Free Website Checkup

Free SEO Analysis

In my first post on this site, I promised that I’d show you how to perform a “Website Physical”.  I was waiting until I had some time to devote to that project, since it there are a lot of steps in involved.  Just as a doctor checks your ears, throat, eyes, chest, stomach, and all our vital signs when you go in for a physical, there are quite a few things to check on your website, too, to make sure that its health is not in danger.

Well, I have a surprise for you.  There is a wonderful tool the enables you to give your website a quick checkup, just to get you started, and this tool is…

• Fast
• Easy
• FREE!

The name of this wonderful service is Website Grader, and you can access it at http://websitegrader.com.

Simply enter your domain name, and voila!  In no time, you’ll have the results of your physical, complete with detailed explanations of each assessment involved.

Now, this is a quick checkup.  There are a few vitals that this tool does not check, and if you work with us, we’ll let you know if you have any problems there.  We’ll put on our stethoscopes and…

• Check to make sure you have an XML Sitemap that helps search engines crawl and index your site easily
• Take a look at your W3C Validation status, to make sure your code is clean
• Check your page load times (the faster they load, the better)
• Check your page sizes – if these are enlarged (larger than 120k), then Google won’t look at the whole page and they won’t be fully indexed.

There are many things that will affect your ability to get traffic, and they aren’t necessarily obvious.

But, in the meantime, go get on the Website Grader treadmill and see how you do!

Let us know if you have any questions.

Becky