What In The World Is Hubspot? Do You Know?

Don't feel bad. Neither did I. Funny name.

Hubspot is an Internet marketing company that produces software enabling websites to capture leads and more effectively convert those leads into customers. Apparently they're pretty good at what they do. They've been featured in the Wall Street Journal, PC Magazine and some other "high powered" and quite credible media sources. Who knew?

Hubspot recently caused a stir when they used their FREE SEO tool, Website Grader, to grade the top 20 blogs from Technorati. What they found was somewhat surprising. It seems that a number of the top blogs were making some very basic SEO mistakes.

Over 100,000 websites have been submitted to Website Grader. The tool uses a set of criteria including traffic, search engine optimization, popularity, marketing and structure designed to provide webmasters and site owners with information to understand how their site compares with the competition. The tool is easy and quick (yes, I tried it out myself), but provides some very useful information of which the average website owner is probably unaware.

I recommend you try Website Grader for yourself. If nothing else, you'll find how well your website rates against your competition. And if it doesn't rate well, at least you'll have acquired some valuable information as to why and some clues about where to concentrate your focus to make website improvements. The results may ultimately improve your website's overall marketing and sales results.

Website Grader is found at http://www.websitegrader.com. Have fun!