What Is Your Website Grade?
written by John Chow
Darin Carter came across a tool that will actually give your website or blog a grade. Not only does this site Grade your Website, it tells you whats wrong with it from a SEO Standpoint.
Website Grader is a free SEO tool that provides an SEO score for your website with custom search engine optimization and marketing advice for your website. Use the form above to enter your website, your keyword phrases and your competitors to receive a report about the marketing effectiveness of your website.
Subscription to the site is totally free and it even gives you a chance to put your site up against other sites in your industry!
You can generate a report for your blog just by entering your URL and nothing else. However, you won’t be allowed to compare your blog to others unless your subscribe. I entered my blog into Website grader and got a grade of 99/100.
A website grade of 99 for www.johnchow.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 99% 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.
Only 99%? I thought I was better than that! 
What is your website grade?
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I guess my website doesn’t rank too well - this tool can’t even find it
It found my site and rated it 93 / 100
96 / 100 here.
That’s great!
I only got 76/100
Thank God It’s Friday!!!!
96 … I know you can at least get up to me Ed … pull that 98%
LOL
Darin
That is great congratulations
6 to go to bit the evil guy john chow 
Lol i read over some of the summary points and it says to read my blog you need an 8th grade reading level
I must not use words with more than 2 syllables then!
I think the grade reading level is useless. I have also a 8th grade.
Oh ho! I got a 9-10th grade on one of my sites. I really hate sites like that that do not define how any of the scores are actually tallied, so you can verify that you arent in some random magical case where it wont work…
My website didn’t do that well. It couldn;t even give me a score!
Ignore the link I provide above.
Thanks for sharing with us, i will definetely try this tool out now
WebSite Grade For http://www.sweethacks.com : 85/100 (September 14, 2007)
One thing which I found really useful is the Search Rankings: seems I am ranking better for a few words which I thought I wasnt ranked for!
Thanks for posting about this!!
My site scored a 73/100 - not bad considering it doesn’t even have any PR yet.
Thanks for the heads up on this tool John.
78/100 not very good
You can follow what are their suggestions and tweak it. It really works and teach you some basic seo here.
I’ve seen Darin’s site before and talked about it a while back.
I went back and regraded my site today and scored a 93!
I like this site because its not like a game or a meaningless number- it actually gives you practical SEO advice.
WebSite Grade For blog.rrdphoto.com : 75/100 (September 14, 2007)
Thanks for the link, John. This is a very useful tool!
I like the tool, however, if you input large sites like Google, they have a lower grade than John Chow!
because it depends on many factors as pagerank, technorati and others. Google don’t have any h tags etc..
I am banned from technorati (and don’t know why, just did what john chow did)
I think if I got unbanned I will increase on the ranking.
My website only scored 19/100
But from this I learned how to improve my web site! Thanks John, for posting this tools!
after 1 hour of fixing, I got a score of 47
This is a cool tool. My grade was a 62. That is not great, but not bad either. I guess I have some more work to do. I think that I got points docked for my website expiring in 197 days. It is set to auto renew though. I guess i can check back after the auto renewal and see if it changes. In that time it could get a lot better. though
I just got done making some changes. Went from a 62 to an 81. I’m sure there are some thing that could still use improving on. But it doesn’t seem like it would take that long to get your score up.
a little 71%
but it is ok… the site is new and no PR yet
Scored 98
71% for me.
92/100 for me.
Mine is 46 out of 100. I think the score wasn’t too bad but the most valuable thing is the information that it gives to the webmaster. I think this tool is great!
wow I guess not many sites have been submited yet, I got a 77% for my site, which doesn’t have a pagerank yet.
Well I guess that when more sites are submited the grade will drop, that is unless more sites that are worse than my submit.
My music blog, Earsucker, is at 63. I guess that’s not too shabby…
My site http://www.greatreeftanks.com got a 72, not bad considering I have a PR of 0.
It also say I write at a 5th grade reading level. haha! I guess that means I could write for the news paper!
No matter what this site says about my rank, I still need to get some more traffic. If you like Bacon then check out my blog!
Thanks!
I been using that tool since i created my blog a couple of months ago, I think Aaron Wall mention it on his SEO e-book, which I pirated from bittorrent
(not really, I did buy it) Is a great tool that can help you with some website problems, like domain age, 302 redirection problems etc. hey.. How many of you have read John Chow e-book? I think it kick ass, not to promote the cheap rat John chow on his own blog ( he got that name from the promotion he had about his his 22″ LCD monitor, can you imagine with all the money he makes giving out one of his old monitors he uses, John does that monitor still works?) but because I found his e-book even more helpful than the SEOBook 
I wrote a post about that on my blog. I think is buried on my archives already.
Cool, thanks for the link! My grad is 98%… nice!
93 but it keeps telling me I have no permenent redirect despite the fact I installed wordpress plugin that is supposed to redirect both the www and my dot com to my dot net.
It also says I have too many “meta keywords” and there may be “dilution” but I have no clue as to what that means.
Either way it’s a fun tool.
Doesn’t everybody know about this tool? Is that all you have to do to look cool is blog about different website tools?
yeah copper I had the same problem too, the problem probably is that you have too many keywords under your content, try to minimize your keywords less than 10, otherwise search engines will think you are trying to spam them. I don’t think google look at those anymore anyways, but other search engines might.
I;m at lunch so I’m blogging at my work? hehehe.
77 for acowboyswife.blogspot.com
Not too bad for a personal blog about nothin’
My site got a 94. usefulconcept.com I am kind of surprised at that really. Still I will take it.
My technology blog, JoeTech.com got a lousy 55/100… I don’t have a title tag or keywords?!? I had better investigate that action. Great tool, though… I’ve bookmarked it for future use.
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I got a 78/100
That is a very very cool tool btw.
Lori: great, but you cheated with your alexa ranking because it’s uses blogspot’s alexa ranking and not your blog’s
I didn’t realize I was cheating..sorry. Is there something I can do about that? I don’t want to be accused of being a cheater, that’s for sure!
I checked my rating again and it went down 10%. What gives? lol
This compares your site to others that have been submitted. By having so many new people use the tool any sites scoring better than yours will push you down.
I just scored an 89 on mine.
Not so bad, I got 76/100. WebSite Grade For myblogcontest.com : 76/100
Got an 86. Very useful tool. nice find
i’m shocked … clean that page up … LOL
Looks like a nice entertaining tool but I am not a big fan of such tools.
90 here
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