Forum owners: what's your websites grade?

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  1. cpvr

    cpvr Regular Member

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    The website <removed> ranks 53,840 of the 3,483,668 websites that have been ranked so far.
    A website grade of 98/100 for <removed> means that of the millions of websites that have previously been evaluated, our algorithm has calculated that this site scores higher than 98% of them in terms of its marketing effectiveness. The algorithm uses a proprietary blend of over 50 different variables, including search engine data , website structure, approximate traffic, site performance, and others.
    What's yours? Take the test here - http://websitegrader.com/
     
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    Just a reminder that you cannot promote anywhere else but the showcase forum, so I have removed your links but I'm sure your find will be helpful to others
     
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    Well, its about a website grade - its a feature that gives your site a grade - its for everyone, why remove the link, when others can get their grade and post it?
     
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    because you are still effectively advertising your own forum, the link to the website grader is still present in your post. You are free to edit your post, but you cannot include a link back to your site, like you were doing.

    Anyway here is the results for my site: http://websitegrader.com/site/plutohosting.net
     
  5. Trombones13

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    For some reason, it says it can't generate a report for my site. :(
     
  6. Kaiser

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    I never use tools like this because they are never accurate just like those websites that estimate how much your site is worth.
     
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    I actually think it's quite handy, as it's helping identify potential problems with SEO & Rankings, etc. (most of which I'm already aware of because of another site, and has been fixed in the new site)
     
  8. Ashley

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    I'll check stuff like this for curiosity's sake, but as I'm not in the techincal end of things, it's not something I really take seriously, as I don't always understand what the reports are on about, really. But it is neat just to kind of check up on your site even if you don't understand the report sometimes.
     
  9. Kaiser

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    They aren't always accurate either, but its still a great way to help you to improve.
     
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    I suppose it could be like requesting a review as well. Just because someone says something doesn't look right, doesn't mean it doesn't look right. You could have 10 reviewers debating about how your forum looks in their eyes and I'd bet any amount of money that that review wouldn't go anywhere, as no one would be able to agree on how a person's site looks.
     
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    Yea just like that. ;)
     
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    89/100 In most schools this is still a passing grade, so that's not bad. I think the reason why it thinks we are a blog site and not a forum is because we have the blog mod installed, and people have been posting blogs and things, which is probably why it thinks that. I suppose any feature that's widely used on any forum, that site could think that that's what your site is about, all because that's the feature that's most used.
     
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    the so called blog is linking to the top five posts at the bottom of the index page :giggle: if I enabled SEO friendly urls so blog.php became /blog/ it would probably detect it better
     
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    Yea, thats how it detected /blogs/ on AdminBB
     
  18. Mikey

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    I never use these types of tool, I find them most innacurate and are just for the sites who want the same guestbook scripts and 'website counters' at the bottom of their pages., Pretty silly. If you own the website, you already know the worth, how well it is doing, etcetera. You shouldn't need a tool to explain it for you.

    Now before my post is misconstrued as something which is is not, I want to make it clear that I'm not 'picking on you', nor am I 'trolling', but I am very perplexed by your behaviour in this thread.

    You remove cpvr's links to his site, tell him he can't advertise, and yet in your very next post in this thread your post is also explaining that he can't advertise, and you then go on to link your own sites results..

    I dunno, it seems very hypocritical to me. I'm sorry if you don't want people speaking out like this but if I were a staff member I would either not remove the links, or I would remove the links and then post my own statistics in the same manner in which you editted the original post. With "<website removed>" in place of the website with the results.

    Again, sorry for the Off Topic part of my post, I just felt the need to express my confusion.
     
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    Hey Mikey,
    Sorry you feel that way, but Ashley.S. didn't have a bad intention when doing that, in our Terms we have:
    Thats being said im sure cpvr wasn't intending to advertise but showing that stats of his site. We have had many members in the past just continuously advertising their sites in posts and status updates and taking advantage and thats why I had included that rule in our terms. I dont remove links in posts unless its obvious shameless promotion, and its my fault for not letting Ashley.S. know about it as he was just doing his job. And I apologize to cpvr as well as he is an active and much respected member of this community.. I was meaning to let Ashley know but I had forgot as I am very busy.
     
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    Tools like them seem useful but never used because accuracy is always the problem, I would rather use the cPanel version of this tool.
     

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