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Returning to Website Grader – Peoples views

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

Back in November last year we wrote a post about the online free SEO tool known as Website Grader, used by thousands of users the well used SEO tool has started to be come under fire from some SEO companies, web designers / developers and general internet service people.

The website is built to scan your website and detect as many variables as it can such as; Pagerank, Incoming links, Headings, Image alt tags, blog ranking, rss feed and many, many more..

We wanted to share our findings and give a range of links to other blogs that have their own opinions. We hope to be able to offer all the views on this website and clear any mis-understandings that some users may have when using sites like these.

Are they doing anything wrong?

No is the simple answer, their website is a great tool and their are doing nothing wrong such as tricking people from what we can see and believe they are trying to create an online tool that will be able to offer a range of users / companies a helping hand in the SEO department.

Our thoughts…

Our team has been using Website Grader as a online tool for a good year and a bit now and as long as they keep up to date with new features we will continue to use them. Host Media UK has now got a score of 94/100 on the website which we are pretty happy with BUT want it a lot higher than that. We have found the website handy for giving our clients an idea of how our SEO work is getting on and how popular their website is getting (Along side Google Analytics of course).

It does target the non high usage internet user very well with its clean interface and compare tool which makes the site a bit more than just see your stats and be done with it. It becomes a more of a competition with your competitors to get your ranking better which we all here find fun some times and have a good laugh when we are a lot higher than other websites.

As I keep saying it is a tool, its meant to advice and not be taken as “My site is so much better than yours” as all designers / developers will know it comes down to many things to become high in Google (and other search engines).

We are not trying to persuade people to use this tool as each is to their own, but only trying to get a better view of how it works.

Articles on websites / blogs

http://www.wolf-howl.com/seo/why-website-grader-is-a-bad-idea/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/04/website-grader-gives-out-free-seo-tips/
http://doteduguru.com/id187-website-grader-free-site-audit-tool.html

Share your thoughts and comments about this issue using the comments box below.

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Using Coldfusion tag: CFFEED

Friday, March 6th, 2009

Using the ‘cffeed’ allows you to read any websites RSS feed and display it within your coldfusion page. The ‘cffeed’ tag is a very easy tag to use and can be very handy when building a RSS display website.

Code to be placed at the top of .cfm page:

<cffeed action=”read” source=”http://www.hostmediauk.com/blog/?feed=rss2″ name=”myRSSFeed”>

Code to be placed within the <body> tags:

<cfloop from=”1″ to=”#ArrayLen(myRSSFeed.item)#” index=”i”>

<cfoutput>
#myRSSFeed.item[i].description.value#<br />
</cfoutput>

</cfloop>

You can view this working on our Coldfusion 8 servers in the UK at:
http://www.hostcoldfusion.co.uk/

Enjoy using RSS feeds on your website.

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Our Website Grader Score

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

We have been working on improving elements of our websites so we can be found easier and allow our users better access to the site.

Using Website Grader we have scored 85/100 which is great news, and we hope to improve this to the 90’s mark.

A website grade of 85/100 for www.hostmediauk.com means that of the hundreds of thousands of websites that have previously been evaluated, our algorithm has calculated that this site scores higher than 85% of them in terms of its marketing effectiveness. The algorithm uses a proprietary blend of over 50 different variables, including search engine data, website structure, approximate traffic, site performance, and others.

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Check your search engine position

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

AeonCube Networks have brought a new website into our network called Check Your Results (CheckYourResults.com) with a great free tool which allows you to check your search engine position on the following search engines:

  • Google
  • Yahoo
  • ASK.com
  • MSN
  • Altavista NEW
  • Alexa NEW

Currently being looked at to add extra tools into the site to make a full domain name and SEO tool site. Extras also being developed such as Google UK search only.

New branding and design currently under development

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Rewrite URL for Permanent Redirect

Thursday, November 20th, 2008
This is a great SEO tip to get your website higher in the rankings as it puts more focus on your main domain name (either with or without the ‘www’).
Why use Permanent Redirects
Search engines may think www.yourdomain.co.uk and yourdomain.co.uk are two different sites. Thats why you should set up a permanent redirect (technically called a “301 redirect”) between these sites. Once you do that, you will get full search engine credit for your work on these sites.
The code is simple to use, all you need to do is open notepad / dreamweaver etc and save a file names ‘.htaccess‘. Within this file copy and paste the text in the quote area below.
Quote:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
#
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain\.co.uk
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

If you open a document window (PC) / finder window (Mac) you may not see the file this is because operating systems treat the .htaccess file as a hidden file. If you turn on show hidden files you will be able to see it.

Many control now have this feature, one that we use on Host Media UK is cPanel and this feature is on the control panel.

Enjoy!

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Website Grader

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

There are many sites that will check your SEO score but how many of them actually help? I have found the most useful SEO score system on the web and I have used many in the past.

WebSite Grader: http://website.grader.com/

“Website Grader is a free seo tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website. It provides a score that incorporates things like website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors. It also provides some basic advice on how the website can be improved from a marketing perspective.”

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