Blog graders: good for this San Diego real estate blog?

Several sites have popped up to help those like me who blog to gauge whether our posts, or our sites for that matter, have impact. Who judges? It seems algorithms within the blog grading sites do the judging, and that’s fine with me. Like a lot of “social media” grading, I take it all very much with a grain of salt. But when you get a good grade, even if you don’t understand HTML and I don’t, it feels good! Arbitrary and random it’s not, if it tells you why you got a low score.

Two sites get routine check-ins from me so I can check the very blog you’re reading, greenboxhomes.com. One is WebsiteGrader.com and the other is Blog.Grader.com. These sites are both managed by a company called HubSpot that also provides some blog automation and marketing services. While I haven’t taken advantage of their fee services yet, I do enjoy the free grading systems.

Today WebsiteGrader.com gave me a score of 82, and Blog.Grader.com gave me a score of 94. Both admirable scores I suppose, but both services offer suggestions to make the site even better. I am not a WordPress designer so I can take these to the mega talented person who built my site and ask him to implement suggestions, which I have done from time to time.  Sometimes there is an error like whether or not the grading site can find your Facebook page. You may have one and it says you don’t. Hey, no one is going to send you a big check in the mail for using any of this, but if you’re a blogger then you tweak your site.

These websites often have good ideas for improvement! What’s your score?

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