Get To Know Your Site With CrawlScore
I just felt that despite all the information that CrawlScore presented me with, I didn’t know exactly what I was supposed to do to improve my site. Take for instance the Executive Summary page which said that 93.5% of my pages were not search engine friendly:
Now I know that this isn’t true as this site gets a lot of search engine traffic, so I think what CrawlScore mean is that my pages weren’t optimised. However, clicking through as advised to the Technical Summary didn’t tell me clearly enough what steps I could take to optimise my site:
Yes I could find all the pages that didn’t have meta keywords etc, but there were literally thousands of pages, and it would take me an eternity to edit all those pages. I don’t think that CrawlScore is a blogger friendly service, and is probably more suited to sites that don’t spawn as many unique pages. Blogging services like WordPress tend to be pretty search-engine friendly out of the box anyway, and this should be good enough for most bloggers.
If you’re not sure whether signing up for CrawlScore will benefit your site then I recommend checking out the various video tutorials that are available which will help you make up your mind:
- Introduction to CrawlScore
- How to generate sitemaps
- Difference between CrawlScore and Google Webmaster tools
- how to build a well constructed website
There’s also a good blog and some FAQs.
All in all I think CrawlScore could be a great service, if used by the right person. However, in order to appeal to bloggers it needs to provide more help information within pages e.g. what’s a 301, 302, etag etc rather than in separate FAQ pages. It probably needs to cost less, as at $99.99 it isn’t cheap, although this amount could be recupped through the additional google traffic that can be generated.
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Comment by The Masked Millionaire on 16 March 2008:
Thanks for the review. It sounds as if I really don’t need this product.
I am new to blogging and use the blog from GoDaddy. I’m not really sure if that comes optimized or not. Not really sure how to find out either.
In any case thanks for the information.
The Masked Millionaire
http://www.TheMaskedMillionaire.com