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See Your Site Like a Search Engine Spider

When you want to check out what you’ve done on your web page to see if it is search engine friendly, you can use this smart online tool to take a peak.

Why is this tool valuable, if you are using scripts, Ajax, spry, layers, or grids in the implementation of your website, sometimes you need to know can a search engine see the content of what I am doing? This online tools shows you what a search engine will see.

If you didn’t think that keyword density was important on your page, run your own page in the tool and you will see that all you see is text, text from your text-based navigation, text from your content, and your meta tags. You won’t see JavaScripted items, but you will see the text included from the links.

One thing that I found today that I will be correcting is that I do not have a space at the end of my navigation links and so when the spider sees my site, the see words run together instead of separate words in some cases. Wow, very valuable especially when the words are top keyword which are important for the spider to see and help with your organic position.

Run your own site through and see what you see. Remember to enter your URL in the syntax with the http:// in front of it. Enjoy!

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Spidey Glasses to See Your Site With

Now you can put on spidey glasses and see just what the search engine spiders see when they look at your web page with this online tool.

This tool is valuable as you will be able to see if the code you have in a show-hide layer is visible, if you have the spacing set up properly in your navigation, and what a spider sees right when they hit your page. If you did not think that keyword density was important, you will after you review your results.

All a spider sees is text! Now here’s the test, what does the spider see on a Flash site? Nothing! Enter in http://www.katybar.com in the tool. Then visit the site, you will see that all the spider has indexed is the text that has been added below the Flash image.

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What Do Search Engine Spiders See?

Now you can put on spidey glasses and see just what the search engine spiders see when they look at your web page with this online tool.

This tool is valuable as you will be able to see if the code you have in a show-hide layer is visible, if you have the spacing set up properly in your navigation, and what a spider sees right when they hit your page. If you did not think that keyword density was important, you will after you review your results.

All a spider sees is text! Now here’s the test, what does the spider see on a Flash site? Nothing! Enter in http://www.katybar.com in the tool. Then visit the site, you will see that all the spider has indexed is the text that has been added below the Flash image.