Spider Perspective to Help SEO

Sky — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:27:41 +0000

Have you always wondered what the Google spiders see when they search your site? You may have a time or two just to figure out how to set up the site to be friendlier to the bots. If you have wondered you may not have to worry much longer. Google announced that they will be releasing a tool to show you what the spiders see when they crawl your site.
The new tool is called Fetch as Googlebot. When you put your site through the tool you will be seeing a real time picture of your site from the spider perspective. Fetch will even return the HTML exactly how the spider pulled it. The idea of the new tool is to help you check your site out before you launch it, especially if you have just had a major renovation on the site. You will be able to spot trouble areas, diagnose page problems, and much more.
To use this wonderful tool all you need to do is go to the Dashboard click on Labs and you will see the message there. This is located in the webmaster tools section of Google. The tool is not without problems as there has been one confirmed issue with it. You may see weird characters displayed if you are not encoding your pages with UTF-8 or use non ASCII Characters. Overall though you will find the tool is worth it to help maximise your SEO for users. After all it is about having a user friendly site they can find in the search engines.

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Spider Perspective to Help SEO