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Stimator is a bit like Website Grader in that it analyzes your website, incoming links etc. and gives you a score.  Where it’s different is that instead of being a percentage like Website Grader gives you, Stimator gives you a value in US Dollars.

The number isn’t just arbitrary – it’s based on how much actual money real websites have sold for and how your website compares to those sites.  For example Stimator estimates that google.com is worth about $940 million.

As of today, Stimator thinks my website is worth $747, which isn’t a huge amount but at least it’s more than I’ve spent on the website over the years.  They provide a bit of html to include in your site to show off your estimated worth (similar to Website Grader), but it didn’t work when I tried to include it in this post.

I originallydiscoeverd Stimator via someone’s tweet, but I don’t remember who it was from.  When I later decided to revisit Stimator and couldn’t remember its name I found a lot of other website valuation web apps out there, but Stimator seemed to be the best.  They seem to have put a lot of thought into it, especially the concept of linking the valuations to the financial markets.

I don’t think any of this should be taken too seriously, but it’s a fun thing to run ever so often to see whether your website is getting better or worse.

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I recently found out about a service called Website Grader.  You give it a URL and it analyzes that website for SEO statistics – the stats for my blog are here.

The On-Page SEO statistics include Metadata, Heading Summary, Image Summary, Interior Page Analysis and Readability Level.

The Off-Page SEO statistics include Domain Info, Google PageRank, Google Indexed Pages, Last Google Crawl Date, Traffic Rank, Inbound Links, DMOZ Directory, Yahoo! Directory and ZoomInfo.

It also has Blogosphere statistics (Blog Analysis, Blog Ranking and Recent Blog Articles), Converting Qualified Visitors to Leads (RSS Feed and Conversion Form) and Competitive Intelligence (Keyword Grader, Score Summary and Historical Data Available).

This much is free, but there are more features available like comparing historical data if you sign up for the paid service.  It doesn’t say anywhere on their website how much it costs, which usually means it’s expensive.

Website Grader summarizes all of this information into a Website Grade – a single number that represents how well you’re doing.  You can then get a widget to put on your website that displays your grade.  My blog got a Grade of 85% – not bad.

My website report highlighted some interesting facts – I’m in the top 0.63% on Technorati and the top 4.68% on Alexa.

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