This is an interesting site that I found on Shankri-La recently, the Website Grader Tool.
Just plug in your blog url, and some other optional information, and the site will quickly research your blog, and generate a report for you. First off the site grades you against the other sites to have been processed (over 35,000 now) and assigns a rank telling you what percentage of sites your blog has ranked higher than. It will also summarise the main scoring factors like so:
Whilst you can obtain this information at the original sources, it’s very useful to see it all pulled together like this. The report then goes into more detail, and presents you with domain information (including expiry), headings and images summary and expands upon the data given in the above table.
It also examines your page structure for how you rank for your entered keywords, Meta tags and gives tips on any HTML errors it encounters. As I say, nothing you can’t find elsewhere, but all brought together into one readable and well explained whole.
One other cool thing you can do is to compare other websites with yours: I did this in trepidation for the results, but all in all 3 of us are fairly even. Least said about Maki the better 
The grader is set for more updates in the future, so it’s one to keep your eye on.
You’ll notice that my scores have changed slightly between the two screenshots, which does show how quickly the grader is being updated. I would also say that eJabs enormous Google index count is down to the translation plugin used? Can anyone say if this is a good thing (more pages in the index) or bad (duplicate content). If it’s good, I may be changing plugins….
Anybody else want to offer up their score?
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I’m not sure how accurate it is Chris. It gave me 87 and I really don’t think I should be that high; I don’t even have a page rank yet, and I’ve only been going 6 weeks or so!
Having said that, the calculations are made in comparison to others, so the score would change depending on other submissions.
Cheers guys
As you say Armen, it’s relative to the other sites graded, so irrespective of your blog age, you’re obviously doing a lot of things right.
This is one of those tools that every new blogger should use once up & running, and then it’s worth visiting every couple of months to make sure you haven’t broken anything.
I got 89 .
Interesting site, Chris.
I used it, found out I was missing a permanent redirect from davidairey.com to http://www.davidairey.com, that I was missing meta keywords, and that I should extend my domain expiry date.
First run gave me a rank of 93 and after fixing the first two of three mistakes it’s now 98.
That helped me out, so cheers buddy.
Brrr…I feel naked & exposed with all of my stats sitting out there!
I too discovered some good fixes & will take care of them & repost my score.
Per the high # of pages indexed on eJabs, it is due to the translation plugin. However, I’m not sure if it’s pos or neg. I did just install a new SEO plugin & will take care of a lot of the issues & let you know how it goes.
Thanks to K @ Shankrila & to you Chris.
Okay…I have fixed a few things & now have my score up to 93.
I’m going to fix a few more & will likely have it much higher.
Excellent, I’m glad it’s been of use guys, and that you’ve been able to fix a few things.
98 eh David? Going to go for the 100?
I’ll be interested to hear about how that plugin goes Matt.
I like the Digg articles summary and I’ve seen the same function on some other tools as well.
I’m quite interested to see what the Pro version of the tool offers and how long the free version stays free…
Thanks, Chris.
Ah hah! I discovered the source of the high amount of pages getting indexed (I believe).
If you’re using the Google Sitemap Generator plugin then the settings are handled on the WordPress Options page under “Sitemap”. Down under the “Sitemap Content” section I have the following checked(*) & unchecked(-):
* Include homepage
* Include posts
- Include static pages
- Include categories
- Include archives
- Include author pages
I used to have them all checked! We’ll see if that makes a difference…
Chris,
I’m going for 101!
Matt,
I’m using that plugin. Thanks for the heads-up. Hopefully it’ll make a difference.
no problem David.
Does anyone know if it’s better to have higher or lower indexed pages by Google?
Here’s a thought…I’m using the Global Translator Plugin and I think that may be why I have a high number of indexed pages. I am thinking it’s due to the pages being indexed in all different languages. Isn’t this good so that my pages show up on foreign Google searches?
72/100.
Ah, well, as they say: “C’s get degrees….”
Plenty to work on Curmudgeon? Actually you’re probably restricted by Blogger with what you can fix.
I think it’s going ‘pro’ very soon Maki, but it could be worth it if they’re sensible & add in some more features.
As far as I know Matt, more pages=better for Google, with the caveat on duplicate content. Question is, can Google translate?
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