SEO Insights for your Blog or Website

Do you run your own blog or website? Do you wonder whether it’s applying good SEO principles to be easily found on search engines? Are you like me and baulk at the idea of paying somebody to figure it out?

I have the answer with some great (free!) tools to check your SEO health.

Recently I shared Twitter Grader as a simple (and free) tool to check how you score in the Twittersphere. From the same group, HubSpot comes:

http://websitegrader.com/

You simply need to plug in the URL of your blog or website, and sit back and relax while Grader churns through your site. You will receive an overall score but don’t dwell on this, I feel the information that follows is what is useful as it gives you a breakdown on what’s actually missing. Use this information to make some simple tweaks and your SEO health will improve dramatically.

Even though I make a concerted effort to tick the ‘SEO’ boxes with each post, I found out I was missing Meta descriptions on my homepage. A big no-no and something despite my efforts I had missed.

SEO insights for attieorourke.com

I should mention at this point that if you are using Wordpress.org there are some fantastic, free SEO packs you can install that will do the majority of the work for you. I use the the ‘All in one SEO Pack’ by Hallsofmontezuma which I’ve found simple and easy to use.

So have a play, you might gain some great insights that are usually fixed with nothing more than a simple tweak or two. You’ll reap the benefits down the track when your organic listings eventually climb the rank.