John Chow mentioned a cool website grading site analyzing many criteria to determine what “grade” your site should be given. The tool uses many types of data to determine the website grade such as, Technorati rating, PageRank, Alexa Rank, inbound links, web page structure and more.

Here is a screenshot of my website grade:

There were a few suggestions the site made for me which I will work on correcting this weekend, including:

“Permanent Redirect Not Found

Search engines often regard www.shauncarter.com and shauncarter.com as two different websites unless you take specific measures to signal to them that they are the same site.

The best way to handle this situation is to setup what is known as a permanent redirect (or a “301″ redirect) from one of these sites to the other. This way, any links that are pointing to the secondary site benefit the primary site, from an SEO perspective.

We could not detect a permanent redirect for this site, so it may be experiencing the negative effects of link fragmentation (some of the inbound links may point to www.shauncarter.com and others to shauncarter.com) For example, www.shauncarter.com seems to have 1,089 inbound links whereas shauncarter.com has 2,496 inbound links. By correctly configuring a permanent 301 redirect, the search rankings might improve as all inbound links are correctly counted for the website.”

This is a good tool for a webmaster to quickly generate a snapshot of your website and use it to gauge your progress as you build your website or blog.

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