One Heckuva Useful Tool
There are several tools available to webmasters to help them to accurately measure the performance of their sites. Over the past several months I have mentioned a few of them, but today I would like to draw your attention to a tool which I think is head and shoulders above them all.
- Domain’s Age
- Site Traffic (per Alexa)
- Directory Listings (DMOZ, Yahoo)
- Backlinks as Recorded by Five Search Engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AllTheWeb, AltaVista)
- Pages Indexed by the Same Five Search Engines (find out how many pages Google really does index, not the small amount usually shown with most other tools)
- Site Value Report — get an estimated value based on a number of factors for what your site could be worth if you were to sell it.
Sure, determining site value is subjective, but it is fun and it at least helps you to measure the worth of what you do.
I also use the SEOmoz page strength tool which performs similarly but without the index pages and site value report. Plus, my JetEmployment site does not have its Alexa rating displayed with SEOmoz, but I did find it with Smart PartRank.
I can see Smart PageRank being a useful tool for people interested in purchasing another site. Sure, you don’t have the site’s income amounts but you’ll have a good measurement of its traffic and how well the site performs with the all-important search engines.
This service sounds fascinating! I wonder, however, about the value of Alexa traffic reports because, as I understand it, that tool counts only visits from people who have the Alexa toolbar installed and active. Or is that a plus, knowing how many visitors use Alexa? Site value could be useful in setting advertising prices, and I’m still trying to find an effective method to raise Google page rank. Stuck at 5 Blues!
You can improve your Alexa score if the Alexa tool bar is installed. Without it, you’ll have a higher score with lower numbers being better.
Yes, Alexa can be one way advertisers measure whether they want to buy advertising on your site or not. It isn’t my favorite tool as Technorati and Google’s page rank are other measurements of a site’s visibility.
Your PR5 ranking is very good. If you can get a PR6 or PR7 link then that may pull up your ranking all things considered.
Hey great tool. The only thing I would question is the site eval price. I wish my blog was worth $100,000!!!
Hi b5chad! I agree, the pricing is a bit curious but it kind of adds a fun/feel good dimension to the tool. No tool, however, can measure a site’s income as that information is the purvey of the webmaster or blogger and will be a key determining factor in the final price of the item to be sold.
Thanks for stopping by!
Matthew,
What a great find! For some peculiar reason, most PR tools - with the exception of Google Toolbar - never provided accurate information for my domain (they all stated it had PR0, which was just absurd). Smart PageRank is the first free tool I’ve found that actually gets the job done properly.
Thanks again,
George
I know what you mean, George. I have a tool installed that is nearly always broken, while the Alexa toolbar itself sometimes shows me my Google page rank and other times it doesn’t.
I have used the Alexa toolbar for awhile now. It has lowered my score a great deal.
Karen: You got that right. I have seen claims by people that their Alexa dropped tens of thousands of points with just the toolbar installed.
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