A while back I started to write posts about the best free website tools I have come across in my time online. I have actually just found a tool which I wanted to tell you about – HubSpot’s Website Grader. Actually, I used it once in January, but completely forgot about it (Information overload….).
“… 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.”
You can simply enter your websites address and your email address, and the Website Grader will generate a detailed report on the effectiveness of your website’s SEO. The report is clearly structured and you can see straight away where you might be able to improve your site’s ranking, and how. HubSpot’s website grader looks for example at On-page SEO, off-page SEO, your blog in the Blogosphere, in the Social MediaSphere, etc. I found it really enlightening to have a read through the results, and I can start to work on my blog’s shortcomings now!
Here you can read the summary the website grader came up with for petra-weiss.com (I am actually very happy with that result – even though I don’t really know how I got there! 
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“…… A website grade of 95.5/100 for www.petra-weiss.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 95.5% 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.
The website www.petra-weiss.com ranks 70,984 of the 1,589,001 websites that have been ranked so far….”
So I suggest you head on over there sooner rather than later and get your site ranked… – it will probably surprise you what you have been missing out on regarding optimizing your site!
Seeing that it can be of tremendous value for us bloggers and website owners, Hubspot’s Website Grader is definitely worth to join the ranks of best free website tools!
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on Sep 22nd, 2009 at 1:43 am
Hi Petra,
Must try this tool. It looks very interesting.
Keep up the good work,
Veronica
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on Sep 22nd, 2009 at 11:47 pm
This is a great tool. The best thing what I found is that it also sends a copy of report to your mail, with this we can track the progress in our website ranking.
I have corrected my websites meta tags and description by using this software
Thanks for sharing this valuable resource.
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on Sep 23rd, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Yahoo Site Explorer is pretty good.
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on Sep 25th, 2009 at 1:31 am
I come across Hubspot blog nearly everyday but never found this tool before. Anyway thanks for the link…very cool!
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on Oct 1st, 2009 at 7:11 pm
Very great tool! And good hint too. I will be working on my site from this too. All the regards.
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on Oct 7th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
this is a wonderful tool and i think it rally helps to get improvement in your web site as seo aspects.
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on Oct 7th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Really wonderful piece of information and I appreciate it that you share something so useful with the readers of this blog.
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on Oct 10th, 2009 at 11:42 am
Hi Petra,
Great tool! I checked it out and found my website is 84/100. Not bad, but I like the fact that the report suggest what we can do to improve our sites.
Thank you for sharing what you find.
Kind Regards
Jacinta
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Petra Weiss Reply:
October 11th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
@Jacinta, that’s a pretty good score, congrats!
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on Oct 11th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
Hi Petra,
Very helpful post, thanks for sharing the good stuff.
I’ll have a look at what my sites look like through Websitegrader’s eyes.
I’m going to check your other posts on your best free website tools.
(I wonder if the last 4 words in your post that are underlined were meant to be a link.)
Vance
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Petra Weiss Reply:
October 11th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
Hi Vance, good that you can use my suggested website tools! The 4 words at the end of my post were not supposed to be a link, just bolded and underlined for SEO purposes. Even though, come to think of it, I could link to another one of my “website tools” posts…
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on Oct 14th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
i do have a blog and i have got 90/100,i must say website grader is fantastic for seo aspects.
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on Oct 21st, 2009 at 6:46 pm
website grader is just great for seo point of view. we can index our website by checking our website and correcting all the mistakes.
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on Oct 23rd, 2009 at 8:34 am
Thanks for providing information about these tool .
Really helpful for me.Never had an idea about this.Keep it up
Thanks
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on Oct 24th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
I have corrected my websites meta tags and description by using this software
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on Dec 1st, 2009 at 4:02 am
I’ve seen this website grader starting to pop up all over the net. Does anyone know the criteria they use for how a website is graded?
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on Dec 31st, 2009 at 8:14 am
I tried the tool and it is really cool, i also follow them on twitter.
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on Mar 11th, 2010 at 1:32 am
Thanks for the link to websitegrader.com! I’ve used the grader on my own site and I get 79/100.
Their suggestions for a higher score are great. They don’t leave you in the dark, but they give you clear advice on how to improve the score. Nice work!
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