I was recommended woorank.com by @kathypop and checked it out. I think it is a goldmine…but I’m still learning so much I can’t tell what this all means. Except that I do need to improve my site. Does anyone have a working knowledge of woorank.com and how to read it? Has it helped you? Is the score for real?

@deairby I need to check this out

Not only did I discover Woorank but also a comparable tool … both are informative and useful tools!! Thank you.

@deairby Thanks for scaring me.  That’s what I needed.  Great tool. Interesting. I’m going to explore it also.

Holy cow!  Guess I’m glad I’m rebuilding the sites!

I’ve been using #woorank for a year or so through the Chrome extension, and it’s great for getting a quick overview of the general health of a website. I use it before I meet with potential clients so I go in with a general picture of where they’re at without having to invest too much time in research. Woorank recently upgraded their system and I think the reports are even more valuable now. I love the new mobile screenshots and suggestions, for instance.

As an SEO professional, I don’t know if I always agree with the priorities given, but it does a good job overall as far as automated tools go. It puts a big emphasis on DMOZ listings, for instance, which has been losing importance in recent years, and is so arbitrary. Some sites get submitted and never even reviewed for years, while others may get added right away, but it certainly doesn’t hurt to try. Registering your domain further out is also a relatively minor and somewhat controversial recommendation – some people say two years, while others say it will only help if you do ten. Some people say it doesn’t matter at all.

You can also try out Hubspot’s free website graders at marketing.grader.com. They’re a little more thorough in some areas and allow you to correct things like your social media and blog links.

@dedimason I’m not sure how their algorithms pick up social sites – sometimes they get it and sometimes they don’t. I have one site where the Twitter name matches the domain name, is linked to from the site, and Twitter links back, yet Woorank thought they didn’t have a Twitter account.

The last time I tested Hubspot’s Grader, it gave me a little pop-up window to check if it had properly detected the social accounts, and gave me the opportunity to correct them, before running the full analysis. Did you try using that feature? At least it shows me Grader recognizes their auto-detection system is less than 100% and they’re offering a way to compensate for it.

@deairby

I’ve been using woorank for over 2 years now and they just recently came out with a new version which if you just tried it, presumably it’s the newer version with much more info.  Even before all the new stuff it was a great tool however now it’s even better. 
I think it’s great for making sure you got some of the major points covered like having a sitemap set up and making sure you have enough content.  
If you have some specifics you’d like to know more about, shoot me a message. I’d be happy to help you out.

blekko? that’s a new one, thanks @donnaduncan

Thanks for the suggestion, @donnaduncan. I was wondering how you used Blekko, a search engine, to evaluate inbound links, and found this article from SEOMoz. Anyone else interested in trying out Blekko might want to read this as a guide: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/using-blekkos-seo-data-to-evaluate-web-directories-14678

Dea, if you use Woo Rank, be sure to check later to make sure your score does not appear online when you search for yourself. If so, contact them to remove.

Also, not sure why you want to change your site. You may want help with conversion rate optimization (setting up site to convert more visitors to leads and sales). This is something that I do. 

I’ve seen a lot of people focus on pushing traffic to their site without realizing that most sites are not designed to promote leads and sales. Most web designers and marketers don’t know how to do this leaving businesses much room for improvement to maximize their roi with their website, an invaluable marketing tool.

hard work is right! can be slightly overwhelming..@nadadurjanardhan

hmmmm, let me think on that @nadadurjanardhan