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Old 09-11-2008, 05:41 PM   #1
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Website To "grade" My Own Website?


I found, through this forum, a website that will take a look at your website and grade it. Of course I failed to save it to my favorites, and I can't find the original post again.

Anyone have any idea what I'm talking about or the link address?

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Old 09-11-2008, 06:38 PM   #2
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Is this what you were looking for?

http://www.contractortalk.com/f12/we-we-calculator-44448/

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Old 09-14-2008, 12:44 PM   #3
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I found, through this forum, a website that will take a look at your website and grade it. Of course I failed to save it to my favorites, and I can't find the original post again.

Anyone have any idea what I'm talking about or the link address?
I think this is the one your talking about.
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Old 09-14-2008, 03:18 PM   #4
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I think this was posted on here before too.
http://www.xinureturns.com/
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Old 09-14-2008, 06:55 PM   #5
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A company out of Cambridge Mass called HUBSPOT has a tool that grades websites. I have hired them and now use their program to manage my own website. They have taught me how to take control of my site without bringing in a web developer. My site has been recognized consistently on the first or second page for my keyword searches. They also combine the service to grade my blog. It has worked very well. My personal rep for HUBSPOT is Peter Caputa. He can also be reached at 508-579-6987.

If you have any questions about my experience with them please fell free to contact me.

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The hubspot website grader! That's the one. Although the 'we-we' calculator is what made me think of it. Thanks, all.
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Why don't you just get a google page rank checker install it to your web browser? Or get one with the alexa ranking checker..
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I have been using Hubspot for the past several months, it's amazing. Esepcially if you are B2B because you can see which websites are looking at your website, which pages they look at. Our sales guys use that generate sales. If you use that in conjunction with Google Ad Words and see what keywords they came in on, it's a great way to be pro-active with your leads. Ie- if they are looking at something you sell for a while, and came to your site via that keyword you have a good idea that are a good potential customer. If you reach out to them vs. waiting for them to contact you should be a lot more successful, we seem to be.

After your generate a lead, everytime they return to your site it tells you. You can add dolar amounts to your leads so your know how much they have spent with your company, add reminders to follow up with them, create forms to generate leads, it really is a service that pays for itself! Highly recommend it...
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Those seo tools and webpage "graders" are really just ways to OVER-SEO your site.
If you really want to have your site "graded" go drop by a DIY forum and post your link and ask homeowners (your target market) to conduct a usability test. Have a set of questions for before and after they look at your site. Then you'll really get a gauge of how well your site can convert rather than rank. You can rank #1 and still have your visitors leave within seconds of viewing your first page.

If you don't have Google's Analytics installed on your site, get it connected immediately. Check your bounce rate. If it is over 50% you need to redesign your page(s). How many pages are the visitors viewing? What keywords are users using for your site being found? Are you optimizing your pages for the wrong keywords?
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