Friday, April 11. 2008
Class '07 April Grades
It has been really busy around here for the last month. I've fallen behind on posting to this blog. I'm falling behind on reading all the blogs I'm subscribed to. I'm trying to keep up with everything that is happening in the uISV space but I feel like I'm falling behind every day. But I did catch a few important milestones from a few of our members. I'd also like to welcome a few new members to our class, Chris Hynes from Krystalware and Scott Karstetter from Smart To-Do List. And now to the grades...
| Site | Score | Page Rank | SEOmoz |
|---|---|---|---|
| chatspring.com | 58(-5) | 2 | 2 |
| www.thinklife.co.uk/ | 37 (-1) | 3 | 2.5 |
| joelmarcey.com | 81 (-1) | 4 | 3 |
| www.smallfarmcentral.com/ | 79 (+1) | 4 | 4.5 |
| www.sportavista.com/ | 65(+1) | 3 | 2.5 |
| www.sendalong.com/ | 80 (+15) | 3 | 3 |
| catchthebest.com | 84 (+1) | 5 | 4.5 |
| www.heliumfoot.com/ | 75 (+4) | 5 | 3.5 |
| www.lokad.com/ | 95 (+1) | 5 | 5 |
| twistedwave.com | 71 (+1) | 5 | 3.5 |
| www.omnicustomersupport.com/ | 52 (-1) | 2 | 1.5 |
| www.webworkschedules.com/ | 58(+2) | 2 | 2 |
| www.sixproducts.com/ | 44 (-8) | 1 | 1 |
| krystalware.com | 88 (--) | 3 | 4 |
| www.smarttodolist.com/ | 26 (--) | 0 | 2 |
| Average | 66(-1) | 3 |
I decided after the graph last month, that I would simplify the graph to focus only on one or two uISV's. This month the focus is on Jon at SendAlong.com. SendAlong is a tool for sending large files to people. I've personally used it a few times and recommend it. I want to point Jon out, because back when I first started, Jon had a score of 9! And this month he had another large jump (15 points) and even more important is that he has had quite a bit of success since his launch including his first paying customers. Following Jon's success has been a source of motivation for me.
Our group grade dropped slightly. Not to point fingers but I think it might have been one of our new additions. But as the graph above shows, with a little work you can make large strides in improving your website.
I also want to congratulate Starr on getting ChatSpring into Beta. If you have not looked at his application, a live chat software for your websites, you should. I've used it a few times already and it is great app. Starr has done a beautiful job on the UI (using EXT-JS) and the app simply works. For uISV's that want to add that extra level of customer service, it is a great tool.
I'm looking at adding the seomoz's page strength tool grades this month as well. I'm late on getting ths post out, so I figure I will publish it now and then update it with the page strength scores when I get that data.
Updated: Special thanks to Chris Hynes who has an account at seomoz.org and run the page strength tool for all of our sites. I added a new column which is the score (1-10 range) of the page strength. I'm new to seomoz so I'll try to dig into it a bit more and report back on it. It would appear that we rank poorer overall vs our ratings on web site grader.
With regard to SendAlong's score increasing, there are a few things that I've done that have helped:
I've chosen a specific message as to what my product can do and I've stuck to it
SendAlong got quite a few links when it was officially released
I registered the domain for 3 years (Google looks down upon domains registered for only a year at a time)
I've followed all of your excellent advice for tweaking the site
Thanks again for the charts. It's really fun to watch everyone's progress.
Now to get back to work so SendAlong can get to 90%...
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