WebSite Grade For www.gizmodo.com : 98/100 (October 01, 2007)

A website grade of 98 for www.gizmodo.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 98% 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.gizmodo.com
Website Grade98
Google Page Rank7
Alexa Rank677
Technorati Rank2
Google Inbound Links86,900
Yahoo Inbound Links1,664,190
Delicious Saved Count9,831
Google Indexed Pages1,670

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:

SEO for Small Business Executives: Understanding the Magic Of Meta-Data

Title : Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide
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 : MARKMONITOR INC.
Registered On : July 01, 2002 @ 12:00 AM
Domain Age (days) : 1,918
Expires On : July 01, 2009 @ 12:00 AM
Days To Expiration : 638
Permanent Redirect Not Found

Search engines often regard www.gizmodo.com and gizmodo.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.gizmodo.com and others to gizmodo.com) For example, www.gizmodo.com seems to have 1,664,190 inbound links whereas gizmodo.com has 9,332,500 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)Gizmodo
Second-Level (H2)Video of the Motion-Sensing Wave LED Coffee Table in Action
Second-Level (H2)Kick Some Serious Ass With This Pink Shotgun
Second-Level (H2)Amazing Rube Goldberg Machine Goes On and On, Does Nothing
Second-Level (H2)Schools and Non-Profits Cramping Sprint's WiMax Plans?
Second-Level (H2)What You Missed Last Weekend
Second-Level (H2)Kathy Griffin Talks About Sleeping With Woz on Larry King
Second-Level (H2)LED/Laser Flashlight: You Want Power? Talk to the Hand
Second-Level (H2)Nintendo Not Going to Have Enough Wiis This Holiday Season, and They're Loving It
Second-Level (H2)AT&T Lets You Talk, But Limits What You Say
Second-Level (H2)Digital Card Calculator Spycam Is Sneaky Circa 1985
Second-Level (H2)Ultra High-End Sim2 Grand Cinema C3X 1080 Projector to Ship in November
Second-Level (H2)Radiohead Offers New Album For Whatever You Want to Pay
Second-Level (H2)Soldiers Go Solar
Second-Level (H2)James Randi Offers $1 Million If Audiophiles Can Prove $7250 Speaker Cables Are Better
Second-Level (H2)Diamond-Coated Nokia N95 Costs $24,000 (Limit 10 Per Customer)
Second-Level (H2)Nokia Taunts Apple with New "Open to Anything" N95 Campaign
Third-Level (H3) 
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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

URLText
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http://cache.gawker.com/assets/v4.gizmodo.com/img//texts/contest.gifGizmodo contest
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http://cache.gawker.com/assets/v4.gizmodo.com/img//texts/team.gifGizmodo team
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/v4.gizmodo.com/img/texts/about.gifAbout
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/v4.gizmodo.com/img/texts/syndication.gifSyndication
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/v4.gizmodo.com/img//texts/jobs.gifGizmodo Jobs
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base.v4/img/gawkermedia.pngGawker Media
/assets/base/img/site/www.gizmodo.com/thumb.png 
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http://cache.gawker.com/assets/v4.gizmodo.com/img/flags/flag_gb.gifGizmodo UK Gadget Blog
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/v4.gizmodo.com/img/flags/flag_fr.gifGizmodo FR Gadget Blog
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http://cache.gawker.com/assets/v4.gizmodo.com/img/flags/flag_sp.gifGizmodo SP Gadget Blog
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/v4.gizmodo.com/img/flags/flag_ru.gifGizmodo RU Gadget Blog
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/v4.gizmodo.com/img/flags/flag_jp.gifGizmodo JP Gadget Blog
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/v4.gizmodo.com/img/flags/flag_au.gifGizmodo AU Gadget Blog
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http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2007/10/N95_Diamonds.jpgN95_Diamonds.jpg
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2007/10/smallish_nokia-ad-open.jpgnokia-ad-open.jpg
http://s15.sitemeter.com/meter.asp?site=s15gizmodoSite Meter
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Google Indexed Pages : 1,670

Measures the approximate number of pages on http://www.gizmodo.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.gizmodo.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 30, 2007 @ 09:37 AM

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 : 86,900
Yahoo : 1,664,190

Technorati Ranking : 2

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 2.

del.icio.us bookmarks : 9,831

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.gizmodo.com/ has about 9,831 bookmarks stored.

Alexa Traffic Ranking : 677

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

The website http://www.gizmodo.com/ has a ranking of 677. This means that it is the 677th most trafficed site on the web -- as measured by Alexa.

Readability Level : 8th 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.gizmodo.com has had 100 articles submitted to digg.com. These articles received a total of 2540 diggs (votes) and 2 of these articles made it to the front page of digg.com.

Historical Data Available

The website www.gizmodo.com has been previously processed by Website Grader. There are approximately 14 data points in our database, dating back to 4/6/2007 .
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