I’m always interested in SEO and ways to get my sites to rank higher in search engines, and if you have even one site or blog, you should be, too.

This morning, John Chow posted an article about a relatively new site called WebSiteGrader.com. I checked my score and it came out a lousy 55! I fixed a couple problem areas (problems Yahoo has, too, according to this tool) and my score hit 70. I decided to pit the top 10 sites on the Internet (according to Alexa) against each other for the highest grade, and I’m throwing JoeTech.com in to the mix for fun.

I’ll stop rambling and give you the rundown of the top 10 sites plus my grade:

1. Yahoo, grade: 79
- No description found
- No keywords found
- Google page rank: 10
- Technorati rank: n/a
- Google inbound links: n/a
- Yahoo inbound links: n/a
- Delicious saved count: n/a
- Google indexed pages: 407 (really?)
- Readability level: 2nd grade

2. MSN, grade: 95
- No keywords found
- Google page rank: 8
- Technorati rank: n/a
- Google inbound links: n/a
- Yahoo inbound links: n/a
- Delicious saved count: n/a
- Google indexed pages: 426
- Readability level: 7th grade

3. Google, grade: 84
- No description found
- No keywords found
- Google page rank: 10
- Technorati rank: n/a
- Google inbound links: n/a
- Yahoo inbound links: n/a
- Delicious saved count: n/a
- Google indexed pages: 525,000 (go figure)
- Readability level: Advanced Degree (PhD)

4. YouTube, grade: 96
- 301 permanent redirect not found
- Google page rank: 8
- Technorati rank: n/a
- Google inbound links: n/a
- Yahoo inbound links: n/a
- Delicious saved count: n/a
- Google indexed pages: 2,660,000
- Readability level: 4th grade

5. Live.com, grade: 87
- No keywords found
- Google page rank: 8
- Technorati rank: n/a
- Google inbound links: n/a
- Yahoo inbound links: n/a
- Delicious saved count: n/a
- Google indexed pages: 485
- Readability level: 10th grade

6. MySpace, grade: 85
- No description found
- High number of keywords
- Google page rank: 8
- Technorati rank: n/a
- Google inbound links: n/a
- Yahoo inbound links: n/a
- Delicious saved count: n/a
- Google indexed pages: 2,060,000
- Readability level: College Graduate

7. Orkut, grade: 77
- No description found
- No keywords found
- Google page rank: 8
- Technorati rank: n/a
- Google inbound links: n/a
- Yahoo inbound links: n/a
- Delicious saved count: n/a
- Google indexed pages: 608
- Readability level: Advanced Degree (PhD)

8. Baidu, grade: 77
- No description found
- No keywords found
- 301 permanent redirect not found
- Google page rank: 7
- Technorati rank: n/a
- Google inbound links: n/a
- Yahoo inbound links: n/a
- Delicious saved count: n/a
- Google indexed pages: 3,280
- Readability level: Advanced Degree (PhD)

9. Wikipedia, grade: 76
- No description found
- No keywords found
- 301 permanent redirect not found
- Google page rank: 8
- Technorati rank: n/a
- Google inbound links: n/a
- Yahoo inbound links: n/a
- Delicious saved count: n/a
- Google indexed pages: 441 (that is so very wrong)
- Readability level: 12th grade

10. Facebook, grade: 93
- No keywords found
- Google page rank: 8
- Technorati rank: n/a
- Google inbound links: n/a
- Yahoo inbound links: n/a
- Delicious saved count: n/a
- Google indexed pages: 37,700
- Readability level: 9th grade

517,809. Joe Tech, grade: 70
- High number of META keywords
- Domain expires within a year
- 301 permanent redirect not found
- Google page rank: 5
- Technorati rank: 172,587
- Google inbound links: n/a
- Yahoo inbound links: n/a
- Delicious saved count: n/a
- Google indexed pages: 206
- Readability level: 5th grade

Where does your site rank?

The seo comparison showing the failure of some of the top sites raises the concern of getting up to the right search engine optimization strategy. For the major e-commerce oriented sites spending the hefty sums on online advertising are being closely evaluated to keep a track of effective internet marketing campaign. On the contrary, the web sites focusing more on click- throughs than conversion rate seem to be content with email marketing than attempting at some other form of internet network marketing. In either case, being aware of the various marketing options including adsense marketing by Google which is an off-shoot of pay per click advertisement pays off to any marketer.