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Blog Grader — grade any post out of 100.
Paste a URL. Get an instant grade across the six things that decide whether a post gets read, ranked, and cited — no sign-up, no keyword to type.
The six things we grade.
Google and AI engines now reward the same thing a good editor always has: writing that genuinely helps the reader. Each category speaks plainly — the SEO machinery sits underneath.
Helpful
Does it actually answer the question, fully?
Depth, an answer-first opening, real topic coverage — the things that decide whether a reader leaves satisfied or keeps Googling.
Findable
Can people discover it in search?
Keyword in the title, H1 and slug, a clean heading ladder, a 150–160 character meta description, internal and external links, image alt text.
Readable
Is it easy and pleasant to read?
Reading-ease score, scannable lists and subheads, and paragraphs short enough to survive a phone screen.
Quotable
Will answer boxes and AI engines cite it?
Concrete stats, named people and products, question-style subheads, and Article or FAQ schema — the units AI engines lift verbatim.
Voice
Does it read like real, considered writing?
Sentence variety, vocabulary range, em-dash rhythm, and a machine-phrase blocklist. Well-crafted AI scores high here; lazy filler scores low.
Trustworthy
Does it show real expertise and sources?
Outbound citations to authoritative sources, a clear author byline, a balanced view, and none of the hype patterns that read as spam.
Questions about the Blog Grader.
- Is the Blog Grader really free?
- Yes. Paste a URL, get a grade. No account, no credit card, no email. The grading runs on rules — there is no AI cost per check — so there is nothing to gate.
- Do I have to enter a focus keyword?
- No. Most tools make you type the focus keyword; the Blog Grader infers it from the post's title, headline, slug, and body, then lets you correct it with one click and re-grades instantly.
- How is the grade calculated?
- Every post is scored against six reader-first categories — Helpful, Findable, Readable, Quotable, Voice, and Trustworthy — using the URL-observable subset of the same 100-point rubric Blog Hands holds its own posts to. The content categories carry the most weight, because genuinely useful writing is what readers, Google, and AI all reward.
- What does the Blog Grader not check?
- It grades the post's intrinsic quality, not topic-coverage against the pages currently ranking. It does not fact-check claims, detect hallucinations, or verify an author's credentials. Anything it can't observe from the page is marked "not graded" rather than guessed.
- Why would an AI-writing company flag "AI voice"?
- Because the Voice category measures craft, not origin. Well-tuned AI writing — varied sentences, a real point of view, no filler clichés — scores high. The category catches lazy filler whether a human or a machine wrote it.