See Your Site As The Search Engines Do
Writing by Nick Stamoulis on Friday, November 6, 2009 Comments (2)
How do the search engines see your site – do you know? Search engines do not see your site with the same eyes as your visitors. All the search engine sees is the code that goes behind the rendering of each page in a browser. Is it important to know how the search engine views your site?
Yes and no. You can do a quick check using any number of tools including the view source option in your browser. But is that how the search engine sees the page? If you have a Webmaster Tools account then Google is Lab trialing a Googlebot option that displays the page as Google sees it.
It’s an easy way to check the pages meta tags and to see how high in the code the pages content starts. You can also do a quick visual check of anchors and tags within your content.
While your looking at the Lab section in Google Webmaster Tools, you can also check your site for any malware problems – another lab function that is being trialled through Webmaster Tools. Mind you – if the tool does indicate malware then you can guarantee Google will have already suspended your search result listings. Not to worry, once you remove the malware problem you can use the same set of tools to request reinclusion – not bad for a free set of tools.
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Comment by Lorraine
Made Thursday, 3 of December , 2009 at 8:44 pm
This is extremely useful information to have. Thanks Nick. You always give great tips.
LG
Comment by Nick Stamoulis
Made Friday, 4 of December , 2009 at 7:45 am
Thanks for the comment Lorraine!
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