WebSite Grade For espn.go.com : 99/100 (September 16, 2007)
A website grade of 99 for espn.go.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.The software is constantly being upgraded and the algorithm enhanced. The number of potential recommendations provided by the tool is also increasing frequently. Please check back often.
Score Summary
| Section | espn.go.com |
|---|---|
| Website Grade | 99 |
| Google Page Rank | 8 |
| Alexa Rank | 48 |
| Technorati Rank | N/A |
| Google Inbound Links | 59,600 |
| Yahoo Inbound Links | 7,633,876 |
| Delicious Saved Count | 75 |
| Google Indexed Pages | 1,080 |
Google PageRank : 8
"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:SEO for Small Business Executives: Understanding the Magic Of Meta-Data
| Title : | ESPN: The Worldwide Leader In Sports |
| Description : | ESPN.com provides comprehensive sports coverage. Complete sports information including NFL, MLB, NBA, College Football, College Basketball scores and news. |
| Meta Keywords : | espn.com, espn, espn2, espnews, espn classic, espnu, insider, sports scores, sports news, mlb scores, nfl scores, nba scores, nhl scores, college football scores, college basketball scores, sports videos, sports information, fantasy sports, fantasy games, fantasy football, fantasy baseball |
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.
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 21 keywords in the meta-data.
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 21 keywords in the meta-data.
Domain Info
| Registrar : | NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC. |
| Registered On : | October 04, 1994 @ 12:00 AM |
| Domain Age (days) : | 4,730 |
| Expires On : | October 03, 2009 @ 12:00 AM |
| Days To Expiration : | 747 |
Permanent Redirect Not Found
Search engines often regard espn.go.com and www.espn.go.com as two different websites unless you take specific measures to signal to them that they are the same site.
The best way to handle this situation is to setup what is known as a permanent redirect (or a "301" redirect) from one of these sites to the other. This way, any links that are pointing to the secondary site benefit the primary site, from an SEO perspective.
We could not detect a permanent redirect for this site, so it may be experiencing the negative effects of link fragmentation (some of the inbound links may point to espn.go.com and others to www.espn.go.com) For example, espn.go.com seems to have 7,633,876 inbound links whereas www.espn.go.com has 77,775 inbound links. By correctly configuring a permanent 301 redirect, the search rankings might improve as all inbound links are correctly counted for the website.
Search engines often regard espn.go.com and www.espn.go.com as two different websites unless you take specific measures to signal to them that they are the same site.
The best way to handle this situation is to setup what is known as a permanent redirect (or a "301" redirect) from one of these sites to the other. This way, any links that are pointing to the secondary site benefit the primary site, from an SEO perspective.
We could not detect a permanent redirect for this site, so it may be experiencing the negative effects of link fragmentation (some of the inbound links may point to espn.go.com and others to www.espn.go.com) For example, espn.go.com seems to have 7,633,876 inbound links whereas www.espn.go.com has 77,775 inbound links. By correctly configuring a permanent 301 redirect, the search rankings might improve as all inbound links are correctly counted for the website.
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
| Heading Type | Text |
|---|---|
| First-Level (H1) | We Spy ... AFC's Best |
| First-Level (H1) | Greg Oden |
| First-Level (H1) | Wrestling |
| First-Level (H1) | Fantasy Football |
| First-Level (H1) | E-mail | Archive Le Anne Schreiber: Ombudsman |
| First-Level (H1) | Tiger's Cup Runneth Over |
| First-Level (H1) | Bell Wants Out |
| First-Level (H1) | BILL SIMMONS: The Sports Guy |
| First-Level (H1) | National Voice: Gene Wojciechowski |
| First-Level (H1) | National Voice: Pat Forde |
| First-Level (H1) | National Voice: Jemele Hill |
| First-Level (H1) | Fan Favorites |
| First-Level (H1) | Contests and Special Sections |
| Second-Level (H2) | More From Insider |
| Third-Level (H3) | Sunday's Featured Chats! |
| Third-Level (H3) | Full ESPN Listings |
| Third-Level (H3) | Full ESPN2 Listings |
| Third-Level (H3) | Good luck Daunte, especially since you have had more surgeries than touchdown passes the last couple years. |
More than one H1 tag found
More than one primary heading tags (H1 tags) have been found on the page. Though this is not a critical issue, it is unusual for a web page to contain more than one heading tag. We suggest having a single primary heading per page
More than one primary heading tags (H1 tags) have been found on the page. Though this is not a critical issue, it is unusual for a web page to contain more than one heading tag. We suggest having a single primary heading per 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
| URL | Text |
|---|---|
| http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/N4568.ESPN.com/B2404916.2;abr=!ie4;abr=!ie5;sz=728x90;ord=2007.09.16.10.57.29? | Click Here |
| http://assets.espn.go.com/i/tinyin.gif | Insider |
| http://assets.espn.go.com/i/design07/mast/tinyin.gif | Insider |
| http://assets.espn.go.com/i/design07/mast/outboundlink.gif | External Link |
| http://adsatt.espn.go.com/ad/sponsors/ESPN_In_House_Marketing/Aug_2007/espn-230x110-0068.gif | |
| http://assets.espn.go.com/i/espnradio/07/index/h_podcast.png | |
| http://assets.espn.go.com/i/espnradio/podcast/pti_224.jpg | |
| http://assets.espn.go.com/i/espnradio/05/listen.gif | |
| http://assets.espn.go.com/i/fp/07/whats_hot_hdr.jpg | What's Hot |
| http://assets.espn.go.com/photo/2007/whatshot/worldcup_wh.jpg | Women's |
| http://adsatt.espn.go.com/ad/sponsors/toyota/Sep_2007/toyo-242x50-0001.jpg | |
| http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/N2724.ESPNOutdoorscom/B2237849.9;sz=1x1;ord=2007.09.16.10.57.29 | |
| http://assets.espn.go.com/photo/2007/0914/nfl_a_chargerspatriots_412.jpg | Chargers and Patriots |
| http://assets.espn.go.com/i/ls.gif | Live |
| http://assets.espn.go.com/photo/2007/0914/nba_panel_134.jpg | Sam Bowie, Greg Oden, Bill Walton |
| http://assets.espn.go.com/photo/2007/0912/espn_roids_134.jpg | Lex Luger, Chris Benoit |
| http://assets.espn.go.com/photo/2007/0914/nfl_g_rjohnson_134.jpg | Rudi Johnson |
| http://assets.espn.go.com/i/in.gif | Insider |
| http://log.go.com/log?srvc=sz&addata=2672:65:273945:65&target=4492;42;&method=GET&cap=&svr=espn.go.com&host=espn.go.com&guid=33075027-4B00-4F0B-A484-114DC4D6AA1C&goto=http://adsatt.espn.go.com/ad/sponsors/ESPN_In_House_Marketing/Jan_2007/espn-1x1-0456.gif | |
| http://assets.espn.go.com/photo/2007/0914/pga_g_woods_65.jpg | Tiger Woods |
| http://assets.espn.go.com/i/m_arrow.gif | ESPN Video |
| http://assets.espn.go.com/i/fp/07/icon_rss.gif | RSS |
| http://assets.espn.go.com/i/nba/profiles/players/65x90/3570.jpg | |
| http://assets.espn.go.com/i/fp/07/icon_insiderMini.gif | Insider |
| http://assets.espn.go.com/i/fp/07/ontv/ontv_espn.jpg | ESPN |
| http://assets.espn.go.com/i/fp/07/ontv/ontv_espn2.jpg | ESPN2 |
| http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/N3336.ESPN/B2440687;abr=!ie4;abr=!ie5;sz=308x50;ord=2007.09.16.10.57.29? | Click Here |
| http://assets.espn.go.com/i/fp/07/page2_mod_logo.jpg | Page 2 |
| http://assets.espn.go.com/i/fp/07/dropQuote.gif | |
| http://assets.espn.go.com/i/fp/07/dropQuoteEnd.gif |
Google Indexed Pages : 1,080
Measures the approximate number of pages on http://espn.go.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.Google Crawl Date : September 15, 2007 @ 09:44 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 : | 59,600 |
| Yahoo : | 7,633,876 |
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 : 75
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://espn.go.com/ has about 75 bookmarks stored.Alexa Traffic Ranking : 48
Alexa is an online service that measures the approximate traffic for millions of sites on the Internet.The website http://espn.go.com/ has a ranking of 48. This means that it is the 48th most trafficed site on the web -- as measured by Alexa.
Readability Level : 5th 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 espn.go.com has had 100 articles submitted to digg.com. These articles received a total of 4945 diggs (votes) and 9 of these articles made it to the front page of digg.com.Please Register
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