WebSite Grade For www.treehugger.com : 93/100 (September 30, 2007)

A website grade of 93 for www.treehugger.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 93% 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.treehugger.com
Website Grade93
Google Page Rank7
Alexa RankN/A
Technorati Rank17
Google Inbound Links20,000
Yahoo Inbound Links1,296,255
Delicious Saved Count4,797
Google Indexed Pages23,800

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 : TreeHugger
Description : -- Missing --
Meta Keywords : -- Missing --
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.
Meta-Keywords Not Found

There were no keywords detected in the meta-data of the website.

Though Google does not seem to place high relevance on meta keywords to determine the content of a website, other engines like Yahoo! may still look at these.

Since it doesn't hurt you to have meta-keywords, we'd suggest going ahead and adding them to the page.
Page Description Not Found

The HTML for the page does not contain a description element in the meta-data.

The description is used by search engines both for indexing and possibly for determing what summary to show for your page when it matches a search queyr. By not having a description, the site is missing out on an important search engine optimization (SEO) tactic.
Website seems to be using Google Analytics

Domain Info

Registrar : TUCOWS INC.
Registered On : April 29, 2002 @ 12:00 AM
Domain Age (days) : 1,980
Expires On : April 29, 2012 @ 12:00 AM
Days To Expiration : 1,672
Permanent Redirect Not Found

Search engines often regard www.treehugger.com and treehugger.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 www.treehugger.com and others to treehugger.com) For example, www.treehugger.com seems to have 1,296,255 inbound links whereas treehugger.com has 1,565,669 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 TypeText
First-Level (H1)Keep Rolling. Hit the Next Page >
Second-Level (H2)We add over 24 posts each dayto our archive of over 10,000. For example...
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Third-Level (H3)DIY: Minimalist Gourd Birdhouse
Third-Level (H3)Quote of the Day: D.H. Lawrence on the Magnificence of Whales
Third-Level (H3)Solar Tree: New Street Lighting from Ross Lovegrove
Third-Level (H3)Air New Zealand Biofuelling Through The High Skies
Third-Level (H3)The TH Interview: Michael Ford, CEO of ChooseRenewables
Third-Level (H3)Sunpark: Moving Forward on Canada's First Solar Park
Third-Level (H3)Latest TH Radio
Third-Level (H3)Latest THTV
Third-Level (H3)Two Years Ago In TreeHugger: The $100 Laptop "Almost a Reality"
Third-Level (H3)The Green Parent October/November: The Learning Special
Third-Level (H3)VIDEO S&WFF: Dream People of the Amazon
Third-Level (H3)An Ultrathin, Anime-Inspired, Protein-Based Computer Memory Chip
Third-Level (H3)Clinton Global Initiative Highlights: Energy & Climate Change
Third-Level (H3)Seeding is Believing in Vermont
Third-Level (H3)Toyota Fuel Cell Hybrid In The Lead (Apparently)
Third-Level (H3)Wearing a Piece of the Titanic
Third-Level (H3)One Year Ago in TH: LEDs on the Go, Camouflage is the New Green + More
Third-Level (H3)Real Treehuggers Support Adding LNG Terminals
Third-Level (H3)TreeHugger Discussion Forums
Third-Level (H3)Critical Mass Turns 15
Third-Level (H3)TreeHugger Radio: Mexico High on Greenhouse Gasses, Bush’s Climate Plan, and the Art of the Superfund Site
Third-Level (H3)Trinity Glass - A Merger for Beautiful Countertops
Third-Level (H3)Agrilandia: Italian Organic Farming in China
Third-Level (H3)Not Blanche: An "All-night Public-space Thing"
Third-Level (H3)Clinton Global Initiative Highlights: Strategies to Improve Maternal, Newborn & Child Health

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.
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Google Indexed Pages : 23,800

Measures the approximate number of pages on http://www.treehugger.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.treehugger.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 29, 2007 @ 10:10 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.
RSS Feed Not Discovered

One of the best ways to get regular visitors to a website is to support an RSS feed.

RSS allows users to subscribe to site content. With RSS, users can automatically be notified when the site is updated. RSS is an industry standard. There are a variety of free RSS applications available that let site visitors subscribe and consume content.

Though it is possible this site has RSS elsewhere on the site, it is best to make the feed discoverable on the home page itself.

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 : 20,000
Yahoo : 1,296,255

Technorati Ranking : 17

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 17.

del.icio.us bookmarks : 4,797

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.treehugger.com/ has about 4,797 bookmarks stored.

Alexa Traffic Ranking : N/A

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

Currently, the site http://www.treehugger.com/ is not being tracked by Alexa. This is usually the case if the site is relatively new or if the traffic level is not high enough to place it in the top million or so sites.

Readability Level : Advanced Degree (PhD)

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.treehugger.com has had 100 articles submitted to digg.com. These articles received a total of 6916 diggs (votes) and 11 of these articles made it to the front page of digg.com.

Historical Data Available

The website www.treehugger.com has been previously processed by Website Grader. There are approximately 7 data points in our database, dating back to 5/23/2007 .
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