Have your website evaluated with WebsiteGrader.com

Oh, looky there, as of 10/08/11 at 6 PM the Wootsite scored an 81! If you read this article at a later date, the score will hopefully have increased as I continue to work on the site. (I’ve been through this process before and I’m quite pleased that we’re at an 81 after only 34 days in existence!)

Now what does this mean?

If you’re like me, you find the whole Google-ranking thing a little mind-bending, you wonder what the heck this SEO stuff is all about and since when did Google case to be a search engine and become an analytic source???

These are the topics that many website owners deem important, but frankly, I didn’t become a photographer so I could learn how to code a website. I’m just a standard person who has found myself in need of some guidance to help my website play better with the WWW.

Well, for standard folks like myself, it means that you can plug your website information into this program and it will evaluate a variety of things and come up with a score for you. It will also tell you what areas you are doing well in and what areas you need to improve in. Of course, you will be given the opportunity to purchase some of the site’s SEO-increasing guidance and other things that sound like choices on a Chinese takeout menu, but there’s no obligation.

Earlier today, I ran my stats and came up with a 78. Some areas for improvement were noted and I made some changes and was able to bring the score up 3 points in less than an hour, so it works!

There are still some areas of improvement needed for the Wootsite; there are too many photos on the site, which may lead to slow loading and the site has less than a year left before the domain name needs renewed. Longer registrations speak well for websites for some reason. Now, I’ve decided to ignore both of these – yes, I have a number of photographs on the site and although they are huge in number, they are not huge in size, so slow loading should not be an issue. Secondly, I did just register the domain for a year. It’s not like I’m going to let it expire.

Now these are just two of several improvements noted in my website report – so you will get some good feedback from this free service. To gain a better perspective of what information is contained in the report – view a sample report here.

There’s also a number of other services available, if you have a blog for your website, then be sure and run it through Blog.Grader.com. There are also graders for your Twitter account, Facebook page and several other utilities that look useful.

Check out the entire suite of applications at Grader.com.