Grade Your Website - Without Emotion or Bias

I encounter many business owners who are in love with their websites.

• Owners who love the cool flash intro every time they see it, though it annoys their users by their third visit
• Owners who dig the simplicity of the frames that surround the content, though search engines record only one page out of 75 pages in the site.
• Owners who wonder why they don't rank higher in Google for any of the 54 keywords they've put in their code.
• Owners who have no idea what I'm talking about...so let's get to the point...

Friend and Iowa small business owner Kyle Eslick was the first of many trusted voices pointing out a free tool called Website Grader.

Simply key in your web address, a few related keywords and if you choose, a competitors site. Within a minute or two, you'll have a web grade on a scale of 100 -- with suggested improvements.

Kyle was able to take his grade from 85/100 to 95/100 with a few minor changes. We took IowaBiz from a 45/100 to 78/100 - and we're just getting started.

Two things to think about as you head on over to WebsiteGrader

• Website Grader brings no emotion into the grading process. During this test, neither should you.
• Website Grader bases part of its grading on social media sites such as Technorati and Delicious - these are important pieces in today's Internet. Don't ignore them. (remember - no emotion on this test).

If you want to learn more about how to use the web for your business or more about the social media landscape, check out Kyle's Cove - one of the most popular tech sites around (the globe) and a site that sometimes gets more web traffic than the Des Moines Register site.

Comments

[Kyle Eslick]

Mike,

Thanks for the mention!

Website Grader is indeed a good free service to use. I've spoken with the creator of it and it is a work in process, so it should continue to improve its effectiveness over time (and hopefully remain free).