Isn’t wonderful when you find something that fills a need and it’s free! I think so too!

Ever wonder how your site stacks up against your competition? Want to know where you can improve your website? How do you know what SEO you are doing is working? Be real…you know you just want to see if you have stomped your competition yet! LOL

Check your SEO and site stats with Website Grader. This free website is developed by HubSpot and prides themselves in having done marketing reports for 1,000,000 URLs and counting. You will definitely want to check out Website Grader quite frequently.  Okay, how do I get this great free grading service?

1. Visit www.websitegrader.com
2. Enter you Website URL
3. Enter the website for your competitors you want to be measure up against
4. Include an email address in the last box so you can receive the final report
5. Click on GENERATE REPORT
6. Watch the cute little HubSpot icon generate your grade

Check Your SEO with Wesite Grader

Here’s all the valuable information you will receive from using their free website grading service.

Your Website Grade – You can see www.themoxiemomblog.com has a grade of 96.2.
I. On-Page SEO

• Metadata – Page Title, Meta Description, Meta Keywords that tell search engines what your site is all about.
• Heading Summary – Headings and Sub-headings are like chapter titles to a book and help search engines and readers catch what the web page is all about.
• Image Summary – Images are great for your readers but do you have them optimized for search engines?
• Interior Page Analysis – Interior pages can help you to use keywords to their fullest potential.
• Readability Level – KISS – Keep it Simple Stupid! Know your target audience readability level and adjust accordingly.

II. Off-Page SEO

• Domain Info – Registering your domain for at least 3 years will show search engines you are serious about your website.
• Google PageRank – Google uses many factors to calculate how important your website is to the internet world.
• Google Indexed Pages – How many from your website pages does Google have stored?
• Last Google Crawl Date – When was the last time that Google crawled your site. Yes, you want Google crawling your site!
• Traffic Rank – Displays your Alexa rank.
• Inbound Links – Lets you know how many inbound links you have to your website. This is how many other websites have links pointing to some page on your website.
• DMOZ Directory – Are you currently listed in the highly regarded DMOZ directory?
• Yahoo! Directory – Another highly regarded paid directory
• ZoomInfo – Is your site currently listed in this business and search engine directory?

III. Blogosphere

• Blog Analysis – Does your website contain a blog?
• Blog Ranking – How does your blog rank on Technorati?
• Recent Blog Articles – Displays the last three articles from your blog.

IV. Social Mediasphere

• del.icio.us Bookmarks – How many instances of your domain or sub-domain are listed on del.icio.us?
• Digg.com Submission Summary – Lets you know if anyone has dugg an article about your website. Unlike the dachshund going to China in the backyard, you want someone digg-ing you

V. Converting Qualified Visitors to Leads

• RSS Feed – Looks for an RSS Feed on your website.
• Conversion Form – Does your site contain any web forms that helps turn visitors into leads or customers?

VI. Competitive Intelligence

• Keyword Grader – This cool little area compares your keywords against the competitors website keywords you listed on the initial page.
• Competing Websites – A summary of some of the information you have already seen reported.
• Historical Data Available – If you have ran this grader before this will give you the past dates you used their site.

Remember when you entered your email address? Within minutes HubSpot will send you an email with a link to you free report to share or put the badge on your website. They will re-grade your site occasionally so keep checking back for an updated grade.

This is an excellent, easy and simple way to check yourself on your website SEO skills. Test it out and see how you rank? Did you make the grade?

Tip: Don’t just check your website or blog but also check some of your social networking sites too! You might be amazed to see how you are doing against your rivals.

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