We Will…We Will… Grade You!
Posted by Randy Barnes on December 9, 2009 · 2 Comments
| I’m crazy about hubspot.com’s graders for websites and twitter accounts. Now they’ve got a blog grader and I had to try it out. Here’s some of what I found. Some very interesting results here. Wonder how different this will be |
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| My friend Todd is a popular local blogger and has fingers in many pies, so to speak, and has a content rich sort of blog. Score 33? Sorry Todd, but while you’re turning into the running man be thinking |
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| Ms Miriam. Awesome gal that’s definitely a head above the rest. Career counseling master, excellent blogger, but still a relatively weak score in this model. It’s close enough to pass because of outstanding extra credit and good attendance. |
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| Ah ha. Now I begin to see the flaws. This blog is one of mine, so I know all about it. It’s a clients site that I installed, developed, and host so I know how little is actually behind the curtain. I put this up only weeks ago and have not polished it up enough to really push yet, but we still are receiving a surprisingly good score. I’ll push this baby into a solid B before you know it! |
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| Now this is where it gets crazy. I wanted to run punkrockHR.com and I typed PR by mistake. I still got a score of 17 EVEN THOUGH THE DOMAIN DOES NOT EXIST! The Domain is still unregistered as you can see below! Still some bugs in the grader I’d say. – grain of salt comes to mind. |
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| Now here’s the actual site I’d meant to run, and I can see a decent result. Fancy pants punker still wouldn’t be too keen on a grade of 79. Oh well. Next. |
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| This was a big surprise as Stephanie Lloyd of RadiantVeracity has a well established blog with mega-content and sweet little elves juicing her site with every trick known to interns. On the web however there’s always more to be done. The hurrier I go, the behinder I get! |
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| Now for another interesting twist. This is a blog, but the ‘machine’ doesn’t think so. There’s always some wrinkles for developers to work out. Still quite a powerful free tool to get ideas on improving your blog. Can anyone knock it outta the park, and hit a big score? Let’s see… |
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| Now if you want to copy from the best you need to have a look at Seth Godin. Finally a solid A+ score from a real virtuoso. Still, if one wants to pick, there’s likely some 12 year old girl blogging her wisdom with a 99.6 score somewhere. Just sayin’. |
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OK, I’m including just 2 more that interest me, and are also surprising. |
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 OK bloggers and blogees, play with this new toy for a bit and we’ll read chapter 2 for next time. I will also want to warn you that the tool/site is a little buggy at present and may deliver more errors than you are use to. I’m sure it’s being addressed at hubspot. |
Well I cant find the site anylong and figure that the hubspot folks have their hands too full with the mad variety of other projects they have going – maybe theyll get back to this and have a better tool. What do you expect for free huh?
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