Website Grader Likes Me. Na Na Na Na Na.

My colleague and new NOT just online friend, Tina Forsyth of Online Business Manager (she lives right here in my home town!), recently blogged about Website Grader , a delightfully elegant little SEO auditing tool for websites. I know that half these kinds of online tools are about as useful as my husband on a Sunday morning. But this one does provide a very neat and tidy summary of how your website–and blog–stacks up from an SEO perspective. Maybe I’m a little biased though. I got an 81/100. Kewl huh?

I got docked for some stuff like wordy title tags, but I don’t get too nutty about things like word count. Just put a nice keyword phrase or two at the beginning, make sure it reads well, add your company name and/or location and move on.

What I can’t understand though is why my meta descriptions are not being added to my pages despite the fact that I have diligently added them to many of my pages using the Custom Fields option in my WordPress dashboard. What’s up with that?

Anyway, I’m glad I did this little exercise, even if it is kind of dorky for an Internet Marketer like me to do so. Now I know that WordPress is not properly creating descriptions for my pages or posts. And now I’ve got some investigative work to do.

I like Website Grader because, like Tina said, it’s simple to use and would probably make sense even for non-net-marketing types.

Go check it out . Then get all sneaky and see how your competition rates. If that’s not living on the edge then, hey, I don’t know what is.