:
George Serradinho –> Those stats are absolutely terrific. Great job on building an amazing website!
Sat Chen said:
Amazing job! Tell us your secret
Mukund said:
I checked mine! But I came to know. I rank very poor. I feel this is mainly due to the domain in which I run. Many people have suggested to shift to a custom domain from the blogger domain. Once I do that, I will use this tool.
Nicholas Z. Cardot said:
Mukund –> I’ve actually seen a couple of blogs grow incredibly strong on blogspot domains. It’s difficult but it can be done.
Chris Cline said:
Here is my Website Grader rank:
Website Grade 91
Google Page Rank 2
Google Indexed Pages 571
Traffic Rank 6,408,919
Blog Rank 1,603,173
Inbound Links 3,142
Still working on it…
Nicholas Z. Cardot said:
Chris Cline –> Great. Now what I really want to see is what your grade looks like a couple of weeks from now. I hope to see you make it better and better.
Ron Boracay said:
Mine do have a pretty low stats (I think because, its a blogspot blog and I am just starting out to optimize it).
By the way, I also encountered this post:
http://www.dailyseoblog.com/2009/08/9-free-tools-to-check-social-media-backlinks-popularity-of-your-website/
Website grader is included on the list, and I do think, that list is awesome.
Nicholas Z. Cardot said:
Ron Boracay –> Thanks for the resource and for the great tools that are listed there. I’m definitely going to be checking them out.
Ron Boracay said:
I am glad I added some quality resource at this great blog of yours.
ZXT said:
Okay I’m trying this.
My blog is 11 days old today.
Website Grader: 79
The website http://www.nothingbutrandom.com ranks 304,674 of the 1,467,535 websites that have been ranked so far.
Traffic Rank: 6,478,925
Blog Rank: 1,603,173
Whoah! My blog rank is exactly the same as Chris Cline! How can that be?
Nicholas Z. Cardot said:
ZXT –> That’s pretty impressive for only being 11 days old. Great work and keep up the good work!
ZXT said:
@Nicholas: I forgot to quote you
“I’ll do whatever I can to help you pump up your score and make your site better than it is today.”
So can you give me some pointers about my site? Thanks in advance.
Nicholas Z. Cardot said:
ZXT –> Sure. What specific questions do you have? If you have use an Google talk then hit me up on instant messenger and I’ll be glad to provide you with some honest feedback. My messenger name is holas84(at)gmail.com
ZXT said:
Thanks for the offer. I’ll hit you up for sure. I just don’t know what time you are usually online but maybe I’ll just email you first.
Nicholas Z. Cardot said:
ZXT –> That sounds good. I look forward to hearing from you.
Mezanul said:
Here is my Website Grader rank:
Website Grade 96.3
Google Indexed Pages 243
Traffic Rank 682,245
Blog Rank 863,091
Inbound Links 968
The website http://www.mytechguide.org ranks 55,270 of the 1,514,941 websites that have been ranked so far.
Gotta work a lot to get to the top!
Nicholas Z. Cardot said:
Mezanul –> That’s already really good but you are right that you still have a little bit of work that you can do!
akira07 said:
Wow great blog and not bad stat. And i’m checked your site by myself. It’s good and make me wonder why this blog have no pagerank. And is this a reason you’re not write Google Rank stat in your comment? Hehe..
Nicholas Z. Cardot said:
akira07 –> I don’t have a lot of Page Rank yet because Google only updates their page rank servers every couple of months and my site is only 3 months old. It updated about a month into it and bumped me up to PR1 but it hasn’t updated again since then. I’m sure that it will soon.
akira07 said:
So can i advice you? Make a contest with great prize. But require people who want to participate to doing following things :
- Make blog post for you about your blog (1 blog = 5 entry)
- Tweeting about the contest (1tweet/day is allowed)
- Forum signature
-etc…
In the end of contest, the link will increased dramtically.
Nicholas Z. Cardot said:
akira07 –> I definitely like that but how in the world would I track all of those things? That would take forever.
ZXT said:
Okay its been 6 days since I did website grader but I think I improved now that my blog is 16 days old.
Website Grade 88
Google Page Rank Not Ranked
Google Indexed Pages 50
Traffic Rank 1,898,284
Blog Rank 1,603,173
Inbound Links 182
The website http://www.nothingbutrandom.com ranks 183,240 of the 1,515,303 websites that have been ranked so far.
del.icio.us Bookmarks 0
Nicholas Z. Cardot said:
ZXT –> It looks like you’re moving up nicely. Keep up the great work.
Brandon said:
I’ve used this tool and am impressed with the result in regard to site stats, but I get mixed results each time I run the grader. In July the site had a rank of 98% – now around 85-89
http://WWW.FINDITLOCAL411.COM
Website Grade 85
Google Page Rank 4
Google Indexed Pages 27,200
Traffic Rank 1,872,425
Blog Rank Not Ranked
Inbound Links 565
del.icio.us Bookmarks 0
http://WWW.FINDITLOCAL411.COM/BLOG
Website Grade 89
Google Page Rank 3
Google Indexed Pages 27,200
Traffic Rank 1,872,425
Blog Rank 3,197,294
Inbound Links 19
del.icio.us Bookmarks 0
Ron Boracay said:
Lots of pages indexed. Nice coding and great SEO too.
ZXT said:
Wow 27k indexed pages!!! Do you have that many pages?
akira07 said:
Ok here is website grader result for my blog :
Website Grade 69
Google Page Rank Not Ranked
Google Indexed Pages 31
Traffic Rank 2,053,848
Blog Rank Not Ranked
Inbound Links 545
del.icio.us Bookmarks 0
Haha, poor stat
It’s not strange since i’m rarely update my blog
Nicholas Z. Cardot said:
akira07 –> Just make sure that you take it’s recommendations and work to improve it. You can do it.
akira07 said:
Thanks for your support. Actually after reading article in this blog, i know my stat will be increased by following this point :
1. Learn proper grammar first
2. Provide unique content
3. Make a contest like this blog
4. activate do follow
Nicholas Z. Cardot said:
akira07 –> Good. Figure out the points that you need the most and then work to be the best you can at them.
Ana said:
Wow, that’s amazing. I am so very happy for you, especially in your first three months. That website looks like a useful tool to check stats. I am awaiting my report now. I’ll let you know, how it goes.
Ana said:
Nicholas,
Have just received my results, and they aren’t surprising as I worked very hard (and still working on it now) when my domain was originally a forum:
Website Grade: 95.9
Google Page Rank: 3
Google Indexed Pages 149
Traffic Rank: 577,786
Blog Rank: 408,642
Inbound Links: 8,389
The website http://expressiveworld.com ranks 61,469 of the 1,535,543 websites that have been ranked so far.
Thank you so much for this very useful tool!
Ana said:
Thank you Akira07,
That is most generous of you to spot that, and to check out my site and give an honest opinion about it.
I appreciate your thoughts imensely alongside your encouragement.
Kind Wishes to you.
Nicholas Z. Cardot said:
Ana –>Great work! Your site is better than 95.9% of all other sites. That’s really good. But don’t stop making it better.
Nicholas Z. Cardot said:
Ana –> Thanks. Make sure that you learn from the advice that it gives you!