I’m currently reading Inbound Marketing, by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah, and in it they highlight a free service offered by their company — Website Grader. It’s a very simple report to run, you just plug your URL in, your competitors URL (optional), enter your email, and then generate the report.
For my report, I got a 95 out of 100. Not too shabby! There were some important things about my website I discovered by running this free report:
- Many of my images don’t have alt text/tags. This is helpful for the search engines as they can’t “see” images, only text. So after this post I’ll be fixing that
- My domain is set to expire in less than a year (yikes!). I know Google likes sites that will be around for awhile, so it’s time for me to renew my domain so Google knows I’m here to stay
Those were the two biggest takeaways I got from running the report on my website. You might have more, and that’s OK, the main thing is that you’re able to now see where the weaknesses are in your website and get them fixed!
Did you run the Website Grader report, or have you in the past? What do you think of it? What actions did you take after seeing your results?
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