WebSite Grade For www.nba.com : 99/100 (September 16, 2007)

A website grade of 99 for www.nba.com means that of the thousands of websites that have previously been submitted to the tool, our algorithm has calculated that this site scores higher than 99% of them in terms of its marketing effectiveness. The algorithm uses a proprietary blend of over a dozen different variables, including search engine data, website structure, approximate traffic, site performance, and others.

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Score Summary

Sectionwww.nba.com
Website Grade99
Google Page Rank7
Alexa Rank314
Technorati RankN/A
Google Inbound Links24,700
Yahoo Inbound Links5,165,680
Delicious Saved Count23
Google Indexed Pages467,000

Google PageRank : 7

"Google PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves important weigh more heavily and help to make other pages important."
-From Google

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Web Page Structure

To learn more about what meta-data is and why it is important, take a look at the following article:

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Title : NBA.com: Official Home Page of National Basketball Association
Description : The home page of the National Basketball Association. It includes information on NBA teams, players, scores,standings, stats, schedules, tickets, photos, news, fantasy, mobile, and video.
Meta Keywords : hawks, celtics, bobcats, bulls, cavaliers, cavs, mavericks, mavs, nuggets, pistons, rockets, warriors, pacers, clippers, lakers, grizzlies, heat, bucks, timberwolves, nets, hornets, knicks, magic, sixers, 76ers, suns, blazers, trail blazers, kings, spurs, sonics, supersonics, raptors, jazz, wizards, nba, national basketball association, basketball, teams, players, scores, standings, stats, schedule, tickets, photos, news, fantasy, mobile, video, shop, gear, global, draft, all star
No search words were entered for this report generation.

Though search words (and how the website ranks for them) is not used in the calculation of the SiteGrade, there are several important checks that the software makes related to the words entered. You may want to consider re-running the report for important words related to the site.
High Number Of Meta Keywords

There are a high number of keywords in the meta-data of the web page.
We believe that though the search engines don't weigh keywords as heavily as they used to, they're still important to get right. By using a high number of keywords, it is possible that you are diluting the effect of your most important keywords. We would suggest keeping the keywords to 10 or less. Currently, this site has 55 keywords in the meta-data.

Domain Info

Registrar : CSC CORPORATE DOMAINS, INC.
Registered On : November 28, 1994 @ 12:00 AM
Domain Age (days) : 4,675
Expires On : November 27, 2009 @ 12:00 AM
Days To Expiration : 802

Heading Summary

Similar to how newspapers and magazines use headings and sub-headings to help readers, websites can use special tags in their HTML. These tags not only help human readers read the content, they also help search engine spiders better understand the content on a page and what is most important. It is generally a good idea to use heading tags to help signal to the search engines, what the web page is about.
Heading Summary

No headings were found on the web page

Image Summary

Images are a great way to enhance a website from a user's perspective. However, it is important to note that search engine crawlers cannot really "see" images. So, if you have lots of images that contain textual content within the image itself, this content will not be seen by the crawlers.

HTML helps address this issue by providing a way to specify the textual content for an image using the "alt" attribute. The alt attribute allows web pages to assign specific text as the "alternative" content for images for those that cannot view the images themselves. This can be search engine crawlers or text-only web browsers.
Image List

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/media/callout_hdr_wnba.gif 
/media/wnba_finalsgif.gif 
/media/callout_hdr_nbastore.gif 
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http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/.dart/;sz=135x29;ord=123456789? 
/media/homepage/title_watch.gif 
/media/homepage/button_rss_off.gif 
/media/homepage/title_news.gif 
http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/nba.dart/;sz=300x250;ord=123456789? 
/media/homepage/title_fantasy.gif 
/media/fantasy/lebron_070913.jpg 
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http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/nba.dart/pixel;sz=1x1;ord=123456789? 

Google Indexed Pages : 467,000

Measures the approximate number of pages on http://www.nba.com/ that have been stored in the Google index. The Google web crawler will visit the website periodically and look for new content and store it in its index. Generally, the more pages a website has within the Google cache, the better.


There are 0 pages from http://www.nba.com/ in the supplemental results area of Google.
These pages will generally not rank on Google.com. A high number of supplemental pages may indicate a problem with the site.

Google Crawl Date : September 15, 2007 @ 09:29 PM

Google will periodically crawl websites looking for new and updated content. In general, it is desired to have the frequency with which Google crawls a site to be higher, rather than lower. Sites that get crawled more often have more frequent updates and more authority.

Conversion Methods

The WebSite grader attempts to measure both the ability for a website to attract traffic and the ability to convert that traffic into qualified leads and prospects. The software searches for common conversion mechanisms such as "calls to action". Examples include RSS feeds, email subscription forms and other ways that site visitors can express interest in the offering.

Inbound Links

One of the most important measures for a website is how many other sites are linking to it. The more links the better.
Links Summary

Google : 24,700
Yahoo : 5,165,680

Technorati Ranking : N/A

Technorati is a popular website ranking service. It measures the popularity of a given website as compared to all other sites that have been submitted to its system.

This website currently has a Technorati ranking of N/A.

del.icio.us bookmarks : 23

del.icio.us is a web-based bookmarking site. Delicious users save their bookmarks on the website so they can access them from any browser. A website that has many users bookmarking it is generally popular and will get more traffic. http://www.nba.com/ has about 23 bookmarks stored.

Alexa Traffic Ranking : 314

Alexa is an online service that measures the approximate traffic for millions of sites on the Internet.

The website http://www.nba.com/ has a ranking of 314. This means that it is the 314th most trafficed site on the web -- as measured by Alexa.

Readability Level : 11th Grade

This score measures the approximate level of education necessary to read and understand the web page content. In most cases, the content should be made to be simple so that a majority of the target audience can understand it.

digg.com Submission Summary

The website www.nba.com has had 100 articles submitted to digg.com. These articles received a total of 3514 diggs (votes) and 6 of these articles made it to the front page of digg.com.

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