Through the eyes of The Google-bot.
If you were to see what the Google-bot does, what would that be? Well this seems to be something everyone is concern about, mostly because that is what determines how "highly" Google thinks of you. There are a couple of online tools ( this and this ) which let you see what search engines actually read off your site.
Unfortunately this generates a huge pile of text that looks something like this:Spidered Text :
Search Me skip to main | skip to sidebar Search Me Search - from Various Angles Friday, February 16, 2007 John Battelle on a Community driven Yahoo! Pipes project: Read Tim O'Reilly. Posted by Harish TM at 4:05 AM In my previous post I tried to start a community initiative for creating services based on Yahoo! pipes. I tried a couple of different approaches to kick start this project and when I failed, I decided to try to mail a couple of people
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Yes - the plain text version of the site. So who cares?
Maybe if you were paid to do some kind of SEO you would, but to the rest of us this is still just a long and cluttered piece of text. But this becomes interesting when you push it through some kind of a visualization tool such as TagCrowd.TagCrowd is a web application for visualizing word frequencies in any user-supplied text by creating what is popularly known as a tag cloud.
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Or, you can just get Lynx...
Well this is one of the reason CSS is gaining so much importance from SEO point of view too. In CSS you can place 'important' content right at the top so the spider read that first instead of reading your tables in the order you put them down in.
Anyway seeing the results of how a spider would view my pages, I realised that I should optimize my headlines some more (on the blog entries) but the thing about leaving them a little ambiguous is so that they sound a little more interesting for human readers (if any).
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