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Blogging used to be so easy…
… and I am ready for new challenges! In other words, there will be a lot of changes on this site over the coming month weeks.
It amazing to see how things have changed over the last couple of years… blogging was something I did in my spare time and I never really cared about rankings or traffic. And then someone introduced me to a tool that has made me realise that this very blog needs a lot of work!
Website Grader is a free SEO tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website. It provides a score that incorporates things like website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors. It also provides some basic advice on how the website can be improved from a marketing perspective.
Website grader is dead easy to use – just enter your URL and you’ll get a full report of your blog emailed over within 10 minutes!
Because I am (sadly) a bit of a perfectionist, I’ve decided to take the plunge and self-host my blog as I really need to do something about my non-existent metadata (blame wordpress)!
Website Grader is definitely worth a try… you might learn a thing or two 
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For competitive benchmarking to see what your competitors are doing well that you can learn from!