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Try Hubspot’s free website grader tool

Laurie McAndish King — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:52:07 +0000

Hubspot’s 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.

I tried it on my one of my websites (for which I hadn’t done much SEO work) and got a pretty high score, plus a list of specific ideas for increasing my ranking.

“A website grade of 93/100 for www.travelwritersnews.com means that of the hundreds of thousands of websites that have previously been evaluated, our algorithm has calculated that this site scores higher than 93% of them in terms of its marketing effectiveness. The algorithm uses a proprietary blend of over 50 different variables, including search engine data, website structure, approximate traffic, site performance, and others.”

Mail Chimp: 500 Subscribers and 5,000 email per month. Free? What’s the catch?

Bradley Charbonneau — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:27:30 +0000

I’ve been using Vertical Response for some time and although it still works just great, I’ve been testing out Mail Chimp and so far: I like.

Great stats, easy-to-use editor to create your newsletter, love the backend interface, and, well, yeah, funny monkeys hanging around. Also, like Vertical Response, they don’t force you to do a monthly plan, but you can pay per recipient only when you send a newsletter.

September 2009 Update: They changed their pricing around a bit and now you can have up to 500 subscribers for free (max 5,000 emails sent out per month). Wow, can’t be that. They also have handy help videos to walk you through the steps to send an email, manage a list, and everything else you’d want to do. They also have auto-responders and after the video I realized: I should use auto-responders …

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