Website Grade99out of 100HubSpot's Website Grader Report

December 26, 2007 at 6:46 PM
www.hds.com

A website grade of 99/100 for www.hds.com means that of the hundreds of thousands of websites that have previously been evaluated, 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 50 different variables, including search engine data, website structure, approximate traffic, site performance, and others.

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I. On-Page SEO

On-Page SEO is the process of placing your selected keywords in the right places on your web pages. On-page SEO involves changing page titles, headings, content, and URLs to improve search engine rankings.

A. META Data

To learn more about what meta-data is and why it is important, take a look at this article.

Title : Hitachi Data Systems: Services Oriented Storage Solutions (SOSS),Storage Virtualization,NAS,SAN
Description : Hitachi Data Systems develops and delivers services oriented storage solutions (SOSS), which align business and IT in enterprise, midsize and small organizations. Hitachi Data Systems storage virtualization, tiered storage, storage management, archiving and data protection solutions overcome challenges such as business continuity (BC), disaster recovery (DR), information lifecycle management (ILM) and storage consolidation
Meta Keywords : service oriented storage solutions, eco-friendly, storage virtualization, green storage, smb, san, nas, soss, uspv, software, storage arrays, disaster recovery, fibre channel, backup, data recovery, storage systems, storage area networks, network attached storage, storage area management, business continuity, storage management, data life cycle, raid, data consolidation, virtualization, data security, device manager, tuning manager, resource manager, data migration, volume migration, cross-os file exchange, compatible mirroring, compatible replication, copy-on-write snapshot, cross-system copy, data retention utility, database validator, performance monitor, server priority manager, serverless backup enabler, virtual partition manager, path provisioning, qos, application optimized, universal storage platform, universal replicator, universal star network, crossbar switch architecture, virtual storage, serial ata

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 51 keywords in the meta-data.

B. 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.

Total headings found : 1. 1 H1 Tags  See details.
C. 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.

Too Many Images Found

Having many images on the web page means the user has to wait longer to view your page. This web page has 14 images.

It's usually better to have fewer or smaller images. Sometimes simply resizing your images will make them smaller in size, and your web page will load faster.

Total images found: 14.All of your images have ALT text See details.
D. Interior Page Analysis (3 of 3 Pages Processed)
PageKeywordsDescription
Hitachi Data Systems: Services Oriented Storage S..service oriented storage solutions,eco-friendly,st..Hitachi Data Systems develops and delivers service..
Hitachi Data Systems: Services Oriented Storage S..service oriented storage solutions,eco-friendly,st..Hitachi Data Systems develops and delivers service..
Hitachi Data Systems: Services Oriented Storage S..service oriented storage solutions,eco-friendly,st..Hitachi Data Systems develops and delivers service..
E. Readability Level: Advanced / Doctoral Degree

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.

II. Off-Page SEO

A. Domain Info
Domain Age : 10 years, 6 months, 6 days
Days To Expiration : 3 years, 5 months, 23 days

The domain registration will expire in more than one year.

The domain registration for this site will expire within the next two years.

We would suggest renewing this domain with your registrar. Google and other search engines may penalize websites with domains that are set to expire soon. The reason for this is that many spam sites are often registered for short periods of time. Most registrars support paying upfront for several years and the cost is usually only about $10-$20 per year, so it is generally worth it.

Permanent Redirect Not Found

Search engines often regard www.hds.com and hds.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.hds.com and others to hds.com) For example, www.hds.com seems to have 273,755 inbound links whereas hds.com has 288,715 inbound links. By correctly configuring a permanent 301 redirect, the search rankings might improve as all inbound links are correctly counted for the website.

Most experts agree that you should register your domain for a long time, because search engines factor domain "stability" when looking at your pages.

B. 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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C. Google Indexed Pages: 8,080

Measures the approximate number of pages on www.hds.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.

D. Last Google Crawl Date: December 24, 2007 @ 04:07 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.

E. Inbound Links: 273,755

One of the most important measures for a website is how many other sites are linking to it. The more links the better. Having links to your company website from authoratative resources on the Internet helps you rank higher in search engines since these links are an indication that your website is trustworthy and contains good content.

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III. Blogosphere

Blogging makes sense from a marketing perspective. You'll be leveraging the shift from outbound to inbound marketing and interacting with your customers in new ways. A blog lets you meet your customers more directly than sending out brochures or an email campaign. It changes your website from a brochure that most people look at once to something that people interact with and come back to.

A. Blog Analysis

Blogging is a great way to reach your target audience with your thoughts, opinions, and offerings on relevant topics.

Blog Not Found

B. Blog Ranking: Not Ranked

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

This blog currently is not in the Technorati system. You should sign up and submit your blog on technorati.com, it's free.

C. Subscription Methods

If you have a blog, it needs to be discoverable so that people can subscribe to your blog easily. The software searches for common subscription methods like an RSS feed or an email subscription form.

RSS Feed Found

An RSS feed was detected in this web page. The feed link was correctly setup so that it can be auto-detected by feed readers and contemporary browsers.

The feed URL for this site is http://feeds.hds.com/hds/hu-yoshida

BlogLines, a leading RSS reader reports about 57 subscribers to the feed through their system. This is usually a small fraction of the total subscribers to the feed.

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IV. Social Mediasphere

Making sure that your company has an extensive web presence outside of your own website is important. It increases the chances that your prospects will find your company when they are online since there are more webpages that contain information about your company.

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. www.hds.com has 23 bookmarks stored.

B. Digg.com Submission Summary

The website www.hds.com has 0 articles submitted to digg.com. These articles received a total of 0 diggs (votes) and 0 of these articles made it to the front page of digg.com.

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V. Competitive Intelligence

A. Competing Websites
SiteWebsite GradeGoogle Page RankTraffic RankBlog RankInbound Linksdel.icio.us BookmarksGoogle Indexed Pages
www.hds.com997192,1000273,755238,080
emc.com98835,7120211,3560162,000
www.netapp.com99832,0640191,4011114,410
B. Historical Data Available

www.hds.com has been previously processed by HubSpot's Website Grader. We have approximately 3 data points for this site dating back to 10/21/2007.

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