SpyderMate Rules!
SpyderMate Rules!
Sep 04I have recently become a big fan of SpyderMate.com
This free tool gives a 30,000 foot SEO view of a given web site. Simple, Quick and Free.
It distills what it is able to find via crawling a site down into a numeric score on a scale of 0-100. This is called the SpyderRating.
It also uses a distinctive radar graph showing some dimensions of optimization. It has been useful to turn a web site owner loose with this information as an introduction to basic SEO. I have seen some prospective clients improve their score 20 points or so, and then call us back in a few days and ask: “Hey, what’s next?” Its like seeing a kid who doesn’t read well get turned on to the Harry Potter books.
A big public thanks to the folks at www.mentormate.com for creating this cool tool and the resulting enthusiasm among those we show it to. Below is a sample SpyderRating for a project I worked on in August and a SpyderRating for a blog I admire.