Comments on: First report: Hubspot’s Website Grader for BonFX http://bonfx.com/first-report-hubspots-website-grader-for-bonfx/ Graphic Design Blog & Publisher / Font Combinations Wed, 09 May 2012 08:12:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Douglas Bonneville http://bonfx.com/first-report-hubspots-website-grader-for-bonfx/comment-page-1/#comment-1006 Douglas Bonneville Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:27:34 +0000 http://bonfx.com/?p=376#comment-1006 As of today, my grader score is 98.3. It seems from an SEO perspective, based on the Grade analysis of just the code and content, this <b>graphic design blog</b> is going pretty good. It's also clear now that after 4 months of blogging from scratch here at bonfx.com, that getting inbound links is the hardest thing to do. More good content and promotion then! We are getting close to 50,000 unique visitors too. Probably another few weeks. As of today, my grader score is 98.3. It seems from an SEO perspective, based on the Grade analysis of just the code and content, this graphic design blog is going pretty good. It’s also clear now that after 4 months of blogging from scratch here at bonfx.com, that getting inbound links is the hardest thing to do. More good content and promotion then! We are getting close to 50,000 unique visitors too. Probably another few weeks.

]]> By: Douglas Bonneville http://bonfx.com/first-report-hubspots-website-grader-for-bonfx/comment-page-1/#comment-358 Douglas Bonneville Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:02:46 +0000 http://bonfx.com/?p=376#comment-358 Up to 97 as of today. I've mainly gotten into a groove with content and SEO and haven't changed much on the site: http://websitegrader.com/site/bonfx.com Maybe that last 2.9 percent is for inbound links, which is the critical thing I'm missing. Over the next few months, I'm going to focus on "logo design" with subsets like resources and process examples, "logo designer", "freelance graphic designer", and continue interesting posts regarding typefaces, fonts, and typography. Up to 97 as of today. I’ve mainly gotten into a groove with content and SEO and haven’t changed much on the site:

http://websitegrader.com/site/bonfx.com

Maybe that last 2.9 percent is for inbound links, which is the critical thing I’m missing. Over the next few months, I’m going to focus on “logo design” with subsets like resources and process examples, “logo designer”, “freelance graphic designer”, and continue interesting posts regarding typefaces, fonts, and typography.

]]> By: Douglas Bonneville http://bonfx.com/first-report-hubspots-website-grader-for-bonfx/comment-page-1/#comment-111 Douglas Bonneville Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:35:36 +0000 http://bonfx.com/?p=376#comment-111 Up to 96.4 and counting. Did more optimizing, robots.txt updates, writing and headline tweaking in Theme Hybrid. All the relevant SEO settings are in there! Check it out... Up to 96.4 and counting. Did more optimizing, robots.txt updates, writing and headline tweaking in Theme Hybrid. All the relevant SEO settings are in there! Check it out…

]]> By: Doug Bonneville http://bonfx.com/first-report-hubspots-website-grader-for-bonfx/comment-page-1/#comment-73 Doug Bonneville Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:25:14 +0000 http://bonfx.com/?p=376#comment-73 Up to 93 - I keep tweaking, reading, learning, working, writing, but mostly writing. I figure if I'm going to spend so much time writing, I'm going to write on the best paper possible with the best ink possible, which would be maybe a 98 score or higher :) Up to 93 – I keep tweaking, reading, learning, working, writing, but mostly writing.

I figure if I’m going to spend so much time writing, I’m going to write on the best paper possible with the best ink possible, which would be maybe a 98 score or higher :)

]]> By: Douglas Bonneville http://bonfx.com/first-report-hubspots-website-grader-for-bonfx/comment-page-1/#comment-48 Douglas Bonneville Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:53:43 +0000 http://bonfx.com/?p=376#comment-48 UPDATE 2: I did a few more things, like join a LinkedIn Group, update my profile there, fix some tags, get a few more articles in Twitter and Digg, and started using Flickr to host my images. Most of what I did won't affect things for a few weeks, so with more content I hope to see a bigger bump and a PR go to 5 up from the 4 I currently have. My score is now a 92, up from 90 a few days ago. UPDATE 2: I did a few more things, like join a LinkedIn Group, update my profile there, fix some tags, get a few more articles in Twitter and Digg, and started using Flickr to host my images. Most of what I did won’t affect things for a few weeks, so with more content I hope to see a bigger bump and a PR go to 5 up from the 4 I currently have.

My score is now a 92, up from 90 a few days ago.

]]> By: Douglas Bonneville http://bonfx.com/first-report-hubspots-website-grader-for-bonfx/comment-page-1/#comment-45 Douglas Bonneville Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:00:48 +0000 http://bonfx.com/?p=376#comment-45 UPDATE: I did a few of the items on the list above and moved my score from 83 to 90: - Shortened title and description - Increased length of ownership on my domain to 9 years out - Shortened some sentences and added a few shorter posts - Added portfolio with properly named and tagged images relating to my area of interest (logo design and graphic design) This took a few hours, but it was worth it as I continue to follow the rules and do what those who know more than me about SEO have said to do. Now I just need about 90,000 inbound links. Back in a few! UPDATE: I did a few of the items on the list above and moved my score from 83 to 90:

- Shortened title and description
- Increased length of ownership on my domain to 9 years out
- Shortened some sentences and added a few shorter posts
- Added portfolio with properly named and tagged images relating to my area of interest (logo design and graphic design)

This took a few hours, but it was worth it as I continue to follow the rules and do what those who know more than me about SEO have said to do.

Now I just need about 90,000 inbound links. Back in a few!

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