Hubspot’s Website Grader – what is your SEO score?
Posted on 21 March 2008 by Russ
I can’t keep it a secret any more. There is a great tool available for free to grade your website’s (or blog’s) SEO score. This awesome tool is provided by a SEO and inbound marketing company called HubSpot. You can go to Website Grader and put your site in, along with your main keywords and a few of your competitors, to see where you stack up.
What to expect? Website Grader measures quite a few SEO characteristics, each of which is pretty important. In addition measuring the relevance of the content, the readability of the content as well as meta information, it also evaluates things like Google page rank, Alexa traffic rank, Diggs and other inbound links. Measuring, tracking and improving each of these elements will help your website (or blog) become more popular in the search engines.
Why on earth would I tell my customers about this? First of all understand that the first thing I do when evaluating a prospect customers as a good SEO client, is run their URL through Website Grader. I often print and show them the results. I have found that the information is more valuable to them, when they can see that it is coming from a non-bias, third party. Most of the time, my customers have no idea how to improve in any or all of these areas, so it helps me explain what the SEO picture looks like, without sounding too much like a “sales-guy.” Las thing is, if you find HubSpot through my site, and you decide to hire them, not me for SEO, please make sure you mention my name to them.
More about the HubSpot webinar here.
Tags | HubSpot, seo, Website Grader
February 16th, 2009 at 11:40 am
When you put it this way, it seems easy.
February 20th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
I really liked your blog!
April 6th, 2009 at 6:08 am
There is a great tool available for free to grade your website’s (or blog’s) SEO score. This awesome tool is provided by a SEO and inbound marketing company called HubSpot.
April 27th, 2009 at 10:13 am
Hey very nice blog!!
April 30th, 2009 at 10:41 am
Great work! I also have my own blog I just find it hard to write quality content like this.
I guess I really don’t have the time.
May 5th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
Website Grader is a good tool, thanks for sharing.
There are also other free tools than do essentially the same or very similar job, e.g. seoquake and seobook plugins for firefox. I use them quite often and they are great.
Regards,
Anton
June 12th, 2009 at 3:52 am
great info. you are the best!
June 17th, 2009 at 9:13 am
how to check SEO Score?
June 23rd, 2009 at 6:05 am
nice and very informative information
June 27th, 2009 at 5:35 am
Great tool.Hours of fun analysing my own and other websites!
Dom
June 29th, 2009 at 5:34 am
I don?t usually reply to posts but I will in this case. WoW
June 30th, 2009 at 9:31 am
There are also other free tools than do essentially the same or very similar job, e.g. seoquake and seobook plugins for firefox. I
July 12th, 2009 at 1:46 am
I use this as a sales tool to convince my prospects that they need my seo services. It is pretty convincing I have to admit. My website score is a 92 what’s yours? Hubspot is not really an SEO company per say, more of a conversion management system that you use yourself so I don’t think we will loose many clients to them.
July 25th, 2009 at 5:10 am
Haha – you don’t see posts like this too often
July 27th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Your post just made my day – so glad I got to read it,
August 11th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
You are right, this is a secret. Thanks for the great tip, my friend. Very useful.
August 13th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
Very interesting post. That site is a pretty informative link.
August 24th, 2009 at 6:03 am
I really like Hubspot’s Website Grader, and I use it quite a bit for initial website SEO analysis.
August 26th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
A really interesting link, ive just used it to check my score and i found it quite good. Thanks for sharing!
September 6th, 2009 at 2:44 am
Thanks. I learned and I bookmarked.
September 6th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
Thanks so very much. It’ll help me out
September 13th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
Related, and interesting, is the upcoming free seo software from friiso.com
September 28th, 2009 at 9:18 am
how to check my seo ranking? Is there a tools to use?
November 18th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
@oes – Theres loads of tools to check your seo, just do a search on Google. Nice site by the way.
November 30th, 2009 at 9:25 am
Hi this is a chill looking blog, I was just searching for this the other day. Glad I finally discovered what I wanted.
December 7th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
Hello
I bookmarked this blog. Thanks heaps for this!? if anyone else has anything, it would be much appreciated.
December 8th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
hey man thanks for the share im going to try this great seo tool rite away
December 21st, 2009 at 3:05 am
I love comments… I just started my blog a week ago, and have already received comments from a few people. (TechnoSpud and Cool Cat Teacher, of course) Wow!! How rewarding is that??
December 25th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
I think the real reason people pay so much for SEO is that they don’t have time or the inclination to learn–they have too much going on with the business they’re running and can’t stop to devote the time. It’s another case where busy people pay a premium for the stuff they could do themselves. Like freelance tax issues–I pay for my taxes to be professionally done, even though it’s no real mystery how to do it. Sad, eh?
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January 3rd, 2010 at 5:26 am
I hadn’t yet to think about the plainly simple ways the big G works. The truth of the thing is that a spider “indexes” your page multiple times, it still takes a metric tonne of due effort on your part in order to get a site to become interesting to the spiders. This adds to my understanding of search engines.
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January 26th, 2010 at 3:00 am
This website grader is an awesome tool. Hub Spot is a great resource for learning SEO and more. Thanks for sharing this, I ran my site and can see all the improvements I need to address to rank higher in SEs.
Sincerely
Bill