Website Grader: See How CasesBlog Scored Only One Point Lower than NEJM

Website Grader is "a free search engine optimization (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."

Check your website here: http://website.grader.com

See how Clinical Cases and Images - Blog scored below:



Website Grader for Clinical Cases and Images - Blog: 98.7
http://website.grader.com/wsgid/1856668/default.aspx

"A website grade of 98.7/100 for casesblog.blogspot.com means that of the hundreds of thousands of websites that have previously been evaluated, the algorithm has calculated that this site scores higher than 98.7% of them in terms of its marketing effectiveness." The algorithm uses a proprietary blend of over 50 different variables, for example:

Traffic Rank: Top 1.56 % (Traffic Rank 479,212)
Blog Ranking: Top 0.06 % (Blog Rank 43,038)
Google PageRank: 6
Inbound Links: 38,897
Del.icio.us bookmarks: 132

As you can see from the Disclaimer and Terms of Use Agreement, I try to maintain my websites as transparent as possible. For example, the traffic statistics are open to anybody who wants to verify that we really had more than 1 million visitors and 2.7 million page views as of 2008:

http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s17clinicalcases

Information about some of my other websites:

Website Grader for Clinical Cases and Images: 91
http://website.grader.com/wsgid/1856677/default.aspx

Website Grader for Allergy Notes: 81
http://website.grader.com/wsgid/1856680/default.aspx

Website Grader for Allergy Cases - Case-based Curriculum of Allergy and Immunology (AllergyCases.org): 76
http://website.grader.com/wsgid/1856663/default.aspx

Website Grader for Perioperative Medicine Summit: 39
http://website.grader.com/wsgid/1856689/default.aspx

Website Grader for Hit the Road - See America and the World: 69
http://website.grader.com/wsgid/1856701/default.aspx

Website Grader for VesDimov.com: 51
http://website.grader.com/wsgid/1856706/default.aspx

See the grade of the "competition":

Website Grader for The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM): 99.8
http://website.grader.com/wsgid/1856716/default.aspx

As I mentioned on Twitter:

	AllergyNotes Only 1.1 point difference between website grades for NEJM (99.8) and Clinical Cases and Images - Blog (98.7) !!! 7 minutes ago from web
	AllergyNotes Website Grader for The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM): 99.8 http://website.grader.com/w... 9 minutes ago from web

AllergyNotes Website Grader for Clinical Cases and Images - Blog: 98.7 http://website.grader.com/w... 10 minutes ago from web

Of course, I know that the "king of medical publishing" NEJM is incomparable in significance to a blog but this shows how democratic the Internet is.

Some Twitter comments:

sandnsurf @AllergyNotes Like the website grader site - thanks for that - too embarrased to post my scores though! 37 minutes ago from web in reply to AllergyNotes

AllergyNotes @sandnsurf Re: "grader site - too embarrased to post my scores" -- You publish high quality original content and the numbers will only go up 3 minutes ago from web in reply to sandnsurf

AllergyNotes @sandnsurf Re: Website Grader -- In fact, it's worse to have a score of 98 or 99 because your score can only go down... :-) 1 minute ago from web in reply to sandnsurf

Twitter works well for creating a searchable, "no login required" archive of notes. As a bonus, you can use it later for blogging ideas.