Website Grader is a free tool from Hubspot that grades your website on a scale of 1-100.  The free tool provides an analysis of your website and produces recommendations that can improve your website’s overall performance.

One of the best ways to increase your Website Grader score is blogging.  Below are the reasons why:

1.             Blog Analysis.  Website Grader searches for a blog on your site and scores your website as to whether it obtains a blog.

2.             Blog Grade.  Website Grader checks the traffic and inbound links coming into your blog.  Obviously, the more the blog, the more traffic and inbound links you will have.

3.             Recent Blog Articles.  Website Grades shows your recent blog articles and shows if those articles have been re-tweeted on Twitter.

4.             Indexed Pages.  Each blog article is a new indexed page to your website.  The more you blog, the more indexed pages your website will have.

5.             Readability Level.  Even if your website has technical language found within your industry, blogging in a general language will reduce the educational level of your website.

6.             Metadata.  Make sure your blog posts are optimized with the proper meta tags.

7.             Heading Summary.  Make sure even your blog posts have proper heading tags.

8.             Image Summary.  Make sure you limited amount of images in your blog posts as well as alt tags.

9.             Interior Page Analysis.  Make sure your blog posts are SEO optimized to improve their chance of getting found.

10.          MOZ Rank.  The more blog posts you have, the more inbound links and web traffic you will  have coming into your site.

11.          Link Tweet Summary.  Placing proper social media sharing aspects in your blog will allow your blog to be re-tweeted by readers.

12.          Twitter Grade.  By promoting your blog on Twitter and allowing others to re-tweet your blog, you will increase the amount of tweets you are sharing and gain more twitter follows, thus increasing your Twitter Grade.

13.          RSS Feed.  Website Grade searches for an RSS on your website and grades you according to its findings.

14.          Conversion Form.  By offering downloadable content at the end of each blog post, you will be sure to have a conversion form on your website for readers to obtain your content in exchange for their information.

15.          Traffic Rank.  Blogging is one of the best ways to increase traffic to your website and will improve your Alexa traffic score.

As you can see, by creating a blog and blogging frequently, you can easily increase your Website Grader score.

What are some methods you have used to increase your Website Grader score?

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